From St Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London.
Mark Tully considers the great adventure that faces us as we embark on life in the 21st century. What are the challenges, responsibilities and rewards that will emerge?
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Farmer Steve Adcock nearly sold his land due to the uncertainty and stress of farming life - then the National Forest Scheme made him an offer he could not refuse. He has now become a forester, planting 1,000 trees, and is growing a crop for future generations to enjoy.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news.
Dr Raj Persaud speaks on behalf of a charity which provides care and rehabilitation services to those suffering from mental illness in developing countries.
Donations: Richmond Fellowship International, [address removed] Credit Cards: [number removed]
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
The Rev. Stephen Shipley leads a seasonal meditation from Hawksyard Priory, Staffordshire, based on Britten's A Ceremony of Carols. With the choristers of Lichfield Cathedral directed by Andrew Lumsden and Robert Johnston.
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In this morning's Sunday Worship (8.07am R4) from the old chapel of Hawksyard Priory, there's a chance to hear Britten's sublime Ceremony of Carols, written, amazingly, on board a ship crossing the Atlantic in 1942. It's performed by choristers of Lichfield Cathedral, with the harpist Robert Johnston. (SG)
By Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week and the weekend.
Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Tony Hawks and Peter Jones for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.
(Repeated from Monday)
Justice in the wine and food business - is it possible? Suzie Atkins reports from South Africa.
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Three programmes in which Tim Healey and fellow musicians from the Mellstock Band re-create the songs of the early Victorians and the stories behind them.
When public hangings were commonplace, the felon's misdeeds were turned into songs and sold by the balladeers to the huge crowds that gathered at the foot of the gallows.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Nigel Colborn, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer 12 of the most frequently asked gardening questions. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
A new series in which Monty Don is in conversation with six of the country's leading gardeners.
Dr D.G. Hessayon, author of the bestselling Garden Expert books.
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Dr DG Hessayon (known as Dave to his friends) is the first of Monty Don's (above) Gardening Gurus (2.45pm R4). A shy and treasured specimen, he emerges from the shrubbery of anonymity to grant a rare interview and proves to be an attractive, robust, blooming and hardy perennial, originally of Armenian-Cypriot stock but rooted in Manchester. Selling an astonishing 42 million Garden Expert books has allowed him to progress from a tiny, semi-detached plot to 24 rolling Essex acres, where he seems to grow everything with, as you'd imagine, considerable success.
(SG)
Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of 21st-century America is dramatised in three parts by John Dryden.
In an age of plummeting birth rates - the result of pollution, nuclear accidents and toxic spillages - this is the diary of a woman recruited for reproductive purposes by a totalitarian regime that uses religion as a tool of state repression.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
David Stenhouse explores the power of the bestseller and fast-seller book lists which proliferate in books and magazines.
Fiona Shaw introduces the second of three anthologies of new poetry with contributions from Michael Hoffman, Christopher North, Andrew Waterhouse and Paul Durcan. Featuring a specially commissioned sequence written and read by Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
Isabel Hilton confronts the deadly disease kalaazar in Bihar, India.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Four philosophical adventures in the anthropology of everyday life by Steven Connor.
If you were to arrive on Earth from another planet, what would strike you most about humans? Our need for bags, perhaps?
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Peter White presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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It's a busy night in Ambridge.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 34
Laurie Taylor and guests suggest ways to improve mind, body and soul.
Write To: Room for Improvement, [address removed] E-Mail: [email address removed]
Roger Bolton airs your views.
(Repeated from Friday)
Michael Rosen presents four programmes about words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
In two programmes Dr Raj Persaud examines how we measure intelligence.
Do you know your IQ? If so, what does that number really mean and can it be used to predict your future?
(R)
Some economists think a new era has dawned in America. Peter Day asks if it could happen over here.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Challenging Britannia.
Scientist Dr Sheila Ochugboju gives her views on what our priorities should be in the new millennium.
Louise Doughty and her guests scientist Sir Robert May and novelist Pauline Melville discuss three of their favourite paperbacks.
(Rptd from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
With novelist Carol Shields.
(Rptd from yesterday 7.45pm)
Martin Jarvis reads four stories by Grant Allen.
Has Lady Vandrift Spotted a bargain?
(For details see yesterday)
