From St Martin's, Eynsford, Kent.
Writer and storyteller Shah Husain asks why the weaving of stories is such a crucial part of human experience, why we have such a thirst for them, and why it is that we never grow out of them.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Richard Uridge presents another topical episode of the farming programme.
Alex Brodie with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Tony Robinson speaks on behalf of a charity which supports the self-help initiatives of disabled people in developing countries.
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(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
From St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
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 at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, by Clement Freud, Linda Smith, Simon Williams and Julian Clary for radio's most devious panel game.
(Repeated from Monday)
As organic food becomes just another commodity, the question of quality has risen to the top of the organic movement agenda - how you measure it, and how it is maintained when producing food on a large scale. Sheila Dillon investigates.
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Stephanie Hughes presents a six-part series exploring the mysteries and mechanics of writing music.
Jocelyn Pook's credits include the Golden Globe-nominated score for Eyes Wide Shut. She compares the act of writing for dance and film with the experiences of Jonathan Dove, whose music has been heard in the Millennium Dome and at Glyndebourne Opera.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by members of the Royal Leamington Spa Horticultural Society. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Five programmes for people who are at last free to do what they have always wanted to do.
Edward Enfield plans a visit to Poland, the Waspes borrow their daughter's backpack and see the world, there is talk of three men in a pub with harmonicas, and there is a trip in a snoozemobile.
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By Frances Sheridan, adapted in two parts by Louise Page.
Tricked by her husband's conniving mistress into meeting her former fiance, Sidney has been banished from her home and children. Will anyone accept her now?
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Nick Revell finds out what's happening in the world of books.
(Repeated Friday 4pm)
Frank Delaney and readers Douglas Hodge, Patricia Brake and Brian Gear deliver a mixed bag of your favourite poems, from Thomas Hardy to Simon Armitage. Featuring the winners of the national Speak a Poem competition.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
With Liz Carney.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Three writers curate their dream exhibition or build a museum that could not exist and write an imaginary guide that takes listeners round the show.
Kevin Jackson leads a guided tour of Library of Lost Books which contains all the great literature which has not come down to us.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Diana Madill presents her selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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Joe considers the past and the future.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
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Stuart Maconie hosts an entertaining discussion looking at what effect the big stories of today will have on all our tomorrows. And how is now different from the future we were told to expect?
With Roger Bolton.
(Repeated from Friday)
With Marcel Berlins.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Kerry Lawrence and Tina Little have very different body shapes: one is anorexic, the other overeats. Through the Eating Disorders Club they have become pen friends. Kim Normanton joins them for a rare weekend together.
(R)
Keep It Complex. Peter Day looks at companies that are trying to apply the new science of chaos and complexity to their businesses. Rptd from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including at 10.45 There Should Be a Law Against It
Max Cotton reports on an attempt by a backbench MP to protect the green belt.
With Libby Purves.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Maggie O'Kane gives the inside story of her encounters with violence in Kosovo, East Timor and Chechnya.
(Rptd from yesterday 7.45pm)
By Helen Fallon, read by Abi Eniola.
While her husband is studying at university in Ireland, Khadiata is lonely and misses her African home.
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