From York Minster.
On the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, Mark Tully explores the benefits and challenges of being still.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Flocks of lapwings sweeping over farms are fast becoming a rare sight in Britain. Lionel Kelleway tracks down our only crested wader to discover why it is disappearing and what plans are in store to conserve it.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Eamonn Holmes speaks on behalf of a charity which offers a chance of life to those with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases.
Donations: The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust, [address removed] Credit Cards: [number removed]
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
From St Mary's Church in Calne, Wiltshire. Led by Dr Maggie Roux. With music by Schola Cantorum of Calne, winners of the 1999 BBC Minstrels in the Gallery competition. Director of music Geoffrey Reid.
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.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes are Edward Woodward, Michael Grade, Libby Purves and Dr Peter McDonald. Reader William Franklyn.
(Repeated from Monday)
Derek Cooper details modern Britain's uncomfortable and contradictory attitudes towards food.
(Rptd tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Stephanie Hughes concludes a six-part series exploring the mysteries and mechanics of writing music. She discovers the inspiration behind the music of two contrasting composers: Scottish modernist James MacMillan and cult Orthodox composer Sir John Tavener.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Ray Broughton, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of the Castle Horticultural Society, Winchester. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Edward Enfield presents six programmes for those who are at last free to do what they have always wanted to do. This week he learns to cook a pudding and hears from a budding pianist who has turned 80. (R)
By John Steinbeck, dramatised in three parts by Shaun McKenna.
Sam Hamilton has foreseen the darkness which is about to fall on the Salinas Valley - and it begins with Cathy.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Frank Delaney introduces listeners' requests for the ever-popular Robert Frost, which are read by Kerry Shale. Poet Brian Patten chooses his favourite Frost and introduces some new poems of his own.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
With Jolyon Jenkins.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
The first of two talks by Jamaican-born Pat Cumper, who has a mix of Scots, northern English and Caribbean blood in her veins. She describes her arrival in Britain and her first year at Cambridge University amid the political turmoil of the early 1970s.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
(Programme of the Week: page 119)
Mark Whittaker presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
Phone: [number removed]. Fax: [number removed] E-Mail: [email address removed] Website: [web address removed]
Nigel looks ahead.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 34
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)
In the second of two programmes about the excesses of human emotions, Dr Gillian Rice explores the boundary between normal and pathological grieving.
(R)
Peter Day wants to be an internet dotcom millionaire. How does he go about it?
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Meet the Mayors
The Dutch are divided over whether to change their system for electing mayors. Dinah Lammiman talks to Annie Brauwer, the appointed mayor in Utrecht, about what the impact of an elected mayor might be on her city and on the rest of the Netherlands.
With Libby Purves.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Maggie O'Kane reflects on her assignments to some of the most dangerous war zones in recent years. In the last of the series she recalls her recent visit to Chechnya. The central experience was a hazardous night journey in a truck driven by two Chechen soldiers with Russian bombs exploding around them.
(Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm)
by Kate Saunders.
Beautiful Clare lives with her frumpy sister Ursula, mourning the tragic death of her husband Jim, whom she absolutely adored. Or did she....?
(For details see yesterday)
