From St Mary's, Lymm, Cheshire.
Inspired by the image of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circling in the sacred Kaaba at the climax of the Hajj, Mark Tully considers finding, giving and receiving directions and, he talks to Father Gerard Hughes about the art of spiritual direction.
(Repeated at 11. 30pm)
Lionel Kelleway visits a large rookery to find out how the new season is progressing in all its hustle and bustle.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Jeremy Paxman speaks on behalf of a charity which has a school for children with learning disabilities in Botswana.
Donations: Camphill Community Trust, [address removed]. Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
For the first Sunday in Lent, from Royal Holloway, a college of the University of London in Egham, Surrey.
Led by the Rev Andrew Taylor. Preacher the Rev Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Richmond Park College, Oxford.
Exodus 16, vv 1-8; Mark 1, vv 9-15; Awake My Soul and with the Sun; Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown; All My Hope on God Is Founded.
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.
Nigel Rees hosts a panel game about quotations
(Repeated from Monday)
Frozen chips, old frozen Argentinian beef - cheap, low-quality ingredients on some of the most expensive menus around the country. Derek Cooper exposes a catering scandal.
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Richard Coles meets the Can't Sing Choir - made up of people who want to sing but think they cannot or those who have been begged not to - and the choir's inspirational founder Joan Taylor.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Pippa Greenwood, Roy Lancaster and Nigel Colborn answer the questions posed by members of the Holyport Village Show Committee and Women's Institute, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Edward Enfield with another edition of the series for those who are at last free to do what they have always wanted to do. This week he learns how to practise virtue. Dotie Russell starts her own business. Plus the men who waltz their way across the world's oceans.
(R)
The conclusion of John Steinbeck's novel in Shaun McKenna's dramatisation.
As Adam is freed from the tyranny of his love for Cathy, so his son's battles with life are just beginning.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Nick Revell finds out what has been happening in the world of books and Maureen Freely reviews this week's Pick of the Paperbacks.
(Repeated Friday 4pm)
Frank Delaney introduces listeners' requests for favourite poems on the theme of age and youth. Readers Juliet Stevenson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul McGann and June Barrie.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
With Mark Whitaker.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
The final talk by Jamaican-born Pat Cumper, who came to Cambridge in the seventies. She becomes engaged to a fellow Cambridge student from Kenya and travels to Mother Africa to meet her prospective in-laws, where she is struck by the natural beauty of the surroundings but also by the racial and cultural tensions she encounters.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Wendy Austin presents her selection from the past week on BBC radio.
Phone: [number removed] Fax: [number removed]. E-Mail: [email address removed] Website: [web address removed]
Debbie plans a takeover.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 34
A new four-part series examining some of fiction's best-known characters and attempting a new literary diagnosis of their conditions.
Alzheimer's? Old age? Or did power send him mad? Professor Colin Blakemore, Francis Wheen and Dr Susan Bruce join Susan Jeffreys to consider one of Shakespeare's great tragic heroes. With actor Brian Cox, author Linda Grant and Dr Graham Easton.
Programme of the Week: page 117
With Roger Bolton.
(Repeated from Friday)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Sallie Davies presents two programmes about the work of lay magistrates.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
Is ignorance the National Health Service's most serious illness? Frances Cairncross reveals the lack of knowledge about how the NHS is run, raising questions about how the budget is spent.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Meet the Mayors
Dinah Lammiman meets Francesco Rutelli, Rome's first elected mayor to hear his tips for success for elected mayors in the UK.
Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of leaning.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Six eminent speakers explore the direction of faith in the 21st century.
(Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm)
by Ruth Rendell.
Maurice cannot wait to start a new life in Australia with his darling Patricia.
(For details see yesterday)
