From St Badburgha, Ebrington, Gloucestershire.
The exuberant and chaotic celebrations of the Hindu festival of Holi provide the starting point for Mark Tully's exploration of the many facets, both joyful and menacing, of mischief and misrule.
(Rptd at 11.30pm)
Wildlife film-makers John and Mary-Lou Aitchison live on the west coast of Scotland. Lionel Kelleway visits them and their neighbours - otters, seals and geese - as winter comes to an end.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Stephanie Cole speaks on behalf of a charity which seeks to improve the lives of everyone affected by schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.
Donations: National Schizophrenia Fellowship, [address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
From Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Ayrshire, for the second Sunday in Lent. With the Very Rev Kevin Franz and the Rev Christopher Lyon. The Ayrshire Youth Choir is directed by Raymond Bramwell.
By Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
A fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week.
Nigel Rees hosts a panel game about quotations with Richard Griffiths, Royce Mills, Christopher Matthew and Michael Wood. Reader William Franklyn.
(Repeated from Monday)
Natalie Wheen goes in search of authentic Greek food on the island of Lesbos.
(Repeated tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Musicians from antiquity to the Baroque believed that the motion of the planets produced sounds which had a direct relationship to music-making on Earth. In a three-part series Jane Hanson explores this long-lived and fertile concept with historians of music and science.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Pippa Greenwood, Roy Lancaster and Nigel Colborn tackle the postbag. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Edward Enfield with a final batch of ideas for those enjoying the leisure of retirement. Two women go flying in Lancashire, a man takes up scuba diving, and an octogenarian's first book is published.
(R)
By Ryunosoke Akutagawa, adapted by Kevin Fegan.
Who killed the young samurai warrior from Kyoto? Why does every witness have a different story to tell? A classic tale about a murder investigation which becomes an examination of the real meaning of both confession and truth.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Nick Revell examines a new edition of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management and Maureen Lipman looks at the enduring appeal of Professor Branestawm.
(Repeated Friday 4pm)
Frank Delaney introduces requests for poems in translation, ranging from Anglo-Saxon originals to contemporary Serbian. Readers Juliet Stevenson, Tim Pigott-Smith and Paul McGann.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
In advance of the Russian election, there is massive support for acting president Vladimir Putin, whose onslaught in Chechnya has so alarmed the West. Julian O'Halloran investigates.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
In 1992 English composer Robert Walker emigrated to the village of Karangasem on the Indonesian island of Bali. In the first of five new programmes he describes the life he leads.
Thanks to Walker, canasta has caught on in Karangasem. There has been plenty for him to learn, too, including how to keep track of seven languages.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Richard Uridge 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]
Pork is off the menu.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 36
Some of fiction's best-known characters and a new literary diagnosis of their conditions.
Was the first Mrs Rochester really a lunatic? Professor Elaine Showalter, theatre director Polly Teale, Clare Rayner and Professor Sally Shuttleworth join Susan Jeffreys to give their views and verdicts.
With Roger Bolton.
(Repeated from Friday)
Michael Rosen explores words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Sallie Davies examines the work of lay magistrates.
(Repeated from Wednesday)
Inequality is back on the Government's agenda. Does that mean that third-way policies targeting social exclusion or emphasising ethnic diversity have failed to disguise the continuing importance of class and material inequality in British life? David Walker investigates.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Speechless
Sarah Harrison looks at why some MPs avoid speaking in the chamber and whether it is still important for MPs to contribute regularly to debates.
With Libby Purves.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm
By Colum McCann, read by Sarah Dobson.
A trapped horse is freed by a group of soldiers, with dramatic consequences for a young girl and her father.
(R)
