From St Mary's, Prescot, Merseyside.
Denis Tuohy explores our understanding and experience of madness in words and music.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Now is the season when toads make for their breeding grounds. Many perish en route, but for those who succeed, a mating frenzy awaits. Lionel Kelleway explores the natural and unnatural history of the toad.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Tom Conti speaks on behalf of a charity which works with local organisations in developing countries to improve the life of wheelchair users.
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(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
From St Patrick's Parish Church, Coleraine, Co Londonderry, conducted by Archdeacon Kenneth Clarke.
By Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
Jeremy Vine presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week.
Omnibus edition.
Nigel Rees hosts a panel game about quotations with Samantha Bond, Patrick Barlow, Roger McGough and Peter Kellner. Reader Patricia Hughes.
(Repeated from Monday)
The world is warming up and sea levels are rising. Andrew Jefford investigates the implications for what we grow and eat in the UK and in the rest of the world.
(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. Jane Hanson continues her three-part exploration of this long-lived and fertile concept with historians of music and science.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Live from the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. With Nigel Colborn, John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Garden historian Caroline Holmes takes a three-part look at how former empires have transplanted their garden designs to the countries they ruled.
The Romans introduced the concept of pleasure gardens to Britain, bringing plants and new ways of using the land.
By Virginia Woolf, dramatised in two parts by Eileen Atkins.
The story of the Ramsay family holidaying in Scotland before the First World War is dominated by Woolf's portrait of the beautiful Mrs Ramsay.
The expedition to a nearby lighthouse is a symbolic and emotional journey.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Eileen Atkins on Virginia Woolf, page 31
Nick Revell on what's happening in the world of books and Helen Lederer reviewing the pick of the paperbacks.
(Repeated Friday 4pm)
Frank Delaney introduces requests for poems on the theme of parting.
(Rptd Saturday 11.30pm)
With Liz Carney.
(Rptd from Tuesday)
Composer Robert Walker describes life on the Indonesian island of Bali, to which he emigrated in 1992, settling in the village of Karangasem.
Walker is eager to join the gong players in the village, but he soon declares himself hopeless in the face of the staggering virtuosity of the native performers.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Peter Donaldson presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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Elizabeth wants her finger in the pie.
(Rptd tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 34
An examination of some of fiction's best-known characters and attempting a new literary diagnosis of their conditions. Susan Jeffreys is joined by author Andrew O'Hagan, Jenni Calder of the National Museums of Scotland and Marjorie Wallace from Sane to reassess Stevenson's most infamous character, and Dr Graham Easton reports on the history of schizophrenia and multi-personality disorder.
With Roger Bolton.
(Repeated from Friday)
With Michael Rosen.
(Rptd from Thursday)
Do we all possess untapped superhuman talent? Extraordinary artistic abilities exhibited by autistic savants could lie within us all. Peter Evans examines the latest research.
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The traditional concept of national heritage is being revised by new initiatives to represent excluded groups. Lola Young asks if the past still provokes too much celebration and too little scepticism.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Kebabbed: the Story of the Political Interview
Ian Hargreaves begins a four-part examination of how political interviewing has changed over the decades.
Presented by Libby Purves.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm
Written and read by Olivia Williams.
A story about the fine line between love and obsession.
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