From St George's, Dunster.
Denis Tuohy explores the lure of the promised land versus the pull of home for this Mothering Sunday. With music by Chuck Berry and Joseph Haydn and words by Vikram Seth and Charles Dickens.
(Rptd at 11.30pm)
Another topical episode of the farming programme.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
John Sergeant speaks on behalf of a charity which helps prevent blindness and restores sight to people in the UK and in the developing world.
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(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
A service for Mothering Sunday from St Martin in the Fields, London, led by the Rev Rosemary Lain-Priestley. With Professor Frances Young.
By Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week.
Nigel Rees hosts a panel game about quotations.
With Samantha Bond, Patrick Barlow, Roger McGough and Peter Kellner.
Reader Patricia Hughes.
(Repeated from Monday)
Simon Parkes reports on how farmers and fishermen are rebuilding their communities and their livelihoods in Orissa, India, in the aftermath of last year's hurricane and floods.
(Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
Concluding her three-part series, Jane Hanson explores the connections between literature, nuclear physics and the music of the spheres - the ancient belief that the motion of the planets produces sounds which have a direct influence on our music. (Repeated Saturday 11pm)
John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by gardeners from Warwickshire. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
Garden historian Caroline Holmes continues her three-part tour of famous gardens built by former empires.
The Islamic rulers of medieval Spain introduced sensuous gardens which were imbued with great spiritual significance. Their intricate designs were far ahead of the rest of Europe. Wafting fragrances, water features and patios are just some of the ideas we have inherited from them.
The conclusion of Virginia Woolf's novel, dramatised in two parts by Eileen Atkins.
Ten years on, the Ramsay family makes a second visit to Scotland. There are poignant memories of those who have died in the intervening years. As Lily Briscoe watches on the shore, the promised visit to the lighthouse is finally achieved.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Juliet Stevenson and Paul McGann join Frank Delaney to read a selection of listeners' requests for Mothering Sunday. And novelist and poet Helen Dunmore introduces some of her own poems on being a mother and a daughter.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)
With Allan Urry.
(Repeated 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 meets the immigration official who reckons a new visa is worth the cost of an airfare.
(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)
Liz Barclay presents her selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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Wayne is stalled on the runway.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
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The last of four programmes examining some of fiction's best-known characters.
A look at tuberculosis in literature. Susan Jeffreys is joined by Professors David Coward and Elizabeth Wilson, and by chest consultant John Moore-Gillon, to examine literature's most famous consumptive.
With Roger Bolton.
(Repeated from Friday)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Being drunk is often treated as a bit of a laugh. In the first of two programmes about alcohol, Wendy Robbins wonders whether the joke is wearing thin.
(R)
A new constitution, new technology, the new global economy - British politicians seem in love with change. But is there anything really new going on? With Melanie Phillips.
(Rptd from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Kebabbed: the Story of the Political Interview
Ian Hargreaves looks at how political interviewing has changed.
Louise Doughty and guests discuss three favourite paperbacks.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm
By Steve Tilley, read by Tom George.
A cemetery is thrown into chaos when the grave digger is stung by a wasp during a funeral.
(R)
