From Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire.
For Palm Sunday Mark Tully considers our "dark night" experiences and discovers how the darkness can yield untold riches.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Another topical episode of the farming programme.
Alex Brodie with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
Jane Asher speaks on behalf of a charity which places people with managerial and professional skills as volunteers with voluntary organisations.
Donations: Reach, [address removed] Credit Cards: [number removed]. (Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
On Palm Sunday from the Big Top at Spring Harvest's Word Alive festival, Skegness, where thousands of Christians are gathered for a celebration of faith. The service begins with the description of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem, seated on a donkey.
By Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
News and conversation about the big stories of the week.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Edward Woodward, Michael Grade, Libby Purves and Peter McDonald. Reader William Franklyn.
(Repeated from Monday)
Derek Cooper explores new scientific claims for junk food.
(Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm) (The Food Programme Awards: page 32)
The best cookery websites: Websites, page 41
With James Cox.
The series of programmes in which Jane Glover explores the legacy of the founders of great musical dynasties. While the name of violinist Ivan Galamian may not spring readily to mind, members of the dynasty he founded are more familiar - Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung and Itzhak Perlman were all taught by the master whose influence touches virtually every violinist in the world. With Tasmin Little, Robin Stowell and critic Rob Cowan.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew answer questions posed by gardeners from south Oxfordshire. With chairman Eric Robson.Â
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
A cautionary tale involving foot rot, maggots, broken fences and astronomical vets' bills. If you dream of a cottage in the country, a few acres and some sheep to keep the grass down, this is essential listening.
By Honore de Balzac, dramatised in three parts by James Friel.
Bette's niece has married Wenceslas and is about to be betrayed by him. Valerie Marneffe's Brazilian paramour returns to throw her two other rival lovers into jealous despair. Bette weaves a web to trap them all and to secure a wealthy marriage settlement for herself.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Nick Revell discovers what is happening in the world of books.
(Repeated Friday 4pm)
Mike Gonzalez presents the second of two programmes of Hispanic poetry readings.
For the whole of Latin America the 20th century was a century of revolutions. Few were successful politically, but they inspired rich and passionate poetry.
Readings by Paul McGann and Juliet Stevenson.
(Rptd Saturday 11.30pm)
Romola Christopherson explores the future of the civil service.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Three letters reflecting on the meaning of home for those who have left it.
Foreign correspondent Allan Little spent his childhood dreaming of places beyond his village home in Scotland. Having lived most of his adult life in extreme situations around the world, what meaning does he still find in this beautiful but isolated place?
(Repeated Saturday 7.45pm)
David Aaronovitch presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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Helen is propositioned at her party.
(Rptd tomorrow 2pm)
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham: page 30
Laurie Taylor presents the series which offers the perfect way to become a better, wiser person. Guests Iain Sinclair, Brenda Maddox and Michael Bywater consider different ways of enriching the mind, body and spirit.
John Humphrys investigates aspects of the food chain.
(Repeated from Friday)
Michael Rosen presents the series about words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Reporter Ronit Knoble follows passionate biker Dave Coppin who, in his spare time, uses his motorbike to rush emergency blood and organ between hospitals across south-east England.
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Brendan O'Leary asks if we have yet managed to resolve the global problem of national and ethnic conflicts.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 Kebabbed: the Story of the Political Interview
Ian Hargreaves concludes his examination of how political interviewing has changed over the decades.
Louise Doughty and guests discuss three favourite paperbacks.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Repeated from yesterday 7.45pm
by Penelope Lively, read by Vanessa Rosenthal.
(For details see yesterday)
