From All Saints Church, Daresbury, Cheshire.
Mark Tully considers the language of signs and portents.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
From Magdalen College, Oxford. The Liturgy of Easter begins with the lighting of the paschal candle and the singing of the Exsultet, together with psalms and readings meditating on the mighty acts of God. Led by the Dean of Divinity, the Rev Dr Michael Piret. With the college choir directed by Anthony Froggatt.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.
John Peel speaks on behalf of a charity which helps people to stop smoking.
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(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)
The celebration of Easter at Magdalen College, Oxford, continues with the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the renewal of baptismal vows.
Missa Festiva (Gretchaninov); Easter (Vaughan Williams, from Five Mystical Songs); Romans 6, vv 3-11; Mark 16, vv 1-8; The Strife Is O'er - Thine Be the Glory.
Celebrant the Rev Dr Michael Piret.
Eddie Mair presents news and conversation about the big stories of the week.
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Henry Goodman, Jo Brand, Andrew Marr and John Sergeant. Reader Patricia Hughes.
(Repeated from Monday)
Sheila Dillon explores the flourishing food culture of County Cork in Ireland and asks whether Irish officialdom is helping or hindering the players involved.
(Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
The last of the series in which Jane Glover explores the legacy of the founders of great musical dynasties. The playing of Jack Brymer is legendary, and his influence on generations of clarinettists will continue well into the future.
Glover talks to clarinettists David Campbell and Pamela Weston and to Brymer himself about the dynasty he heads.
(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
A special Easter edition of the programme from the Algarve. Nigel Colborn, John Cushnie and Bunny Guinness answer questions and discover the secret Portugal the holidaymakers never see. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
The conclusion of James Friel's three-part dramatisation of the novel by Honore de Balzac.
Adeline makes a last bid to save her family's honour; Bette loses her chance to marry into money; death claims both sinners and the saintly; and virtue, it seems, has no reward.
Repeated Saturday 9pm
Nick Revell discovers what is happening in the world of books, including this week's reading from the award-winning children's novel Holes by Louis Sachar, which starts tomorrow at 3.30pm.
(Rptd Friday 4pm)
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion speaks to the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, due to be announced shortly before this broadcast. The winner will be honoured for a lifetime's contribution to poetry.
(Rptd Saturday 11.30pm)
Bridget Kendall presents the first in a three-part series that takes the pulse of 21st-century America in the run-up to the presidential election.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
The last of three letters reflecting on the meaning of home for those who have left it and exploring the feelings that returning to childhood settings can evoke. Having grown up in Inverness in the sixties and seventies, writer A.N. Smith reflects on the need to get away from home, and the mixed pleasures of return.
(Rptd Saturday 7.45pm)
Mark Lawson presents his selection from the past week on BBC radio.
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David chips in.
(Repeated tomorrow 2pm)
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Laurie Taylor presents the series which offers the perfect way to become a better, wiser person.
John Humphrys puts the food industry's leading figures on the Spot. Repeated from Good Friday
Michael Rosen presents the programme about words and the way we speak.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Lucy Ash visits Orlando Tobon, a man who has spent the last 20 years helping fellow Colombians in New York. When police find the bodies of unlucky cocaine couriers, killed by the cargo they were hired to bring to the USA, they contact Don Orlando who tries to restore dignity to the victims of a ruthless drug trade and to their families by arranging proper burials.
(R)
Frances Cairncross asks if the much-vaunted knowledge economy means we need to rethink education.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.
Including 10.45 On the Road
Four million homes are needed in England over the next 25 years. Sarah Harrison follows a group of MPs as they visit inner-city estates and market towns to talk to people about the future.
With Louise Doughty.
(Rptd from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
Lucie Skeaping and guests explore the lives of five notorious mistresses whose talents and accomplishments went far beyond their sex appeal.
Songs performed by Lucie Skeaping accompanied by Robin Jeffrey
(R)
