From Selby Abbey in North Yorkshire.
The Comfort of Strangers. Fergal Keane examines the human impulse to connect with the unknown and wonders why it is sometimes easier to lean on people we hardly knowthan on our closestfriends.
Producer Beverley McAinsh. Repeated at 11.30pm
Another topical episode of the farming programme.
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectivies on stories, familiar and unfamiliar.
Producer Rosemary Dawson. E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
Steve Redgrave speaks on behalf of a charity which supports those with colitis and Crohn's disease. producer Anne Downing
DONATIONS: NACC. [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm
From St John 's Renfield Parish Church, Glasgow. Led by the Rev Johnston McKay. With the Rev Dugald Cameron and the Rev Fiona Douglas. Soprano Jeni Bern. With the Bearsden Burgh
Choir. Director of music James Hunter. Organist John Langdon.
By Alistair Cooke. Insight, anecdote and history from the doyen of commentators. Repeated from Friday
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week. Editor Kevin Marsh
Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Stephanie Caiman ,
Humphrey Carpenter , Jonathan Cecil and John Julius Norwich. ReaderWilliam Franklyn. Repeated from Monday
Five of Britain's greatest bakers travel to Turin to prove to a gathering of the world's gourmands that the British are the best in the world at baking bread.
(Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
David Owen Norris presents a four-part series which evokes a decade in the past through its songs.
Norris re-creates the flavour of Guy Fawkes's decade in song and conversation with John Carey and Peter Holman. Songs, including John Donne's first publication, sung by Ian Partridge. Producer Virginia Crompton
Pippa Greenwood , John Cushnie and Bunny
Guinness answer questions posed by gardeners from Suffolk. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor
Repeated Wednesday 3pm
Dr Tom Plunkett visits ruined buildings, recalling their former glory. In this concluding programme he looks at Bury St Edmunds Abbey, one of the great European monasteries demolished by Henry VIII.
By JG Farrell, dramatised in three parts by Mike Walker.
Life for ex-pats in Singapore in 1942 is as luxurious as ever. But for Matthew Webb, the recently arrived heir to the biggest rubber business, the rumblings from the East promise only one thing - war!
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Charlie Lee Potter looks at what is happening in the world of books.
Producer Fiona McLean. Repeated Friday 4pm i The next Bookclub on 3 Decemberwill be Graham Swift 's Wateriand
A six-part series exploring the background, effect and lasting appeal of some of our best-loved and most familiar poems. 3: Rememberby Christina Rossetti. Peggy Reynolds explores the background and lasting impact of Rossetti's sonnet with her biographer, a vicar, other writers and an expert in the psychology of grieving. Producer Sara Davies
Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
Gerry Northam with major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Repeated from Tuesday
Chris Stewart, author of the bestselling Driving Over Lemons, reads the second of four specially written stories about his sheep-filled existence from life on El Valero, his mountain farm in Spain. Producer Sara Jane Hall
Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
Eleanor Oldroyd presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Phone: [number removed] Fax: [number removed]. E-Mail: [email address removed] Website: [web address removed]
Tom takes two-timing too far. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Alison Graham 's Soap and Flannel: page 42
The series which offers you the perfect way to become a better and wiser human being. Laurie Taylor and guests consider different ways of enriching the mind, body and spirit.
Producers Rebecca Nicholson and Jane O'Rourke
Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy. Repeated from Friday
Marcel Berlins presents the programme that tackles big legal issues and everyday ones. Repeated from Thursday
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Repeated from 7.55am
GOVCOM. With companies racing to transform themselves for the wired-up world, Peter Day asks why government is finding it so difficult. Repeated from Thursday
Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley.
Including 10.45 Home Life at Number 10
Anthony Howard concludes his examination of the often turbulent domestic lives of prime ministers over the last 100 years.
(Home Life at Number 10 repeated Wednesday 8.45 pm)
Libby Purves presents a guide to the world of learning, with advice, features and your views. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Eminent scientist-turned-clergyman, the Rev
Dr John Polkinghorne , presents his favourite pieces of prose and poetry. Readers Alice Arnold Jamie Glover. Repeated from Thursday
