From St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
The Contentedness of Hermits. Mark Tully asks if there is still a place for the hermit amid the frenetic busyness of modern life. What is to be gained from a deliberate withdrawal into solitude? Producer Beverley McAinsh. Repeated at 11.30pm
Anothertopical episode of the farming programme. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week. Producer Karen Maurice. E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
Julie Christie speaks on behalf of a charity which works to improve the lives of people with ME, many of whom are severely disabled.
Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: Action for ME,[address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm
"Life is perhaps the only riddle that we shrink from giving up." A service from the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the death of Arthur Sullivan. With the Rev Stephen Shipley and the Rev Dr Ian Bradley. Director of music Michael Williams.
Repeated from Friday
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week. Editor Kevin Marsh
Omnibus edition.
Sandi Toksvig joins regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman Humphrey Lyttelton at the Pavilion theatre in Bournemouth. Repeated from Monday
What do Pythagoras, Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci have in common with four million people in the UK and 5,000 converts every week?
Documentary maker Eka Morgan explores the world of vegetarianism in the story of a vegetarian. Producer Rebecca Wells. Extended repeat tomorrow4pm
With James Cox.
An eight-part series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
1: Elgar's Cello Concerto. Cellist Julian Lloyd
Webber talks about what it's like to play this work, and Tim Dinsley shares the way in which he and his daughter Jo used this music to support them as she was dying. Michael Kennedy discusses why this piece has such an impact on people. Producer Rosie Boulton
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions posed by gardeners from Norfolk. With chairman Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor. Repeated Wednesday 3pm
This week Balding walks around Laugharne, home of poet Dylan Thomas , in the company of one of the town's oldest inhabitants, Brenda Williams. The route can be found on OS Explorer 177.
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. PHONE: [number removed]. Producer Lucy Lunt
Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and marriage is dramatised in two parts by April de Angelis.
Emma Woodhouse - handsome, clever and rich - is a young woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry. However, she is determined to find the right match for her new friend Harriet Smith.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Deja view with Mark Lewisohn: page 15
Charlie Lee Potter examines the best books of the week and investigates the thankless job of the ghostwriter.
Producer Fiona McLean. Repeated Friday 4pm
The next Bookclub on 3 December will be Graham Swift's Waterland
I The conclusion of a series exploring the background, effect and lasting appeal of some of our best-loved and most familiar poems.
6: The Owl and the Pussycat. Peggy Reynolds explores the nonsense world of Edward Lear 's The Owl and the Pussycat with the help of academics, writers, children and other fans. Producer Sara Davies. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
Maurice Walsh reports from Chile on events following the return of General Pinochet. Has he escaped retribution as critics predicted, or have
Chileans been inspired by new efforts to confront the past? Repeated from Tuesday
In two recollections Zina Saro-Wiwa , the 24 year-old daughter of the executed Nigerian activist Ken, revisits in her mind the place where she found solace and a sense of belonging: not in her native Nigeria, nor in Britain where she has lived most of her life, but in Salvador da Bahia, the old Brazilian capital where West African culture is everywhere apparent. 1: Bahia Calling Producer Nigel Acheson. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
Clare English presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
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Ruth makes a wish. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham : page 44
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
With Roger Bolton. Repeated from Friday
With Marcel Berlins. Rptd from Thursday
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Repeated from 7.55am
Scratch My Back. Andrew Dilnott asks whywe now expect people to be selfish, what can be done to increase the stock of altruism and whether selflessness is always good. Repeated from Thursday
Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley. Including It's a Funny Old World
Editor John Evans. It's a Funny Old World rptd Wednesday 8.45pm
With Libby Purves. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Poet and anthologist Matthew Sweeney presents favourite prose and poetry from his own personal collection. Reader Bonnie Hurran. Rptd from Thursday
