From St John the Baptist, Loughton in Essex.
Waiting. This week Eileen Campbell explores the Advent theme of waiting.
Producer Beverley McAinsh. Repeated at 11.30pm
Morning Glory. Dawn in the Masai Mara in Kenya isfarfrom silent. The night sounds of cicadas, bats and frogs give way to a chorus of mammals and birds announcing the start of a new day.
Lionel Kelleway joins Jonathan Scott on the banks of the Mara river for a celebration of sunrise in the first of a new eight-part series.
Producer Sheena Duncan. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week. Producer Amanda Hancox. E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
The Rev Nicholas Holtam , vicar of St Martin in the Fields, presents the annual Christmas appeal for the homeless and those in need throughout the UK. Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm
Good News to the Poor. With the Most Rev Rowan Williams , Archibishop of Wales. From St Woolos Cathedral, Newport, South Wales. Hark the Glad Sound; Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour;
Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus; Thy Kingdom Come, 0 God; God Is Working His Purpose Out. Magnificat: Statham in E Minor. Anthem: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life. Director of music
Christopher Barton. Organist Timothy Phillips.
Repeated from Friday
With Eddie Mair. Editor Kevin Marsh
Behind the scenes of the annual appeal, with feedback on how the donations are spent.
Producer Anne Downing.
Repeated at 5.40pm and Thursday 3.45pm
Omnibus edition.
Tony Hawks joins Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden ,
Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre for the antidote to panel games. Repeated from Monday
Pesticides and poultry, fast food and foiegrasthe programme that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless.
Producer Sheila Dillon. Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm
With James Cox.
A series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
An anthem of love and support, Bridge over Troubled Water was released in 1970 and instantly became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. But for the Simon and Garfunkel partnership things were becoming less harmonious.
John Cushnie, Bob Rowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by members of the Stocksfield Plants and Gardens Society. With Chairman Eric Robson.
(Rptd Wed 3pm)
Today Balding visits Dorset to join a group who mix their love of Thomas Hardywith a passion forwalking. Producer Lucy Lunt. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 PHONE: [number removed]
By Lewis Carroll, dramatised in two parts by Hattie Naylor.
Alice leans too close to the looking glass and finds herself in a back-to-front world where flowers can talk, queens can run and a life-size game of chess - peopled by overgrown schoolboys, talking gnats and a white knight with no sense of balance - might lead to her being a queen.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Deja view with Mark Lewisohn: page 15
Charlie Lee Potter looks at the week's best books.
Producer Anne-Marie Cole. Repeated Friday 4pm
The next Bookclub on 7 January will be Tony Parsons 's Man and Boy
Narrative Poetry. Guest poets Helen Dunmore and Glyn Maxwell join poet laureate
Andrew Motion to discuss the writing of narrative poetry, with examples from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Marinerand their own work.
Producer Susan Roberts. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
Gerry Northam with major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad. Repeated from Tuesday
Wendy Austin presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Neil George. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Tom has no choice. Rptd tomorrow 2pm
Soap and Rannel with Alison Graham : page 46
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
David Hatch presents the quiz that delves into the BBC sound archives and comes up with an intriguingjumble of radio fragments. Rptd from Friday
Marcel Berlins presents the programme that tackles a variety Of legal issues. Repeated from Thursday
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Repeated from 7.55am
9.30 Analysis
Where It's At. Conventional wisdom holds that in a globalised economy everything should be footloose. So why are restaurants in the same street and why do people who use the phone most live closest together? Diane Coyle asks if place matters ever more and examines the forces which put the fate of whole regions at Stake. Repeated from Thursday
Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley. Including It's a Funny Old World Editor John Evans it's s a Funny Old World repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Louise Doughty talks to author and playwright Tariq Ali , and Jamaican dub poet Jean Binta Breeze , about theirfavourite books. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
M Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels. In this programme he enters the world of Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice with musician Derek McCulloch , actress Judith French and historical dance expert Madeleine Ingleheam. Producer Paul Evans (R)
