From St Mary's, Prescott, Merseyside.
Constancy. Mark Tully celebrates constancy and considers what place there might be for this old-fashioned virtue in a fast-moving, ever-changing world. Producer Beverley McAinsh. Rptd at 11.30pm
The Late Shift. In this second programme from Kenya's Masai Mara, Jonathan Scott takes
Lionel Kelleway to a hyena concert hall to hear the sounds of the approaching night.
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, moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and unfamiliar.
Producer Liz Leonard. E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
Bob Mortimer speaks on behalf of a charity which supports people who have arthritis.
Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: Arthritis Care, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm Thursday 3.27pm
Comfort My People. From St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey. A service forthe third Sunday in Advent, based on Isaiah 40. With
Canon Robert Wright and Canon Tom Wright. Director of music Simon Over. Organist Thomas Trotter.
Repeated from Friday
Eddie Mair presents news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Editor Kevin Marsh
Jeremy Hardyjoins regulars Barry Cryer ,
Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton at the Swan theatre in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. With Colin Sell at the piano. Repeated from Monday
Derek Cooper casts a critical eye over cookery books - the best and the worst - and looks at what goes on behind the glossy covers.
Producer Rebecca Moore. Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm
With James Cox.
A series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks. The Last Postwas the final bugle call forthe armed forces before lights out at night. Over the years it has become inextricably linked with death and the act of remembrance. Officer AD Bridges describes how he prepared the 12 buglers forthis year's
Remembrance Day service. Producer Rosie Boulton
John Cushnie, Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of the Bourton Vale Horticultural Society, Worcestershire. With chairman Eric Robson.
(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)
In the last of the current series Balding walks in Berkshire to discover why the Wittenham Clumps were such a source of inspiration to landscape painter Paul Nash.
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And What Alice Found There
The conclusion of Lewis Carroll 's classic, dramatised by Hattie Naylor. Alice is still playing a bizarre game of chess. She needs to escape the fearful Jaberwock so that she can reach the eighth square and fulfil her dreams of becoming queen.
Music composed and performed by Oily Fox
Director Marion Nancarrow. Repeated Saturday 9pm
This week Charlie Lee Potter looks at a new anthology of the world's greatest diarists. Producer Anne-Marie Cole. Repeated Friday 4pm
The next Bookclub on 7 January will be Tony Parsons 's Man and Boy
Comic Verse. Guest poets Kit Wright and Sophie Hannah join poet laureate Andrew Motion to discuss the use of humour in poetry, with examples from Alexander Pope to their own work. Producer Susan Roberts. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
With Julian O'Halloran. Rptd from Tuesday
In the first of two talks, Kate Adie draws on her own experiences in the Gulf War and Afghanistan to considerthe implications of reporting on wars as they happen.
Producer Tony Grant. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
Mark Lawson presents his 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
Disaster at the dress rehearsal. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
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Laurie Taylor and guests consider different ways of enriching the mind, body and spirit in the series which offers you the perfect wayto become a better and wiser human being.
Producers Rebecca Nicholson and Jane O'Rourke
David Hatch presents the quiz that delves into the BBC SOUnd archives. Repeated from Friday
Michael Rosen presents the programme about words and the way we speak. Repeated from Thursday
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Repeated from 7.55am
Sniffing the Wind. Politics seems to be in decline as voter turnout falls and party differences shrink. Are we becoming less engaged with public issues, or finding other ways of expressing opinions and values? Ian Hargreaves asks whether voting in electronic polls, participating in protests and trying to influence business through what we buy means democracy istaking new forms. Repeated from Thursday
Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley. Including 10.45 Women at the Top
Editor John Evans. Women at the Top repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Louise Doughty talks to philosopher Ray Gaita and translator Anthea Bell about theirfavourite paperbacks. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels. In The Old Curiosity Shop,
Charles Dickens indulges his passion for popular entertainment and music through the character of Dick Swiveller. Stead explores Dickens's musical world with Tim Healey , Andrew Sanders and Paul Schlicke. Readers Louise Breckon -
Richards and Andrew Maud. ProducerPaui Evans(R)
