From Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
Elders and Betters. In a rapidly ageing society, do we accord senior citizens the respect they deserve or are our elders necessarily our betters? Fergal Keane investigates. Producer Frank Stirling. Repeated at 11.30pm
Another topical episode of the farming programme.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell
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
Gorden Kaye speaks on behalf of a charity which provides care and support to people with brain injuries.
Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: Headway, [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm
Swansea Methodists mark the new year with their annual covenant service. The Rev Stephen Wigley leads a renewal of vows at Brunswick Methodist Church. Jeremiah 31, W31-34;
Romans 12, wl-2; John 5, wl-10; Brightest and Best; The Kings; Hail to the Lord's Anointed; Poverty (0 Deued Pob Cristion); Now Let Us Use the Grace Divine, 0 Worshipthe Lord. With the Philomusica Choir. Directors of music
Jennifer Taylor and Angela Morgan. Organist Howard Cooke.
Comment, context and colourfrom the United
States with veteran commentator Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to news, with conversation about the big stories of the week. Editor Kevin Marsh
Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game where celebrities speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation on a given topic. This week he is joined by Clement Freud, Linda Smith, Ross Noble and Tony Hawks at Buxton Opera House.
(Repeated from Monday)
Once the preserve of charity organisations, fair-trade products can now be found in most supermarkets and many coffee bars. But who benefits most - the retailers or the farmers? Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates.
(Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm)
With James Cox.
A series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks. Summertime
George Gershwin 's classic lullaby is explored by his biographer Rodney Greenberg and opera singers Harolyn Blackwell and Lesley Garrett. Producer Sara Conkey
John Cushnie , Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster are guests of the Medieval Hall in Salisbury. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor. Shortened 3pm
Colin Dexter and guests examine and explain the key elements of the crossword puzzle. The examples used to illustrate this are drawn from crosswords from the previous week's broadsheets. Producer Felix Riley
The conclusion of Nick Fisher 's dramatisation of Peter Ackroyd 's acclaimed novel. Hawksmoor cannot find the murderer, and Dyer, the 18th-century architect, becomes more steeped in evil. and with Terence Edmond , Andrew Wincott , Clare Corbett and Helen Ayres Director Janet Whitaker. Repeated Saturday 9pm
Frank Delaney presents a selection of poems which contain a moment of epiphany. Barbara Rynn , Don Warrington and Sally Cookson read poems by, among others, Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney and Raymond Carver.
Producer Kate McAII. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
Edi Stark talks to surgeons, physicians and other consultants working in hospitals in Britain about the pressures of their jobs.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Jack and the Beanstalk. If in your childhood you never learned that this tale was a guide to entrepreneurial risk-taking in a free-market economy, that is because the storyteller was not Bridget Rosewell. In three programmes, she mischievously reworks fairy tales forthe pantomime season. Producer Michael Blastland. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
of the Week
Presented by Laurie Taylor.
Producer Neil George. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Brian plays his cards right. Repeated tomorrow 2pm Alison Graham 's Soap and Flannel: page 30; Timothy Bentinck 's Kind of Day: page 122
Phil Hammond returns with a new series of the discussion programme, this time considering our perceptions of various industries. This week Brian Sewell , Professor Dianna Petherbridge ,
Professor Eric Moody and Doris Saatchi discuss the art industry. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith
Presented by David Hatch. Repeated from Friday
Presented by Michael Rosen. Repeated from Thursday
Grey Whales from Alaska to California. Mark
Carwardine follows the spectacular migration of gray whales as they travel the west coast of North America. ProducerSarah Blunt(R). E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from 7.55am
Governments, companies and individuals tend increasingly to plan financial decisions on the basis of economic forecasts.
Andrew Dilnot questions whether this kind of prediction is an exact Science. (Repeated from Thursday)
Next week's political headlines with Norman Smith. Including 10.45 Women at the Top
Editor John Evans. Women at the Top repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Louise Doughty talks to adventurer Benedict Allen and political commentator Matthew Parris about theirfavourite paperbacks. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels. Thomas Hardy 's Underthe Greenwood Tree reconstructs the early 19th-century musical world. With musicians Bonny Sartin and Dave Townsend and historian Jo Draper. Producer Paul Evans (R)
