From Holy Trinity Church, Skipton in Yorkshire.
Vengeance and Retribution. Bonnie Greer considers the attitudes of artists and thinkers towards vengeance and retribution and their impact upon victim, perpetrator, scapegoat and bystander.
Producer Alan Hall. Repeated at 11.30pm
Another topical episode of the farming programme. Producer Karen Gregor
Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and unfamiliar, series producer Liz Leonard
Stella Clarke speaks on behalf of a charity which helps people on low incomes build their own homes.
Donations: The Community Self-Build Agency. [address removed] Credit Cards: Freephone [number removed]
(Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm)
From St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, led by the Rev Stuart Bell. John 8, w3-ll; Matthew 13, w44--46. I Know You Will Answer; Here Is Love; Lord I Come to You; My Hope Is Built on Nothing
Less; Jesus, All for Jesus; How Good Is the God We Adore. E-MAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk
With Alistair Cooke.
Repeated from Friday
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Two volumes of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America are available on audio cassette from all good retail outlets and [web address removed]
Conversation about the big stories of the week, presented by Eddie Mair. Editor Kevin Marsh
Omnibus edition.
Radio's firstquality weekend newspaper, complete with copious living pull-out sections, features
Alexander Armstrong , Alice Arnold , Ewan Bailey ,
Rebecca Front, Simon Greenall , Melanie Hudson , Emma Kennedy , Chris Langham , Tracy-Ann Oberman , Vicki Pepperdine and Andy Taylor. Producer Paul Schlesinger (R)
This week a look at why drinking water is such a rare commodity in schools where vending machines supply constant soft drinks. And should that water be fluoridated?
Producer Rebecca Moore. Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm
With James Cox.
Bernard Shaw was a memorable music critic, using his wit, compendious knowledge and passion for the art to write a series of trenchant, provoking and influential pieces of music journalism. Pianist
Penelope Thwaites introduces some extracts and the music that inspired them.
Producer Sara Davies. Repeated Saturday llpm (R)
John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are the guests of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor.
The concluding programme celebrating the centenary of the garden city movement.
Letchworth, the first garden city, was established in 1903. Was it a blueprint for healthier living, or were critics closer to the mark when they described its houses as cramped? Presented by Allan Beswick. Producer Sarah Lewthwaite. Editor David Ross
Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment is dramatised in five parts by Doug Lucie.
Arthur Clennam still believes his parents have wronged someone, but he can't get any help from the Circumlocution Office.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)
Science fiction writer Terry Pratchett talks to
Charlie Lee-Potter about Thief of Time, his 26th novel in the Discworld series.
Producer Dymphna Flynn. The next bookclub on 6 Maywill be James Ellroy 's Black Dahlia. Repeated Friday 4pm
This week's poems explore the world of work, from flirtatious office friendships to the providers of our daily bread. Presented by Frank Delaney. Readers Elizabeth Bell, David Collins and Geoffrey Palmer. Producer Felicity Goodall. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
The Christian Brothers educated John Birt ,
Roger McGough and every Irish Taoiseach. Peter Stanford reports on how the order is facing up to a decline in vocations. Repeated from Tuesday
Alain de Botton plucks ancient philosophers from obscurity and asks what they can teach us today. In n this concluding programme he examines
Montaigne, the philosopherwho had read every book ever written in his time, yet considered most scholars blockheads and most books boring. Producer Sue Davies. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
A selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days, with Mark Whittaker.
Producer Neil George. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Caroline comes to the rescue. Repeated tomorrow 2pm Soap and Flannel with Alison Graham : page 28
This week a look at rehearsals forthe new stage version of Roald Dahl 's The Twits. Matt Smith examines the future of children's radio and there is an array of jokes and competitions. Also, Philip Pullman reads the third episode of Clockwork. Producer Jo Daykin. Series producer Olivia Seligman
The story of ground-breaking children's books, presented by Michael Rosen. The King of the Golden River. How the art critic John Ruskin wrote a fantasy tale for children - a decade before the Victorian craze for fantasy books. Producer Matthew Dodd (R)
The best English language radio from around the world, With Emily Buchanan. Repeated from Friday
With Marcel Berlins. Rptd from Thursday
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Repeated from 7.55am
Of Mice and Men. John Kampfner looks at whether politicians have as much power as they would like us to believe. Repeated from Thursday
Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley. Including 10.45 It's a Funny Old World Editor John Evans. It's a Funny Old World rptd Wednesday 8.45pm
Phillipa Pearce and Ben Gill discuss three favourite books With Matthew Parris. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
In this concluding programme investigating the relationship between mental illness and musical genius, John Rorance focuses on composers Ivor Gurney and Dmitri Shostakovich. Producer Paul Evans (R)
