From Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire.
World Service analysis. Producer Mike Popham
The River, Joan Bakewell takes a literary and spiritual journey down the Thames. Producer Julian Mayers Repeated at 11.30pm
The topical farming programme, producer Adrian Hoiioway
With Edward Stourton. Series producer Liz Leonard
John Peel appeals on behalf of a charity that provides support for lone parents in England and Wales.
Producer Laurence Grissell
Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm
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Featuring the hymns of Charles Wesley , from the New Room in the heart of Bristol the oldest
Methodist place of worship in the UK. With the president of the British Methodist Conference, the Rev Dr Christina Le Moignan. Leaderthe Rev Roger Hutchings. Director of music Philip Carter.
Producer Philip Billson E-MAIL: sunday.worsh.p@bbc.co.uk
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With Eddie Mair.
Omnibus edition.
Soap and flannel with Alison Graham : page 30
Nieel Rees plays host to Marcel Berlins ,
Ruth Brandon , Paul Gambaccini and Juliet Stevenson. The reader is Meryl O'Keeffe. Repeated from Monday
Sheila Dillon looks at the history of food safety.
Producer Rebecca Wells Extended 4pm
With James Cox
A four-part series in which Andrew Sachs discovers the extraordinary story of England's Jewish history. 1: The Jews Of Medieval England Producer Nichola West
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: The Jewish Journey: 1.000 Years of Jewish
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Chapman Eric Robson and the team answer questions from the Eccleston and District Gardening Circle. And John Cushnie and Nigel Colborn report from the Dutch horticultural show, Roriade.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened 3pm
By Emile Zola. Dramatised in two episodes by Peter Tegel. Translated by George Holden.
Free-spirited Nana is a celebrated courtesan in the glitteringly corrupt Paris of the 1860s, with the adolescent Georges, the banker Steiner and the court chamberlain Count Muffat all vying for her attention.
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There's an airof celebration as Frank Delaney returns with a new series of listeners' poetry requests. This week, Juliet Stevenson , Tim Pigott -Smith and Emilia Fox read favourite wedding poems. Producer Kate McAII Repeated Saturday 11.30pm
In 1999 shopkeeper Abdul Raja was shot dead in South London by a gunman avenging the murder of a relative in Pakistan. Navid Akhtar investigates the evidence that feuds that start in Asia are now spilling over into Britain. Tuesday
How are public spaces best designed to meet our needs? 2: Shaping the Civic. Sarah Wigglesworth , one of Britain's leading young architects, suggests ways to create public spaces for everybody. Producer Jill Waters Repeated Saturday 7.45pm
Peter Donaldson presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
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Trouble abroad. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Matt Smith discovers India's annual Holi Festival, where throwing paint powder at one another is positively encouraged. Plus the fourth episode of Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren. Producer jane Chambers Series producer Olivia Seligman E-MAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk
10:The Carringtons.Christopher Lee 's series concludes with one of the more recently established families and some of its memorable characters. Narrated by Anna Massey. Producer Pete Atkin
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Emily Buchanan with the best English language radio from around the world. Repeated from Friday
As the House of Lords prepares to review religious offences, Marcel Berlins asks whether there is merit in maintaining a law of blasphemy. Repeated from Friday
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Feeling Fragile. We live in atime of widespread nervousness: security has been terrorised, technology threatened by viruses, eco-systems by disasters and economies by market fluctuations. Felipe Fernandez -Armesto asks whether our disaster-avoidance
Systems are tough enough. Repeated from Thursday
A preview of the politics of the next week.
Including at 10.45 Not While I'm Alive He Ain't
2: Brian Walden examines the bitter rivalry between Harold Wilson and George Brown in the sixties.
Editor John Evans Producer of Not While "m Alive HeAin 'tMartin Rosenbaum Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Rosie Boycott 's guests for the first programme of a new series are actor Jane Asher and gardener Monty Don , who discuss three paperbacks about faraway places - the Outer Hebrides, the wilds of Spain and the Peruvian mountains. Repeated from Tuesday
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Huw Edwards looks behind the scenes of four favourite operas. 2: La Traviata. Through a simple tale of doomed love, Verdi satirised the new capitalism of Napoleon Ill's Second Empire, questioning the morality of the rising European middle class and creating one of the stage's greatest proto-feminist heroines in the process. Producer Martin Smith
