From All Saints' Church, Daresbury, North Cheshire.
World Service analysis, producer Mike Popham
Becoming Jimmy. Former used-car salesman Professor
GusMcGrouthertalksofhisjourneytobecommga leading plastic surgeon. With poems by Dannie Abse. Producer Matt Thompson Repeated at 11.30pm
The topical farming programme. Producer Adrian Holloway
With Roger Bolton. Series producer Liz Leonard
Yasmin Alibhai Brown appeals for a charity that provides holidays for women in need of a period of rest due to social or economic circumstances.
Producer Laurence Grissell
Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm DONATIONS: Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]
Disentangling Peace from Pain. On National Nurses
Day from the chapel of Harrogate District Hospital, led by the Chaplain, the Rev David Hoskins , with the Rev Emma Louis and the choir of St Aidan's Church of England High School, directed by Cathy Roberts.
Producer Stephen Shipley E MAIL: sunday.worsmp@bbc.co.uk
With AlistairCooke.RptfromFri
With Eddie Mair. Producer Kevin Marsh
Omnibus edition.
Joining Nigel Rees are Juliet Stevenson , Ruth Brandon ,
Paul Gambaccini and Marcel Bertins. The reader is Meryl O'Keeffe. Repeated from Monday
Sheila Dillon considers the role of recipes in determining how we cook and finds out whether our
- overreliance on written instructions has led to uniformity and a lack of imagination in the kitchen. Producer Paula McGinley Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm
With James Cox.
2: The Prison of Respectability. Edi Stark concludes her series by looking at the crises faced by clergy families, who are often expected to bury their true experiences beneath a facade of living a happy, faithful and fulfilling family life. producer Edi stark
John Cushnie , Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn answer questions posed by members of the Milton-under-Wychwood Allotments and Gardens
Association, Oxfordshire. And in the GQTGarden at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, Nigel Colborn is planting up containers while Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie tackle espaliers. The chairman is Eric RobSOn. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
Gregg Wallace and Charlie Hicks continue their exploration of the past, present and future of food preservation. Today they discover how shrimps get potted and beans get tinned. Producer Rebecca Nicholson
By Thornton Wilder. Dramatised by Judith Adams.
The finest bridge in all Peru collapses and five people plunge to their deaths. An eyewitness sets himself the task of explaining why it was their fate to die.
(Repeated Saturday)
Charlie Lee-Potter looks at what's happening in the world of books. Joanna Trollope looks back to her novel The Choir. And Maggie O'Farrell makes her pick of the week's best paperbacks.
(Repeated Thursday 4pm)
(June's Bookclub: Headlong by Michael Frayn)
Presenter Frank Delaney recently moved to New York. In a special edition of the programme, recorded in and around the city, he explores his new home through its poetry, including work by Alan Ginsberg and Walt Whitman. Plus, the poem that residents have adopted as their own, to commemorate the events on USeptember last year. Producers Paul Dodgson Repeated Saturday LETTERS: Poetry Please, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR.
PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL poetry.please@bbc.co.uk
The pro-Israel lobby is possibly the most powerful influence group in Washington. Stephen Sackur explores how the lobbyists work. Repeated from Tuesday
The last of Gerry Anderson 's wry reflections on the deeds, misdeeds and mess-ups of the famous and not-so-famous in Northern Ireland. 3. Obfuscation and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Producer Simon Elmes Repeated on Saturday
Chris Serle presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
Editor Philip Sellars PHONE: [number removed](24hours) FAX: [number removed] EMAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk
A bedside vigil. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Soap and flannel with Alison Graham : page 33
The Really Wild Show presenter Nick Baker introduces a special mini-series of stories about the stranger things animals get up to. Plus an encounter with Atomic Kitten. And Brian Bowles reads the second episode of Bartlett and the Ice Voyage by Odo Hirsch. E-MAIL: [email address removed]
1958. CND, Cyprus, and the End of National
Service. Christopher Lee 's series is narrated by Anna Massey. Producer Pete Atkin
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on a series of individual audio cassettes and compact discs, as well as superb box sets. Two books to accompany the series have been published by BBC Books, www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed].
Emily Buchanan presents a kaleidoscope of excerpts from the best English language radio programmes from around the globe. Repeated from Friday
The programme about words and the way we speak. 5. Zoom. Michael Rosen is in pole position looking at the changing English language. Repeated from Friday
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Five years old, Google is the Silicon Valley company that has made sense of the internet for 100 million people all over the world. On a visit to the "Googleplex", Peter Day asks its twenty-something founders how they will turn a brilliant idea into a viable business.
Andrew Rawnsley takes a look at the politics of the next seven days. Including at 10.45 The Later Lives of Prime Ministers 3: Tony Howard tells the stories of those prime ministers who died an early death.
Editor John Evans The Later Lives of Prime Ministers: Producer Dominic Black Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm
Mike Phillips and Joan Bakewell join Rosie Boycott to recommend their favourite books, including a history of Romania, Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell , and a bOOk about COd. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Another chance to hear the last part of Peter Stead 's examination of the social and musical history of the British brass band. ProducerPaul Evans
