From St Clement Danes, the Strand, London.
World Service analysis. Producer Mike Popham
Sheena McDonald considers how language and music can be used to connect people.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Eight-legged Friends. Lionel Kellewayisatthe
Solway Nature Reserve in Cumbria, home to some of Britain's biggest and most spectacular spiders. Producer Sheena Duncan
With Roger Bolton.
Series producer Rosemary Dawson EMAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk
Julie Peasgood appeals on behalf of the charity Jeans for Genes, which helps children with genetic disorders.
DONATIONS: [address removed] Credit-card donations: Freephone [number removed]. Website: www.jeansforgenes.com
Producer Fiona Couper
Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.28pm
Angels of the Harvest. A service of Mattins for
Harvest Festival and the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. With the Young People's Choir at Blackburn Cathedral, directed by Richard Tanner. Preacher: the Very Rev Christopher Armstrong , Dean of Blackburn. Producer John Kirby E-mail: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk
With Alistair Cooke.
Repeated from Friday
With Eddie Mair. Editor Kevin Marsh
Omnibus edition.
Nigel Rees exchanges favourite quotations with Valerie Grove , Charlie Lee-Potter , Christopher Matthew and John Mortimer. The reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday
Sheila Dillon investigates seeds. Who decides which varieties are sold, and why don't growing trials of fruit and vegetables take flavour into account?
(Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm)
With James Cox at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool.
6: From the Image to the Word. William Dalrymple concludes his investigation into the roots of spirituality in Britain by looking at the traumatic impact of the Reformation and, with novelist AS Byatt, assesses how the shift of emphasis from the image to the word led to the birth Of the English novel. Producer Rosemary Dawson
Matthew Biggs , Bob Flowerdew and Roy Lancaster answer questions posed by members of the Evington Garden Club, near Leicester. And at the GQTgarden at Sparsholt College, Hampshire, Bunny Guinness takes lavender cuttings, John Cushnie gives the lawn an autumn tidy and Bob Flowerdew is using a dead fridge to store apples. The chairman is Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor at 3pm
Learning Your Name DrGillian Rice investigates how animals, from seals to bottlenose dolphins, learn to recognise each Other in a crowd. Producer Joanne Stevens
By Richard Adams. A new two-part dramatisation by Neville Teller, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic novel's publication.
When the prophet Fiver predicts the destruction of their warren, not all the rabbits are prepared to listen.
Music arranged and played by Chris Leslie
Director Peter Leslie Wild
Repeated on Saturday at 9pm
Watership Down 3.00pm R4
Yes, it's a book about rabbits - but that's where the cute stuff stops. In honour of its 30th anniversary, Radio 4 presents a dramatisation of Richard Adams's brilliant allegorical fantasy adventure. Our rabbit heroes Hazel and Fiver's search for a new warren brings them into contact with the bunny equivalent of a fascist regime (complete with stormtroopers and secret police) and a far-from-benign utopia. Classic family listening it is but, like the novel, don't expect it to be comfortable. Jane Anderson
Charlie Lee-Potter explores the world of books. Producer Fiona McLean Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
October's Bookclub: A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Roger McGough presents poems that have tickled his fancy - and yours. Requests for comic verses about cocoa, parsley, booze and psychiatrists are read by Michael Elwyn , Michael Fenton Stevens , Pippa Haywood and Peter Marinker.
ProducerViv Beeby Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
Allan Urry investigates how British companies are helping to provide some of the world's most dangerous regimes with equipment to build weapons of mass destruction. Repeated from Tuesday
In Africa's biggest, dirtiest slum, on the edge of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, four boys huddle together, wrapped in whatever newspaper or cardboard they can scavenge. Each has his own reason for trying to leave. In the second of two programmes, Andrew Harding meets the cub scouts, vigilantes and others trapped in a life of poverty and finds out whether it's ever possible to escape the slum.
Producer Sue Ellis Repeated on Saturday at 7.45pm
Marcel Berlins presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
Phone: [number removed] (24 hours) Fax: [number removed] Email: [address removed]
Parties galore. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
Soap and flannel with Alison Graham : page 44
The children's magazine programme, presented by Barney Hammond
Producer Jane Chambers E-MAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk
1983: The Falklands Factor Election and Star Wars. Written by Christopher Lee and narrated by Anna Massey , with additional readings by Robert Powell. Producer PeteAtkin
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on a series of individual audio cassettes and compact discs, as well as superb boxed sets. Two books to accompany the series have been published by BBC Books, www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]
Roger Bolton rifles through BBC Radio's mailbag.
WRITE TO: Feedback. PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT. Phone: [number removed], Fax: [number removed], or Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk Repeated from Friday
Sabre Rattling. In the last of the current series, Michael Rosen examines the metaphorical language of the international standoff. Repeated from Friday
(Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm)
Repeated from 7.55am
Fly Move. As the big airlines struggle, low-cost rivals are grabbing passengers and making money. Is this the new face of the airline industry, or merely the latest fad in a business which never makes money for long? Peter Day reports. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley reports live from the Labour Party conference in Blackpool. Including at
10.45 Siberia UK Four former Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland discuss their experiences. 2: James Prior (1981-4).
Editor John Evans Siberia UK: Producer Owen McFadden Repeated on Wednesday at8.45pm
Libby Purves presents a practical guide to the world of learning. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Emily Buchanan invites foreign correspondents to remember the soundtracks to the events they reported to the world. 1: Mark Brayne , former BBC China Correspondent. Producer Simon Elmes
