From St Mary's Church, Lymm, Cheshire.

World Service analysis. Producer Mike Popham

To mark the United Nations International Year of Mountains, Mark Tully explores the allure, the symbolism and the vulnerability of the earth's mountains. Producer Beverley McAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

The programme that gets to the heart of country life. Producer Hugh O'Donnell

With Edward Stourton.
Series producer Rosemary Dawson Email: sunday@bbc.co.uk

Libby Purves appeals on behalf of a charity that campaigns for ethical and fairly traded tourism, particularly in poorer countries.
DONATIONS: Tourism Concern, [address removed] Credit-card donations: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Anne-Marie Cole
Repeated 9.25pm and Thursday 3.28pm

Continuing to mark Black History Month, Ben Dotsei Malor travels home to Ghana. Accompanied by a feast of exuberant church music, he uncovers a wealth of spirit amid the poverty as he travels from Accra to Cape Coast - Britain's headquarters at the height of the slave trade -via the goldmines and forests of the Ashanti kingdom and the dusty northern savannah.
ProducerClaire Campbell Smith Email: [email address removed]

With AlistairCooke. RptdfromFri

With Eddie Mair. Editor Kevin Marsh

Omnibus edition.

Nigel Rees exchanges favourite quotations with Jo Caulfield , Neil Mullarkey , Magnus Magnusson and Allan Massie. The reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Food and Regeneration. Sheila Dillon explores the role of food in both urban and rural regeneration and finds out how a humble cheese has re-invigorated the economy of an impoverished region of southern Italy. Producer Rebecca Wells Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm

With James Cox.

British teacher Veronica White presents the first of two programmes on how American schools mould young adults. Students talkabout the rituals that have defined their year. Producer Allison Puranik

Pippa Greenwood , John Cushnie and Roy Lancaster are in the potting shed answering questions sent in by post. The chairman is Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened at 3pm

2: The Nightingale Roor. Isabel Clouter continues her quest around the globe in search of disappearing sounds. Today she's in Japan tryingto uncover the secret of temple floors which tweet like nightingales at even the lightest of footsteps. Producer Sarah Taylor

By George MacDonald Fraser. Dramatised in two episodes by the Author. 2: In possession of secret intelligence vital to the safety of British India, our terrified hero, the renowned cad, bounder, blackguard, liar, lecher and self-confessed coward Sir Harry Rashman VC, finds himself ridingwith the descendants of Tamurlaine and Genghis Khan against the might of Imperial Russia.
Director Patrick Rayner Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Rosie Goldsmith explores the world of books. Producer Fiona McLean Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
November's Bookclub: The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests from the Birmingham Book Festival, with readers Carole Boyd and Bill Wallis and musician Andy Roberts.
Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

With the threat of war in the Gulf looming, Jordan now faces the Middle East's most difficult balancing act. Economically reliant on the United States, but even more so on trade with its neighbour Iraq, can this strategically and diplomatically important kingdom avoid taking sides? Julian O'Halloran reports. Repeated from Tuesday

The first of three talks by Thomas Lynch.
1: Tommy and Nora: Don't Forget. Undertakerand poet Thomas Lynch looks back on the life of his great grandfather (also Thomas Lynch )who, in the winter of 1889, having surveyed his unpromising prospects in Ireland, left the family's tiny stone cottage in West Clare and booked a passage for America. Producer Kate McAII Repeated on Saturday at 7.45pm

Quentin Cooper presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
Phone [number removed] (24 hours) Fax: [number removed] Email: [address removed]

Simon grovels. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Soap and flannel with Alison Graham : page 50

Barney Harwood begins a search for the stars at the Greenwich Planetarium. Plus the latest instalment of the mad goings-on of the Strega-Borgia family in Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori.
Producer Jane Chambers Email: gfi@bbc.co.uk

1987: The Great Debate, Black Monday and the Great Storm. Written by Christopher Lee. Producer Pete Atkin 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 1.30pm

Greg Proops is our guide to the time when listening to comedy records at parties was hip.
3: BHICosby. Now he's the king of American sitcom but in the 1960s he was the first black comedian to break through in the comedy album scene. Producer Dave Batchelor

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeated from 7.55am

Risky Business. It's one of Britain's biggest and most successful industries but now it's in trouble. Peter Day asks whetherthe roof is failing in on Britain's insurance industry. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley looks ahead to the Conservative Party conference. Including at
10.45 Hoggart's Week. Simon Hoggart presents a behind-the-scenes review of the week's political events. Editor John Evans Hoggart Week Producer Jane Ashley 8.45pm

With LibbyPurves. RptdfromTue

Repeated from 6.05am

Emily Buchanan invites foreign correspondents to remember the music that provided the soundtracks to the events they reported to the world.
4: ITN's Michael Nicholson recalls the ubiquitous propaganda song he heard daily during the Vietnam war, the recording he made of Angolan freedom fighters harmonising sweetly in the middle of a war-scorched forest, and Albinoni's Adagio on the Streets Of Sarajevo. Producer Simon Elmes