From All Saints Church, Basingstoke in Hampshire.
Lynne Truss confirms sporting prejudices.
1: Great Day Out.... if you like cold, rain, pies, idiots, crowds, queues, absence of information, trafficjams,jobsworths ... Producer Kate McAII (R)
What Life Expects of Us. West End musical diva
Maria Friedman plays interesting excerpts of Yiddish music and examples of prose and poetry which show the resilience of the human spirit. Producer Matt Thompson Repeated at 11.30pm
Stone Curlew. Brett Westwood heads off at dusk to hear the haunting song of the stone curlew.
Populations of these distinctive birds are once again on the rise, thanks to the efforts of the RSPB. Producer Caroline Williams
Series producer Amanda Hancox EMAIL:sunday@bbc.co.uk
Baroness Greenfield appeals on behalf of Mentor
UK, a charity that is researching and evaluating effective drug abuse prevention schemes.
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Producer Sally Flatman Repeated 9.26pm and Thursday 3.28pm
Wesley's Chapel in London celebrates the legacy of John Wesley , born 300 years ago this week. Among the contributors is his most recent biographer,
Roy Hattersley. Service led by the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
Music director Andrew Parnell. Organist Alex Flood. Producer Norman Winter
With AlistairCooke.Rptd from Fri
Eddie Mair presents a fresh approach to the news. Editor Richard Clark
Omnibus edition.
From the Buxton Opera House on the occasion of its
100th annniversary. Harry Hill joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair and Colin Sell is at the piano. Repeated from Monday
The Triumph of French
Gastronomy Gerard Bakerfinds out how French chefs conquered English kitchen culture.
Producer Dave Battcock Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm
With James Cox.
Sixty years ago, a group of undercover Norwegian saboteurs destroyed the precious heavy-water supplies at a production plant in western Norway and ended Germany's chances of developing the atom bomb during the Second World War. Julian Pettifertravels to Norway to meet the surviving members of that operation, who became known as the Telemark heroes. Producer David Prest (R)
John Cushnie. Matthew Biggs and Bob Flowerdew answer questions posed by gardeners in North
Yorkshire. And at the programme's own garden near Winchester, Bunny Guinness looks at different methods of ageing stone. Bob Rowerdew gives an update on his potatoes growing in a tyre and Pippa Greenwood explains how to control aphids. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
Lucinda Lambton finds magical sights in unlikely places 3: Scott's Grotto. In a 1960s suburban street at Ware. there's an 18th-century grotto built by a Quaker poet. Producer Peter Everett
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English establishment continues with further books dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. The Affair
Lewis Eliot returns to Cambridge and finds himself caught up in a scandal that threatens to ruin the reputation of both his old college and his best friend.
Producers Sally Avens and Jeremy Howe Repeated Saturday 9pm
Mariella Frostrup talks to Zoe Heller about her new book Notes on a Scandal, and about writing from different racial perspectives.
Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
July's Bookclub: The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle
Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems on the colour of summer.
Producer Frances Byrnes Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
The European sugar industry has long been kept sweet by subsidies that cost consumers around
L5 billion a year. But now, EU proposals on reform are threatening a bitter future. Reporter Fran Abrams. Repeated from Tuesday
A look at a vanished England in which the reality of industrial labour was denied for a romantic
Countryside Vision. Producer Daniel Tetlow Repeated Sat 7.45
Charles Wheeler presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
Producer Kate Murphy PHONE: [number removed] (24 hours) FAX: [number removed] EMAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk
Nettle-eating nominations. Repeated tomorrow 2pm Soap & Flannel with Alison Graham : page 38
Jan Gendal takes a look at the influence folklore has had on magical stories throughout history, and Philip Ardagh tells of Mrs Sage. the first English woman to go up in a balloon, in 1785. Plus the final part of Brooksie by Neil Arksey , read by Ralf Little. Producer: Johnny V Leagas EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk
5: William and the Badminton Racket. In the last of this series of Richmal Crompton stories,
Martin Jarvis reveals how William's village is taken over by a craze for badminton.
Producer Rosalind Ayres Director Pete Atkin (R)
Roger Bolton with listeners' views and opinions on BBC radio programmes and policy. Repeated from Friday ADDRESS: Feedback. PO Box 2100, London, W1A 1QT. FAX: [number removed]. PHONE: [number removed]. EMAIL: feedback@bbc.co.uk
In the first of two programmes, Harry Thompson finds out how a glimmer of an idea is transformed into an award-winning comedy.
Producers Tom Alban and Elizabeth Abrahams (R)
Repeat of yesterday 12.04pm
Repeat of 7.55am
Growing Pains. What stops small businesses getting bigger? Peter Day finds out. Rptd from Thursday
A look at the politics of the next seven days with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45 Culture and Anarchy. Simon Heffer draws lessons forthe present day from Matthew Arnold 's Culture and Anarchy. 1: Sweetness and Light
Editor John Evans Culture and Anarchy repeated Wednesday8.45pm
The wide world of learning, with Libby Purves. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
Three immigrant communities reflect on the role music plays in bridging past and present lives. 1: Armenians: My Book, My Mountain, Myself Presented byReem Kelani. Producer Tony Phillips (R)
