From Exeter Cathedral.
South African children's writer Beverley Naidoo reflects on her trip to Ghana.
Mark Tully considers the colourful history, symbolism and fantasy that carpets and tapestries hold within their threads.
(Repeated at 11.30pm)
Lionel Kelleway joins Mike Majerus to take a look at the seedier side of the gardener's friend and children's favourite.
With Roger Bolton.
Juliet Stevenson appeals on behalf of One World Action. This international development charity works with communities, helping people to solve problems and speak for themselves.
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(Repeated 9.26pm and Thursday 3.27pm)
A service from St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, led by Canon Stuart Bell.
With Alistair Cooke.
(Repeated from Friday)
With Eddie Mair.
Omnibus edition.
Exchanging favourite quotations and anecdotes with Nigel Rees this week are Christopher Lee, Roy Hudd, Kate Adie and Mary-Ann Sieghart. The reader is Peter Jefferson.
(Repeated from Monday)
It can be found in two-thirds of all manufactured foods, has been at the centre of the genetic modification row and is the subject of numerous health claims.
This week Sheila Dillon examines the soya bean.
(Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm)
Tips of the week: page 33
With James Cox.
Another chance to hear a programme first broadcast in the It's My Story slot. Last year, the Damilola Taylor murder trial collapsed after a crucial witness, a 14-year-old girl, had her evidence torn to shreds in court. Now branded a "grass" by her peers and disowned by the police, she lives in hiding. She tells her story to John Waite.
John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs are guests of the Comber and District Horticultural Society in Northern Ireland. Matthew Biggs and Bob Flowerdew get a glimpse behind the scenes at John Cushnie's garden. Eric Robson is in the chair.
(Shortened at 3pm)
Jessica Holm explores the evolution of feathers with the aid of fossils of small dinosaurs found in China a few years ago.
The possible origins of flight, from ground-up to trees-down.
By Somerville and Ross, dramatised in two parts by Anne Haverty
A satire on Anglo-Irish society in 19th-century Ireland.
When respectable spinster Charlotte Mullen is reluctantly obliged to look after her penniless young cousin, she decides she must marry her off to a rich man as soon as possible. However, Francie is extremely pretty and wilful.
(Repeated on Saturday at 9pm)
Mariella Frostrup talks to Helen Dunmore about her new novel Mourning Ruby, a meditation on grief, and finds out more about the internationally loved stories of the "wise fool", Nasrudin.
(Repeated on Thursday at 4pm)
Roger McGough introduces a selection of listeners' favourite poems, read by David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash. He also pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year.
(Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm)
Edward Stourton looks at the role and future of the UN.
A look at the history and relationship between the UN and the US, from the founding of the UN, through the paralysis of the Cold War, to the crises in Somalia and Kosovo. With contributions from former US secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and James Baker, former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and US Ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Charles Handy meditates on a Tuscan hilltop about the lessons to be learned from the Italian way of life.
(Repeated on Saturday at 7.45pm)
Graeme Garden with his selection of excerpts from BBC Radio over the past seven days.
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Joe has a birthday bash.
(Repeated tomorrow at 2pm)
Soap & Flannel with Alison Graham: page 36
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This week Barney Harwood visits his old primary school near Blackpool. Children's comedian James Campbell teaches Barney a thing or two about comedy, and ape expert Pete Ellis explains how he is paid to monkey about with the stars. Plus the next episode of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, read by Helen McCrory.
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by Panos Karnezis, read by John Rowe.
Peasant life on a Greek island is a little more complicated than it might appear to the passing holidaymaker.
Roger Bolton with listeners' views on what they've heard on BBC Radio.
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(Repeated from Friday)
The programme about words and the way we speak.
Michael Rosen is in the bedroom, this week. Will he know his valance from his candlewick?
(Repeated from Friday)
(Repeat from Saturday at 12.04pm)
Repeat of 7.55am
From brand-conscious Moscow and the heavily industrial provincial city of Nizhny Novgerod, Peter Day reports on business life in the new Russia.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Presented by Andrew Rawnsley at the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton.
Including at 10.45 Triumphs and Disasters
In the first of a new series on famous by-elections, Steve Richards looks back to the battle for Oxford in 1938.
(Triumphs and Disasters repeated Wed 8.45pm)
Sue MacGregor is joined by geneticist Steve Jones and broadcaster Fi Glover to discuss their favourite literature.
(Repeated from Tuesday)
Repeated from 6.05am
The second of two programmes looking at music and childhood, with Michael Rosen.
