From St Nicholas's Church, Leeds in Kent.
A roundup of news from BBC World Service.
The Insistent Moon. Novelist Margaret Drabble considers the enduring mysteries of the Moon: its role in Earth's survival and its haunting powers Of inspiration. Producer EleyMcAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm
Anna Hill meets people who live the real country life. Executive producer Steve Peacock
Religion, ethics and morals, with Jane Little. Series producer Amanda Hancox
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks appeals on behalf of Habitat for Humanity
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A series for Advent. 1: The incarnation of God explored through the experiences of old people.
From St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. With the Rt Rev Michael Hare Duke and the Very Rev Griff Dines. Cathedral choir directed by Fridrik Walker. Producer Mo McCullough
With Al i Sta i r Cooke. Repeated from Friday
With Gavin Esler.
Omnibus edition.
From the Theatre Royal in Winchester where Sandi Toksvig joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer, with Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Colin Sell at the piano. Repeated from Monday
Sheila Dillon announces the winners of this year's awards from a glittering ceremony at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham.
(Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm)
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Sheila Dillon announces the winners in the 2003 BBC Food and Farming Awards from a ceremony at the BBC Good Food Show. Guests include Jamie Oliver, John Craven and Ken Hom.
With James Cox.
Editor Richard Clark
Emily Buchanan presents the series that asks foreign correspondents about the music that recalls significant moments in their careers.
1: Today's edition features Sorious Samura from
Sierra Leone, whose film Cry Freetown documents the bloody civil war of his home country. Producer Merilyn Harris
Roy Lancaster , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions at the Wainfleet and District Horticultural Society in Lincolnshire. Eric Robson is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened at 3pm
4: Richard Uridge visits the Lost Gardens of Heligan nearSt Austell in Cornwall where he finds a tree, a relative of the culinary bay tree, that's so potent it can give you a headache, and anothertree that can Offer a cure for it. Producer Sandra Keating
By John Wyndham.
The first of Dan Rebellato's two-part dramatisation of the gripping science-fiction classic about alien impregnation overturning the prim and proper world of a sleepy English village.
(Repeated on Saturday)
[Photo caption] There is something similar about a the children in the village of Midwich. Similar, and strangely sinister ...
The Midwich Cuckoos 3.00pm R4
This has to be one of the best dramatisations on radio this year. Writer Dan Rebellato has ensured the dark anxieties of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel are exploited to the full, and director Polly Thomas has delivered a play seething with tension, emotional frissons and breakneck excitement (especially in the denouement next week). Bill Nighy and Sarah Parish combine a lightness of touch in the opening scenes as a bright, capable married couple - before they are plunged into the terrifying setting of an English country village in the 1950s, where all the fertile women have been impregnated by aliens. Their offspring are so similar and so sinister that no parent, after listening to this, will ever wish their child was more intellectually gifted. Best of all, though, is Nicholas R Bailey as the troubled army sergeant, Alan, who ends up feeling totally emasculated by events in the village. It's a long way from his recent role as Dr Anthony Trueman in EastEnders and evidently gave him a fabulous opportunity to focus on his voice - rather than listen to Kat Slater's.
Francis Spufford considers teen fiction. It's a big part of the book market but are young adults well served by books aimed at them and which of the current crop are the best? Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
Sufism is a mystical branch of the Muslim religion which, 800 years ago, produced one of its greatest poets - Rumi, the founder of the whirling dervishes. Judith Palmer reports from a meeting of the Rumi Society held in Paddington Library-the unlikely setting for an evening of transcendental music, dance and poetry, featuring Vida Kashizadeh. Producer Peter Everett Repeated on Saturday
Major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad, with Julian O'Halloran. Repeated from Tuesday
Another chance to hear the first of two letters by acclaimed travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she describes how her childhood in rural Ireland shaped her lifetime of adventures. Producer Caroline Barbour
Quentin Cooper presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
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Lynda's back on form.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
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Another bumper edition of reports and competitions, and the first part of the classic story The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken , read by Doon MacKichan. Producer Johnny Leagas
Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Five stories about the bitterness of love, by Amanda Smyth and Hanan al-Shaykh . 4: The
White Peacock of Holland Park by Hanan al-Shaykh . Lonely in London, Yasmin brings her fantasies from Lebanon to Holland Park. Read by Sirine Saba . Producer Lisa Osborne
Roger Bolton with listeners' views on BBC radio. ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT Phone: [number removed] email: feedback@bbc.co.uk Producer Sue Bonner Repeated from Friday
Star comedians and expert improvisers explain the mysteries of improvised comedy, with a large selection of clips to prove the point. Comedian and improviser Enn Reitel presents this exploration of an art form that is being used widely- and notjust for comedy. Producer/WriterTuranAli
Repeated from Saturday at 12.04pm
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Development on the Front Line. Is the war on terror boosting development policy or undermining it? Kirsty Hughes asks whether the money and attention currently directed at Iraq and other US priorities are being diverted from countries in greater need, and whether counter-terrorism is
Compatible With development. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley previews the new week's political events. Including at 10.45 Hoggart's Week. Simon Hoggart , political sketch writer of The Guardian, takes a sideways look at the week's events in the Westminster village and, if he's lucky, a little beyond. Editor John Evans Hoggart 's Week repeated Wednesday8.45pm
The intelligent guide to the wide world of learning, with LibbyPurves. Repeated from Tuesday
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Ever since the bicycle was unveiled at the Paris
Exhibition of 1867, it has inspired music of all kinds. Alan Bennett and Dervla Murphy are among those who talk to cyclist Graeme Fife about the music of the two-wheeler and about the sound of the machine itself. Producer Richard Bannerman
