From St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London.

News round-up and analysis.

Towering Babel. Mark Tully explores the meaning- or meaninglessness - of jargon, cliche and babble. How do words become emptied of meaning and how do new expressions arise? Producer Nigel Acheson Repeated at 11.30pm

New series 1/7. Country life and the people who live it. Producer Benjamin Chesterton

Moral perspectives with Roger Bolton. Series producer Amanda Hancox

Kevin McCloud appeals on behalf of the Community Self-Build Agency.
Donations: Freepost Radio 4 Appeal-Self-Build Credit cards: [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm

On Racial Justice Sunday, Linbert Spencer -commissioner on the Church's Commission for Racial Justice and government adviser on diversity and equal opportunities - reflects on the silent majority who fail to challenge the discrimination against peoples from ethnic minorities. From the Salvation Army Centre in Wood Green in London. Producer Mark O'Brien

Repeated from Friday

R Glover with the week's news stories. Editor Peter Rippon

Omnibus edition.

6/6. Sue MacGregor reunites the team behind the founding of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Producer David Prest

Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious panel game in Edinburgh, with panellists Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Rob Brydon and Marcus Brigstocke. Repeated from Monday

British Charcuterie. From traditional York hams to cured wild boar, Simon Parkes examines the past and future of British charcuterie.
Producer Margaret Collins Extended repeattomorrowat4pm

Presented by James Cox. Editor Peter Rippon

2/4. No blushes are spared in Paul Roseby 's trawl through musical theatre's glorious failures. Kit Hesketh-Harvey talks about Y, a bizarre cabaret affair starring a quick-change illusionist, and Which Witch, agoth rock opera written by two Norwegians. Musical director
Martin Lowe remembers Moby Dick, which featured a group ofStTrinian's schoolgirls putting on a show about the great white whale. Producer Elizabeth Freestone

Bob Flowerdew , Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs are guests of Wraxall Village Association, near Nailsea, north Somerset. Eric Robson is in the chair.
2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A specially recorded edition of Gardeners' Question Time, featuring regularteam members, is available on audio cassette and CD from retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

2/5. LaMortellaonlschia. Susan Marlmgtalks to Lady Susanna Walton in the tropical garden that she created as a delightful setting in which her husband.
William Walton , could compose. Since his death it has become a much visited attraction and a venue for musical performances. Producer Kate Bland

2/2. Charles Pooter continues his diary. His happy domestic routine has been disturbed by the return nome of his wayward and happy-go-lucky son, Lupin. Written by George and Weedon Grossmith and starring Stephen Tompkinson. Dramatised by Kelvin Segger.
Pianist Paul Herbert Director Jenny Stephens Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Maev Kennedy talks to writer Anita Desai about her new novel The Zigzag Way and to Alexandra Fuller, author of the bestselling memoir Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, about her new book that describes her unusual friendship with an African farmer.

(Repeated on Thursday at 4pm October)
Bookclub: How the Dead Live by Will Self

5/6. Ian McMillan meets people who turn to poetryfor inspiration or solace at key moments in their lives.
Retirement. McMillan meets and discusses poetrywith David Stewart , due to retire in September 2004, and his wife Christine, as they take part in a workshop run by the Pre-Retirement Association. Tony Chivers , from the PRA, talks about its work and the importance of preparing for this new phase in life. Producer David Hunter Repeated Sat 11.30pm

2/2. Syria. Allan Little, the BBC's Paris correspondent, visits Damascus, where he gets exceptional access to the ruling elite to ask about change. From the prime minister to the president's personal adviser on reform-all are talking about the need for a shake up. But is talk all it is? Repeated from Tuesday

1/3. Why do we think it's so great to have 38 different types of coffee to choose from?
Aren't we all exhausted from the constant demands on us to choose which item to pick from the drop-down menus on our computer screens - or whether to sell our homes and down-shift to the Welsh countryside? Lynne Truss vents her spleen on an aspect of modern life that has been dressed up as freedom - the burden of choice.
(Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am)
Lynne Truss on having too much choice: page 35

Hugh Dennis presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days. producer Alison Vernon-Smith
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The new Lucky is put to the test.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 38

Featuring the fifth episode of The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot. Presented by Barney Harwood. Producer Jane Chambers

5/5. A Willing Slave. The faithful ayah devotes her life to the youngest child of the family she works for, until someone from her past suddenly returns. Read by NinaWadia. Producer Carol Bayne

5/6. More aural delights from English-language radio stations around the world. Presented by Emily Buchanan. Repeated from Friday

6/8. Michael Rosen presents the programme that celebrates words and language. Repeated from Friday

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeatedfrom 7.55am

1/9. Jobs on the Line. Volkswagen have created a revolutionary production line, employing only people who were previously out of work. Peter Day reports on a project designed to cut costs enough to keep car manufacturing alive in the heart Of Europe. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 The New Powers That Be
New series 1/3. There are more than 100 regulators in the UK. But how much do we know about them? Dinah Lammiman meets the rail regulator Tom Winsorto find out how much power he actually has.
Editor Terry Dignan The New Powers That Be repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Cookery writer and novelist Prue Leith and Lembit Opik MP talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books. Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from 6.05am

5/5. Richard Ingrams introduces some of his favourite pieces of writing from this summer's Ludlow Festival of Literature. Repeated from Thursday