From St Mary's Church, llmington, Warwickshire.

News round-up and analysis.

Spoilt for Choice. Mark Tully explores the possibility that the freedom to choose is as much a burden as a boon. Producer Eley McAinsh Repeated at11.30pm

2/4. Essex Geese. Brent geese are among our rare winter visitors. Peter France penetrates the wilderness of the Essex marshes to find them. Producer Julian Hector

Religious and ethical news, with Roger Bolton.
Series producer Amanda Hancox

Peter Snow appeals on behalf of Iraqi Community Development.
Donations: [address removed] Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]44
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Survivors. From the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre,
Laxton, Nottinghamshire. Stephen Smith and Rabbi David Goldberg reflect on the many examples of dignity and fortitude to be found in the stories of survivors of both the Holocaust and recent human tragedies. Director of music Paul Leddington Wright. Producer Simon Vivian

Repeated from Friday

Fi Glover with the week's news stories. Editor Colin Hancock

Omnibus edition.

5/6. More homespun hilarity when Jeremy Hardy joins Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Barry Cryer and Humphrey Lyttelton. With Colin Sell at the piano. Repeated from Monday
BBC AUDIO: Selections from the award-winning quiz show, including the newly released I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Clue, are now available on CD and audio cassette from www.bbcshop.com and good retail outlets, or by calling [number removed]

Investigating the world of food and the stories behind what we eat. With Sheila Dillon.
Executive producer Dixi Stewart Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm

Presented by James Cox. Editor Colin Hancock

During the British invasion of Tibet 100 years ago, Captain Arthur Hadow looted a bronze Buddha statue, which he later bequeathed to his granddaughter Celia. Now she sets off to the Himalayas in the company of John Nightingale to return the stolen statue to the Dalai Lama. Along the way she reads her grandfather's letters from the front. Producer Tim Malyon

Garden designer Beth Chatto talks to Roy Lancaster while Tony Russell , Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs are guests of Chedworth and District Horticultural Society. With Gill Pyrah in the chair.
And at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
BBC AUDIO: A specially recorded edition of Gardeners' Question
Time, featuring regular team members, is available on audio cassette and CD from retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]

4/5. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Simple
Ben Rogers considers this seminal British cookbook, one of the first to aim at the woman of the household and to put British food on the map. With readings by Jean Trend. Producer Dave Battcock

1/2. For years, the villagers of Fontamara have suffered in silence but when their only source of water is diverted to irrigate the fields of a Fascist landowner, they decide to take action. One of Italy's greatest anti-Fascist novels, portraying the bitter struggles and rebellion of the peasant farmers of southern Italy during the 1930s.
By Ignazio Silone , translated by Eric Mosbacher and adapted by Andrew Farrell Readman.
Producer/Director Nadia Molinari Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Richard Mabey , author of Nature Cure: How Nature and the Imagination Can Banish Depression, talks to Mariella Frostrup. Producer Karen Holden Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

7/9. Listeners' requests, including poems by Edwin Muir and Thomas Warton the Elder, with Roger McGough. Producer Mark Smalley Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
BBC AUDIO: A newly released special edition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Poetry Please is available on CD from www.bbcshop.com and good retail outlets, or by calling [number removed]

Twenty years after the phrase "the heritage industry" first emerged, Patrick Wright investigates our changing ideas about what we value from our past, including the views of Britain's first conservation officer, campaigners hoping to save the Suffolk Punch horse, and Liz Forgan , chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund. Repeated from Tuesday

n New series 1/3. Writer and poet Gwyneth Lewis explains what happened after a round-the-world sailing trip was cut short when her husband was diagnosed with cancer.
Producer Penny Arnold Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am

A selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past week. Producer Torquil MacLeod
PHONE: [number removed]0400 Fax: [number removed]email: potw@bbc.co.uk

Alan feels the need for speed.
For cast see page 41 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 39

Barney Harwood visits a wild-bird reserve in west Sussex. Plus, Horrible History: the Vile Victorians by Terry Deary. Producer Rob Carter

5/5. Fule's Gold. A creative writing teacher, overcome by his own failed ambitions and greed, decides to pass off his pupil's masterpiece as one of his own. By Joanne Harris , read by Stephen Moore. Producer Katherine Beacon

1/10. Roger Bolton with listeners' comments and queries on BBC radio programmes and policy.
ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 10T
Phone: [number removed]400 Fax: [number removed]email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. Repeated from Friday

7/7. Opening the door on words, language and the way we speak. Presented by Michael Rosen. Repeated from Friday

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeated from 7.55am

3/8. Patents Make Perfect. The grant of patents to protect new ideas has vastly increased in recent years. Peter Day finds out why and hears from the critics who say that the patent system no longer functions. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.

RT 1/2 At last, you're a Minister, but what now?
Gyles Brandreth explains the do's and don'ts of ministerial life - how to arrive, how to survive and how to thrive.
Editor Terry Dignan The Brandreth Rules for Ministers rptd Wed 8.45pm

7/10. Baroness Amos and actor Peter Egan talk to Sue
MacGregor about their favourite paperbacks. Rptd fromTue

Repeated from 6.05am

1/5. Shazia Mirza , the UK's only female Muslim stand-up comedian, introduces some of the prose, poetry and songs that have inspired her. Repeated from Thursday

Posfe Restante (1/2)