From St Helen's, Sefton, in Liverpool.

News round-up and analysis.

Why Do We Sing? Professor Arnold Maran was a leading surgeon who specialised in the voice and operated on some of the world's leading opera and pop singers. But why should we be able to sing in the first place? Producer Matt Thompson Repeated at 11.30pm

7/8. Meeting people who live the country life. Producer Benjamin Chesterton

Religious news, with Roger Bolton. Producer Amanda Hancox

Actor Simon Callow appeals on behalf of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Donations: [address removed]; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Choral Matins from St Anne 's Cathedral, Belfast Led by the Rev Stephen Fielding. Preacher the Very Rev
Dr Houston McKelvey , Dean of Belfast. Director of music Philip Stopford. Assistant organist Ian Barber , producer Bert Tosh

Repeated from Friday

The week's news stories, with Fi Glover. Editor Coim Hancock The most powerful people on radio: page 20

Omnibus edition.

2/6. Jeremy Hardy joins Tim Brooke-Taylor , Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. With Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Colin Sell at the piano. Repeated from Monday

Umami. Sheila Dillon is joined by molecular gastronome
Heston Blumenthal to investigate umami, the mysterious fifth flavour first identified by Japanese scientists about a hundred years ago and only recently recognised in Britain. Producer Dixi Stewart Repeated on Monday at 4pm

News and analysis, with James Cox. Editor Colin Hancock

The playwright John B Keane 's home town of Listowel,
County Kerry, was the inspiration for much of his work.
It is there, and in Dublin, that his nephew journalist
Fergal Keane hears how a country publican became a writer of international fame. Producer chrisspurr

Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions put by members of the Cliveden Reach Horticultural Societies. Eric Robson is in the chair. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor
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 [web address removed] Call [number removed]

2/5. August. Britain's first ever tea crop is being cultivated at Tregothnan, Cornwall. Matthew Harvey continues to monitor its progress at this idyllic estate on the banks of the River Fal, where this week Evelyn Boscowen explains his family's seven-century-long passion for plants. And in the kitchen garden, rabbits have attacked the tea bushes. Producer Viv Beeby

by Thomas Hardy.
1/3. While Eustacia Vye waits on Egdon Heath for her erstwhile lover Damon Wildeve, his fiancee Tamsin Yeobright has been jilted at the altar. Dramatised by David Calcutt.
(Repeated on Saturday at 9pm)

Mariella Frostrup talks to Doris Lessing about her life and work as her new novel, The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griotand the Snow Dog, is published. Producer Karen Holden Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

5/9 Roger McGough introduces requests to hear
Gerard Manley Hopkins 's masterpiece, The Wreck of the Deutschland, read by Janet Suzman.
Producer Mark Smalley Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
BBC AUDIO: A newly released special edition celebrating 25 years of Poetry Please is available on CD from all good retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed]19

2/11. In Britain, a string of food products have been withdrawn because of fears over possible risks from carcinogenic additives; but, as Jenny Cuffe reveals, it's farmers in India who are the trade's real victims. Repeated from Tuesday

3/3. In this talk from Glasgow, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Samuel Johnson 's monumental dictionary, Joe Farrell remembers Johnson's quip about oats feeding both horses and the Scots as he investigates jokes, prejudices and the Scottish 18th century.
Producer Tim Dee Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am and 7.45pm

Simon Fanshawe presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Torquil MacLeod PHONE: [number removed]0400 Fax: [number removed]email: potw@bbc.co.uk

The honeymoon's over at Lower Loxley.
For cast see page 45 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 43

Barney Harwood visits the historic Portsmouth Dockyard, home of the Royal Navy, takes a trip round the magnificent ship, the Mary Rose , and visits the fascinating Mary Rose Museum. Producers Abi Awojobi and Rebecca Armstrong

1/5. By the Sea. Mrs Owens and the Tuttlingens are staying at the same English villa on the Spanish coast, bored under the hot sun. There they encounter the formidable Mrs Parsters, a longtime local resident whose intuitions are almost infallible. Read by Phyllida Nash. Written by Canadian author Mavis Gallant. Producer Elisabeth Edwards

Roger Bolton , with listeners' opinions and comments on BBC radio programmes and policy. Repeated from Friday ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100. London W1A 10T
Phone: [number removed]0400 Fax: [number removed]email: feedback@bbc.co.uk

Geoffrey Wheeler visits Paris to tell the story of the famous Folies-Bergeres. The theatre opened its doors in 1860 but has recently revamped its image as a straight theatre. Its history as one of Europe's finest music halls continues to draw visitors from all over the world.

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeated from 7.55am

6/9. Africa Calling. Even in Africa, technology is touching the lives of the poor and bringing new opportunities to exiles returning home. Peter Day reports from Kenya and Ghana. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 The Letters Pages
3/3. A look at how certain letters in the British press have changed policy or influenced debate. Anthony Howard discusses the monetary policies that drove over three hundred economists to write to The Times in March 1981. Editor Terry Dignan The Letters Pages repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

4/9. The guide to the world of learning, with Libby Purves. Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from 6.05am

Russell Davies looks at the life of ukulele-player
George Formby. Featuring an archive recording of the late George Harrison discussing his admiration for Formby. Repeated from Thursday

The Woman in White (6/8)
Wilkie Collins 's classic adventure of treachery, embezzlement and body-swapping. Read by Dougray Scott