From St Thomas the Martyr. Oxford.

News round-up and analysis.

Survival. Mike Wooldridge considers the miracle of human survival in extraordinary circumstances. What conditions and traits ensure that some people survive where others, in the same circumstances, succumb? Producer Eley McAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

7/8. A look at country life. Producer Benjamin Chesterton

Religious news, with Roger Bolton. Producer Amanda Hancox

Jonathan Dimbleby appeals on behalf of VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas).
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Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. The first in a series of Advent services. From King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen. Luke 4, vv14-30. With
Professor Gordon Graham and the Chaplain, the Rev Easter Smart. Director Of music Roger Williams. Producer Mo McCullough

Repeated from Friday

A fresh look at the week's news stories. Editor Peter Rippon

Omnibus edition.

2/7. Jeremy Hardy joins regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor ,
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer , and reluctant chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. With Colin Sell at the piano. From the London Palladium. Repeated from Monday

The winners of this year's BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards are revealed by Sheila Dillon. Her guests include Jamie Oliver , Gordon Ramsay and Rick Stein. Producer Rebecca Moore Repeated tomorrow at 4pm
Review of the year and Jamie Oliver DVD offer: page 15

The winners of the 2005 BBC Food and Farming Awards are revealed.

News and analysis, with Shaun Ley. Editor Colin Hancock

2/2. Where do new policies come from and how far are they influenced by the media and by Gordon Brown ? Steve Richards talks to former advisers to Tony Blair about their time in Downing Street. Producer Peter Mulligan

Anne Swithinbank , Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw answer questions from members of the Long Sutton Gardening Club, near Langport, Somerset. Eric Robson is in the chair. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor
Shortened repeat at 3pm
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2/5. Peter Grimes. Simon Halsey visits Aideburgh in Suffolk in search of the inspiration behind Benjamin Britten 's opera. Producer Sara Conkey

2/4. Frederic Raphael adapts and narrates his own novel. The friends reach the end of their Cambridge careers and have to face up to life in the real world. Adam's apparent denial of his Jewishness upsets his family.
Producer/Director Pete Atkin Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Kate Mosse looks at the world of fiction for teenagers. producer Nicola Holloway Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

2/6. The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost 's poem was recently and overwhelmingly voted America's favourite verse.
There it is held up as an example of rugged individualism - a sort of poetic version of My Way. But some, including Frost's biographer, see this as a misinterpretation of an altogether more enigmatic message. Presenter
Peggy Reynolds is joined by Jay Parini , Sean Street , Matt Harvey and Janet Street-Porter . Producer VivBeeby Rptd Sat 11.30pm

7/10. Brussels has 15,000 lobbyists whose job is to try to influence European policy. But does a lack of regulation and transparency allow them and their corporate clients too much influence over the decisions that are made? Sarah Spiller reports. Repeated from Tuesday

11/15. Every week an international writer reflects on the latest developments - political, cultural and social - in their part of the world. This weekend, French journalist Esther Leneman reflects on the state of secondary education in France. Repeated from Saturday at 5.45am and 7.45pm

A selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Torquil MacLeod
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Usha turns a few heads.
For cast see page 40 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 39

Featuring the penultimate part of Adeline Yen Mah 's story The Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society.
Children's magazine programme, with Barney Harwood. Producers Rebecca Armstrong and Abi Awojobi

4/5. Auspicious Occasion 1/2. Rustomji is consumed by fleshly torments while his wife Mehroo prepares for an important visit to the fire-temple. By Rohinton Mistry , read by Nitin Ganatra and abridged by Lauris Morgan -Griffiths. Producer Viv Beeby

Roger Bolton selects listeners' comments and redirects them towards BBC radio programme and policy makers. Repeated from Friday

For 60 years, the entertainment industry has mined a rich vein of comedy out of the Second World War.
Paul Jackson investigates the war's enduring appeal to British comedians and traces how their response to the subject has changed but never gone away. Producer Neil George

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2/7. The Trade Trap. Everyone seems to agree that better trade brings wealth to rich and poor countries, so why are crucial global trade talks in Hong Kong next month prompting such pessimism? Diane Coyle reveals how the deals done there might affect us all. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.

2/3. How much do we know about the regulators who have so much power and watch over our daily lives?
Kirsten Lass talks to David Norgrove , chairman of the new pensions regulator. At a time when headlines scream about yet another pensions crisis, he explains why he believes pensions are good and healthy.
Editor Terry Dignan The New Powers That Be is repeated on Wed at 8.45pm

Repeated from Tuesday

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Britain's first professional theatre-in-the-round was founded in Scarborough 50 years ago by Stephen Joseph. Robert Powell visits the theatre and talks to Alan Ayckbourn , Tom Courtenay , Peter Cheeseman , Alison Chitty and Martin Carthy about their experience of this intimate and unusual space. Repeated from Thursday

A Suitable Boy (16/20) by Vikram Seth