From Canterbury Cathedral.

News round-up and analysis.

The Theft of Time. Why do so many inventions designed to make more time actually deprive us of it - time to reflect, time to create, or time to be? With
MarkTully. Producer EleyMcAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

4/10. Caz Graham meets a man who is trying to preserve the history and tradition of Britain's heavy horses, some now rarer than the giant panda. Producer Fran Barnes

Religious news, with Roger Bolton. Producer Amanda Hancox

An appeal on behalf of Computer Aid International.
Donations: [address removed] BBC Radio 4 Appeal, marked Computer Aid on the back of the envelope; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm, and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Faith under Fire. Canon John Young and Andrew Tunick reflect on religious persecution. From the Bar Convent, York. With the Ebor Singers, directed by Paul Gameson. Producer Stephen Shipley

Repeated from Friday

News, presented by Matthew Bannister. Editor Peter Rippon

Omnibus edition.

4/11. With panellists Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Tim Rice and Stephen Fry. Repeated from Monday

Exploring the food issues of the day.
Producer Alice Feinstein Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

News and analysis, presented by Brian Hanrahan. Editors Nick Sutton and Juliette Dwyer

3/3. Until the 1950s, Aboriginal women were often taken by force by white Australians and disguised as men to evade the authorities. They became known as the Drovers' Boys. Linda Pressly goes into the Australian outback to explore the story of those violent and exploitative times. Producer Tanya Datta

John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions from gardeners in Surrey, and Anne Swithinbank creates the perfect pond. Chaired by Gill Pyrah. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
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4/5. Not Just Any Metal Gates. From the tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the great gates at Hampton Court, David Petersen explores the emergence of blacksmiths who specialise in decorative ironwork. Producer Martin Kurzik

3/6. This Real Night. Rebecca West 's trilogy, dramatised by Robin Brooks. Rose and her sister Mary are studying to be professional pianists, but their talentless sister is already attracting attention on the concert platform. They are still isolated by their father's poverty and improvidence. His brilliant but wayward mind is now driving him nearer and nearer to ruin.
Music by David Pickvance ; Producers Claire Grove and Cherry Cookson : Director Jonquil Panting Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Historian Stella Tillyard talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new history exploring the secret lives of George Ill 's siblings in A Royal Affair.
Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday at 4pm February Bookclub: Holidays in Hell by PJ O'Rourke

5/8. Listeners' requests for poems exploring family dynamics, including works by Carol Ann Duffy ,
Liz Lochhead and Patrick Kavanagh. With Roger McGough. Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
BBC AUDIO: A 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]

The North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia are both celebrating 50 years of independence from French colonial rule. They're two of the most pro-West states in the Arab world and both claim to be on the road to political democracy. Yet young Moroccans and Tunisians are prominent among those accused of involvement in Islamic terror groups in western Europe. Mark Whitaker investigates. Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Olivia O'Leary presents her selection of excerpts from
BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Torquil MacLeod PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: potw@bbc.co.uk

Lynda gets a new mission.
For cast see page 31 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 30

The children's magazine programme, hosted by Barney Harwood and featuring the second part of Fiddlesticks by Alan Fraser , read by Jonathan Howard. Producers Rebecca Armstrong and Abi Awojobi

2/5. The Buzz of the Day. By John Peacock. The tragic and moving tale of Maria Fitzherbert and her secret marriage to the Prince Regent. Read by Jill Balcon and introduced by Lynne Truss. Producer Celia de Wolff

2/11. Roger Bolton selects listeners' comments, queries and criticisms, redirecting them towards BBC radio programme and policy makers. Repeated from Friday ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 10T
Phone: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: feedback@bbc.co.uk

9/9. Michael Rosen presents the programme that looks at words and where they come from. Repeated from Friday

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeated from 7.55am

4/8. There's Oil in Them Thar Sands. For decades, experts have known about the vast reserves of oil locked up in tar sands in central Canada. For decades, they have been too expensive to exploit but now the high world oil price has made the oil sands worth developing. Peter Day reports from the great Alberta Oil Rush. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 Mr Ambassador
2/2. John Bruton , former taoiseach of Ireland and currently Europe's ambassador to the United States, talks about relations between America and the EU, which he regards as "the most important economic relationship in world history".
Editor Terry Dignan Mr Ambassador is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

8/10. Anna Ford and Paul Morley join Sue MacGregorto discuss their favourite paperbacks. Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from 6.05am

3/5. Writer and stand-up comedian Stewart Lee introduces a selection of his favourite poetry and prose to an audience at The Shed in North Yorkshire. Highlights range from Ray Bradbury to Joe Oueenan and from
Wyndham Lewis to William Blake. Repeated from Thursday

World Business Report

The Hejaz Railway (2/4)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas: (1/5) Patricia, Edith and Arnold read by Sian Phillips