From St Michael's and All Angels, Great Cumberton, Worcester.
News round-up and analysis.
Feasting and Fasting. In all cultures and religions, to feast is to celebrate and to fast is to purify. Mark Tully explores the relationship between the two. Producer Eley McAinsh Rptd 11.30pm
8/10. People who live the country life. producer Fran Barnes
Religious news, with Roger Bolton. Producer Amanda Hancox
Nigel Havers appeals on behalf of Ovarian Cancer Action.
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Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm. and on Thursday at 3.27pm
A service from St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, led by Canon Stuart Bell. Producer Roy Jenkins
Repeated from Friday
The week's news. with Paddy O'Connell. Editor Peter Rippon
Omnibus edition.
8/11. With Clement Freud , Paul Merton , Jenny Eclair ana
Graham Norton , and Nicholas Parsons in the chair. From tne Harlequin Theatre in Redhill, Surrey. Repeated from Monday
Freezing. Frozen food doesn't have the best of reputations but there's more to it than pizza and chips, as Bee Wilson discovers. Producer Paula McGinley Repeated tomorrow at4pm
News and analysis, presented by Brian Hanranan. Editors Nick Sutton and Juliette Dwyer
2/2. How damaging are the unconscious prejudices ana stereotypes that races have about each other? Munira Mirza investigates the evidence. producer joiyon Jenkins
Pippa Greenwood , Bob Flowerdew and Anne SwithinbanK answer gardeners' questions sent in by post. Chaired oy trie
Robson. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
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Alan Titchmarsh solves your gardening problems: page33
Wolf secateurs and timber plant houses: page 33
3/5. The Wettest Place. Naturalist Mike Dilger visits Borrowdale in Cumbria to meet the man who farms the wettest inhabited place in Britain, and to take a walk nearby through England's temperate rainforest. Producer Brett Westwood
A delicious satire based on Oscar Wilde's short story, dramatised by Mike Walker. A shadow is cast on Lord Arthur Savile's engagement to the lovely Sybil Merton after a palm-reading by Mr Podgers at Lady Windermere's reception.
Repeated on Saturday at 9pm
Joanne Harris , bestselling author of Chocolat and Blackberry Wine, joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss the work of science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. And comic novelist and Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs talks about his latest book, Pratt a Manger. Producer Nicola Holloway Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
"He will make you bepiss your cheeks with laughter," said Horace Walpole when he read The New Bath Guide by the poet Christopher Anstey. Biographer Kathryn Hughes travels to Bath to discover more about the writer who was the toast of Bath in 1766 and who satirised the fashions and foibles of Bath society 30 years before Jane Austen.
Producer Philippa Ritchie Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
4/9. Education reforms have left headteachers in charge of budgets worth millions, but with little outside control.
With measures designed to give schools even more financial freedom in the pipeline, Fran Abrams asks who steps in when heads step over the line. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Hugh Dennis presents his selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Torquil MacLeod
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Adam gets houseproud.
For cast see page 37 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 35
Children's magazine programme, presented by Barney Harwood. Including the final part of Fiddlesticks by Alan Fraser, read by Jonathan Howard.
5/5. A Place in the Sun. A celebration of the life of Grace Eyre Woodhead , a pioneer of care in the community. By Nicky Singer , and read by Rachel Atkins , David Collings and Jenny Funnell. Introduced by Lynne Truss. producer Celia de Wolff
Repeated from Friday
4/4. Celebrating the best and worst of musical theatre. with the focus on Broadway. It's a tragi-comic end to the series as we go Behind the Iron Mask, up the Legs
Diamond and into the mind of Carrie. With Paul Roseby. Producer Elizabeth Freestone
Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm
Repeated from 7.55am
8/8. Bright Young Things. Britain is bubbling with tiny young companies with bright ideas and big ambitions. Their proprietors seem to have an instinct for business and no fear of taking great big risks. They tell their stories to Peter Day. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 The SDP Diaspora
1/2. Mark D'Arcy examines how "refugees" from a defunct political party of the 1980s ended up at the top of the three major parties a decade later - from Tony Blair 's
Downing Street, to the heart of the Conservative Central Office campaign machine.
Editor Terry Dignan The SDP Diaspora repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm
2/7. The guide to the wide world of learning, presented by LibbyPurves. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
William McGonagall is now acknowledged as the worst poet ever, yet to be that bad takes a special genius. Long before Andy Warhol , McGonagall was snared by the lure of celebrity. Presented by Phil Kay. McGonagall is played by Paul Sneddon. Repeated from Thursday
Disgrace
(6/8) by JM Coetzee, read by Derek Jacobi. A college lecturer is forced to resign after having a relationship with his student
