The bells of St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon.
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Expanding God. Mike Wooldridge explores how our expanding knowledge of the cosmos challenges us to expand our vision of God. He talks to Professor Keith Ward , who believes that we must rethink our imagery of creation and of heaven. There may be millions of years of evolution still to come, he suggests, and God's plan for intelligent life may hardly have begun. Producer EleyMcAinsh Rptdat11.30pm
Meeting people who live the country life. producer Fran Barnes
Religious and ethical news, presented by Edward Stourton. Producer Amanda Hancox
Wendy Craig appeals on behalf of the Leprosy Mission.
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Producer Sally Flatman
Repeated at 9.26pm, and on Thursday at 3.27pm
From the Charles Wood Summer School, St Patrick's s Cathedral, Armagh. Producer Rev Robert Tosh
Repeated from Friday
The week's news. With Justin Webb. Editor Peter Rippon
Omnibus edition.
8/11. Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game from the Pleasance in Edinburgh. Repeated from Monday
The second of two programmes focusing on meat production in the USA. A hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle rocked America with its expose of the meat-packing plants of Chicago. As a result, legislation was brought in to improve meat quality and working conditions. However, a century on, Sheila Dillon discovers that The Jungle has disturbing echoes for the USA today.
(Repeated tomorrow at 4.04pm)
Global news, with Shaun Ley. Editor Colin Hancock
2/3. Pulp f rontman Jarvis Cocker explores the connections between British art schools and pop. The
1960s and 70s saw numerous pop groups springing from a freethinking art-school background. But successive governments were concerned about the kind ot education art schools were offering, producer Bob Dickinson
John Cushnie. Bob Flowerdew and Anne swithinbank answer questions from gardeners in Merseyside. And at the GOT garden, Anne Swithinbank gives a detailed guide to pruning rambling roses, Bob Flowerdew explains the different methods for successfully removing blanket and duck weed from ponds, and Chris Beardshaw decapitates dahlias. Eric Robson is in the chair. Including at
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Anne Swithinbank answers gardeners' questions in the September issue of Good Homes Magazine
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5/5 Julian Richards concludes the story of Portland stone and the men who quarried it by asking whether the future for the industry is to go underground. And what does one do with a worked-out quarry?
2/2. Life in Erewhon is becoming uncomfortable for Higgs. He is under suspicion from the evil Professor Mahaina for possessing a music box and his beloved Arowhena is about to be arrested for the serious offence of having a head cold. Samuel Butler 's satire on Victorian society is dramatised by Eamonn O'Neill , Martin Shea and James O'Neill.
Producer/Director Gary Brown Repeated on Saturday at 9pm
Mariella Frostrup talks to publishers, agents and booksellers about the current state of the book industry. Producer Nicola Holloway Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
In the first of several programmes this week marking the centenary of John Betjeman 's birth,
Roger McGough celebrates his poetry, with readings by Stephen Fry , Miriam Margolyes and Samuel West. producer Christine Hall Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
Terrorists usually attack urban targets, but America and Britain are now said to be vulnerable to an even deadlier threat - to agriculture and the food supply. Simon Cox reports on the silent threat of agro-terrorism. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Peter White presents his selection of excerpts from
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Ed gets back in the saddle.
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Lauren St John talks to Barney Harwood about her debut novel, The White Giraffe, which is about the bond between an English orphan and a young giraffe. It's inspired by the author's own childhood growing up on a game reserve in Zimbabwe. Plus the final episode of Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende. Producer AbiAwojobi
1/5. A Necklace of Raindrops. A series of stories by Joan Aiken. Read by Miriam Margolyes. Producer Jill waters.
4/7. Jenni Murray and guests on current media trends. Repeated from Friday
Jane Little celebrates the lives of the recently deceased. Repeated from Friday
With John Waite. Repeated from Friday
Repeated from 7.55am
8/9. The Gnome Zone. As many as four-fifths of us live in suburbs. Richard Weight asks how far we understand our core habitat. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
New series 1/3. In every age since Edward Gibbon wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire people have looked to his work for signs of decay in their own times. Matthew Parris explores what lessons
Gibbon's work may have for Britain's politicians and parliamentary institutions in the 21st century. Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Dignan
The Gibbon Test is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm
7/7. Dominic Arkwright confesses to some of the occasions when he has put his foot in it, in the company of fellow penitents Melissa Kite , Dominic Holland and Annie Nightingale. Producer Peter Everett
Repeated from 6.05am
2/3. Sabina Guzzanti. Miles Kington's interviewee from a different culture this week is Italian satirist and impressionist Sabina Guzzanti , who wrote and directed the controversial 2005 film Viva Zapatero ! Repeated from Thursday
