From St Olave Hart Street. in the City of London.

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Ocean Deep. Rabbi Julia Neuberger explores the spiritual and practical elements of the ever-changing sea. Producer Ronni Davis Repeated at 11.30pm

2/9. Adam Henson reports from an Essex farm where school dinner ladies get first-hand experience of the raw ingredients used in healthy menus. producer Sarah swadiing

Religious and ethical news, presented by Edward Stourton. Producer Amanda Hancox

Diana Rigg appeals on behalf of International Care and Relief. Donations: [address removed], marked ICR on the back of the envelope; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman
Repeated at 9.26pm, and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Giving Voice to the Word. The Rev Barbara Steele-Perkins , the Rev Richard Littledale and the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths of the College of Preachers express the variety of contemporary preaching drawing on words from Isaiah:
"My word shall not return to me empty". From Wesley's s
Chapel in London. Leader Judy Jarvis. With the Adoramus
Choir directed by David Hooke. Organist Oliver Nicholson.
Producer Philip Billson

Repeated from Friday

Paddy O'Connell discusses the week's news. Editor Peter Rippon

Omnibus edition.

4/8. The quiz based on quotations, hosted by Nigel Rees. The reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Exploring the food issues of the day.
Editor Sharon Banoff Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Global news, with Brian Hanrahan. Editor coim Hancock

For more than 50 years, Charles Wheeler , one of the world's most respected journalists, has carried a tiny portrait on his travels across continents. But who is the woman depicted in the portrait? Where did she come from and did she have a guilty past? She has remained an unprompted gift and a mystery until now. His search for her rightful home is a tale of power, politics and theft. Producer Mark Burman

I Chris Beardshaw , John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew answer gardening questions at the Barnes, Mortlake and East Sheen Horticultural and Allotment Society in west London. Matthew Biggs stresses the importance ot cleaning water storage systems before the winter rains,
Chris Beardshaw sets up a trial to see which berry-producing plants birds prefer, and Bob Flowerdew looks at the most common poisonous plants in the garden. Anna Ford is in the chair. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
Alan Titchmarsh solves your gardening problems: p34 RT DIRECT: Gardeners' Question Time: The Four Seasons is available for E13.44 (RRP £15.99) on two CDs or E8.99 (RRP £10.99) on two audio cassettes. Prices include p&p. To order, send a cheque payable to BBC Shop to: [address removed] visit www.bbcshop.com. or call [number removed]. quoting [number removed] Anne Swithinbank answers gardeners' questions in the November issue of Good Homes Magazine

2/4. Irthlingborough and Charles Weston. In the early 20th century the American movie director Charles Weston based his studios in Irthlingborough in Northamptonshire. David McKie arrives there in time for a regular public screening of Weston's 1913 film The Battle of Waterloo. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

1/3. Omar Sharif stars in this family saga chronicling the life of a middle-class (though downwardly mobile) family in early 20th-century Egypt, a country that was struggling to adjust to the modern world. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz , the Nobel prize-winning Egyptian writer who died in August. This episode begins at the end of the First World War and culminates in a popular uprising in March 1919, when the eldest son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause. Recorded in Egypt.
Other cast members: Shirine El Ansari , Nairy Avedissian , Radwa Elgabry , Salah Fahmy , Yara Goubran , Maryam El Khoshed , Rena Malak , Zeinab Moubarak , Dina Nadim , Ahmed Nour , Sherif Nour , Sedky Sakhar , Saymaa Shalan , Hany Seef , Hugh Sowden , Mika Thabet , Yeve Youssef and Ekram Zalat
Music by Sacha Puttnam Producer/Director John Dryden RptdonSatat9pm Jane Anderson talks to Omar Sharif : page 121

Actress Julie Walters talks to Mariella Frostrup about her first novel Maggie's Tree, about three friends on an eventful trip to New York. Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

3/7. Roger McGough presents listeners' requests from the Birmingham Book Festival, read by Phyllida Nash ,
Michael Fenton Stevens and guest poets Julie Boden and Martin Glynn. Producer VivBeeby Repeated on Saturday at 11 30pm

2/10. With casualties mounting in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Allan Urry asks why British troops can't get the equipment they need to keep them safe. Repeated from Tuesday

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Mark Coles presents his selection of excerpts from
BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Jacqueline Smith PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: potw@ibbc.co.uk

Can David and Ruth resist temptation?
For cast see page 38 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 37

Barney Harwood is joined by children's laureate Jacqueline Wilson , who talks about the latest Tracy Beaker story and answers listeners' questions. Producer Justine wiiiett

3/5. Dream Lovers. Mark and Kate believe that two people could experience the same dream. But where might that leave their respective partners? Michael Simkins reads Sean Carson 's short story. Producer Martin Jarvis

4/11. Roger Bolton with listeners'comments. Rptd from Friday

With Matthew Bannister. Repeated from Friday

Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

Repeated from 7.55am

6/9. Big Ideas. Nathan Myhrvold used to be the brainiac at the software giant Microsoft. Now he has set up a company to exploit ideas and patents. He explains to Peter Day what he's doing. Repeated from Thursday

Probing analysis of the week's political events.
10.45 Come and Join Us 1/2. Geoff Mulgan , former Number Ten adviser and now director of the Young Institute, reflects on what drives political allegiance. Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Diqnan
Come and Join Us is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm. and on Sunday 22 October at 5.45am

5/9. Libby Purves 's guide to learning. Repeated from Monday

Repeated from 6.05am

4/5. Sue Townsend entertains an audience with extracts from some of her favourite books, including the work of Iris Murdoch , George Orwell and Fyodor Dostoyevsky , and John Lahr 's biography of Joe Orton. Repeated from Thursday

a Revolutionary State (1/3) John Tusa looks at the making of modern Iran