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2/2. Geoff Mulgan , former Number Ten adviser and now director of the Young Institute, reflects on our sense of political belonging.

Hope against Hope. Geoffrey Smith explores one of the cardinal virtues that can be hard to maintain: hope. Producer Eley McAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

4/9. A weekly look at the lives of people who make their living in the country. Producer Steve Peacock

Religious and ethical news, presented by Roger Bolton.
Producer Amanda Hancox

Richard Briers makes a request for donations on behalf of the Orchid Cancer Appeal.
Donations: [address removed]marked Orchid on the back of the envelope; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm, and on Thursday at 3.27pm

A service for All Saints' Day from St Asaph Cathedral, north
Wales, led by the Dean, the Very Rev Christopher Potter.
The preacher is the Rt Rev John S Davies Bishop of St
Asaph Organist and master of choristers Alan McGuinness. Assistant organist John Hosking. Producer Roy Jenkins

Repeated from Friday

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

Omnibus edition.

6/8 The quiz based on quotations, hosted by Nigel Rees. The reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Reports on the best and worst of Britain s food industry. Producer Dilly Barlow Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Global news, with Shaun Ley. Editor Peter Rippon

2/2. Sarfraz Manzoor follows British Pakistani fans as they travel across the country to watch Pakistan's cricket tour of England this summer. He finds out why the majority of second- and third-generation British Pakistanis still support Pakistan. He also uncovers he huge diversity of British Pakistani life and investigates the link be ween cricket and the radicalisation of young British Muslims. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Chris Beardshaw Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer questions from gardeners at Reynoldston
Women's Institute on the Gower Peninsula. The chairman is Eric Robson And at the GOT garden, Pippa Greenwood explores late-planting salads, Anne Swithinbank gives an update on the new South African border planting, and Bob Flowerdew looks at methods of growing garlic. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
RT DIRECT- Gardeners' Question Time: The Four Seasons is available for E13 44 (rrp £1599) on two CDs or £8.99 (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
Alan Titchmarsh 's tips: page 32
FREE gardening books offer: page 120

4/4. Nevern and the Showgirl. David McKie makes a pilgrimage to a village pub in Pembrokeshire to unearth the story of the late landlady, the extraordinary
Pamela Cushla le Poer Davidson. Her colourful adventures included performing as a nude trapeze artist in Soho and fleeing the unwelcome ardour of Joseph Goebbels in Germany. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

3/3. The Second World War is in progress and having a devastating effect on the family business - and one of the grandchildren is sucked into radical Islam. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz , the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer who died in August. Starring Omar Sharif. Recorded in Egypt.
Other cast members: Nairy Avedissian , Radwa Elgabry , Salah Fahmy , Yara Goubran , Caroline Khalil , Rena Malak , Zeinab Moubarak , Tamer Nasrat . Dina Nadim , Sherif Nour. Ola Roshdy , Sedky Sakhar , Hany Seef , Saymsa Shalan , Hugh Sowden , Mika Thabet , Yeve Youssef , Ekram Zalat. Music by Sacha Puttnam Producer /Director John Dryden RptdonSatat9pm

Mariella Frostrup explores the conundrum of the "locked-room" mystery - a sub-genre of detective fiction that features the impossible crime.
Producer Anne-Marie Cole Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

5/7. Lullabies. Roger McGough presents a selection of soothing, scary and musical poems in the form of lullabies, read by Patrick Romer , Josette Simon and Rupert Wickham. Producer Mary Ward-Lowery Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

4/10. The green image and the share price of oil giant BP have both taken a hammering after serious mishaps in America. In the oilfields of Alaska and Texas,
Julian O'Halloran investigates charges that BP courted disaster by cutting corners on safety and maintenance. RptdfromTue

Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Clare Balding offers her selection of highlights from the past seven days' radio programmes. Producer Jacqueline Smith PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: potwUbbc.co.uk

Bert shows he's top of his field.
For cast see page 36 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm Soap & Flannel: page 35

Alexander McCall Smith gives Barney Harwood tips on what to do when you come face to face with a snake in the wild. Producer VibekeVenema

5/5. Bright Green Trainers. An academic research trip to Denmark yields a surprising result in Adam Thorpe 's story, read by Richard E Grant. Producer Martin jarvis

6/11. Roger Bolton digs in the mailbag for BBC Radio listeners' comments, queries, criticisms and praise. Repeated from Friday

With Matthew Bannister. Repeated from Friday

BOX Repeated from yesterday at 12.04pm

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8/9. On the Hedge. The rise of a new wave of investors is changing the way high finance works. Companies find their destinies being shaped by secretive and powerful hedge funds that are a mystery to them. Peter Day investigates whether big business is getting ever riskier, and whether it matters. Repeated from Thursday

Probing analysis of the week's political events.
10.45 Class Conscious 1/2. Class doesn't seem to be the burning issue that it once was in British politics.
John Cole discusses the declining interest in class with Peter Mandelson and Michael Heseltine.
Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Dignan
Class Conscious is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

7/9. Libby Purves 's guide to learning. Repeated from Monday

Repeated from 6.05am

Artists and writers reflect on the self-portraits of Rembrandt, born 400 years ago. Philosopher Nigel Warburton explores why the Dutch master, throughout his career, was so fascinated with self-portraiture. Repeated from Thursday

David Kaczynski describes how his
Buddhist faith helped him when he found out that his brother was one of America's worst serial killers

a Revolutionary State (3/3) John Tusa on the making of modern Iran