With the Rt Rev Richard Chartres.

1/5. Wildlife film maker Huw Cordey and four friends set off in canoes to Paddle up the River Rewa in Guyana. They survive by their wits and skills, hunting and fishing for piranha, while giant otters play in the river, parrots call overhead and drumming fish keep up an underwater chorus. But then disaster strikes! Producer Sarah Blunt

Exploring rural life around the UK.
Producer Sandra Sykes Repeated on Thursday 28 December at 1.30pm

Seasonal Eating. Miriam O'Reilly rounds up the year with a look at eating with the seasons. Producer Steve Peacock

Presented by John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn. 7-25, 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson. 748 Thought for the Day With Rhidian Brook.

Fi Glover 's festive guests include food writer
Gregg Wallace and a pan of brussel sprouts. There's a dash of Christmas sparkle in this week's inheritance tracks, plus some more extraordinary stories, and poet Murray Lachlan Young beats the yuletide rhythm. Producer Paula McGinley

Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations ana JOys Of travel. Producer Harry Parker

Having been put off Shakespeare by unimaginative schoolteachers, Lenny Henry recently confessed to a late-flowering passion for the Bard and his plays.
Pursuing his new-found enthusiasm, he gets to grips with finding out how the magic comes to life by watching director Peter Hall in rehearsal for Measure for Measure, and tries his own hand at Othello. Producer Simon Elmes

Dennis Sewell and guests debate the major political issues Of the day. Producer Paul Vickers

A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC s foreign correspondents, who report on stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
RT DIRECT: From Our Own Correspondent, edited by Tony Grant is available for E15.99 (RRP E16.99) including p&p. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)

Impartial money advice and the latest news from the World of personal finance, presented by Paul Lewis. Producer Samantha Washington

6/6. Topical sketch show with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , also featuring Mitch Benn , Jon Holmes , Laura Shavin and a special guest. Repeated from yesterday

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Somerset puts topical questions from the week's news to a panel that includes the former Conservative MP and broadcaster Michael PortillO. Repeated from yesterday

Listeners' calls and emails taken by Jonathan Dimbleby in response to Any Questions? Producer Lisa Jenkinson
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 12.30pm; email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

Hannah Gordon and Nicky Henson star in Hattie Naylor 's s vibrant dramatisation of ETA Hoffmann's epic tale that sweeps through magical worlds inhabited by evil mice and the mysterious Dr Drosselmeier and a heroic nutcracker.
Producer Paul Dodqson

At Salisbury Cathedral they are preparing for Christmas: hear the choristers sound off about having to sing the same carols over and over again; find out who has to make sure the Christmas tree lights work; and feel the pain of the person who has to clear up after everyone else has
Stuffed themselves full of mince pies. Repeated from Tuesday

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Editor Jill Burridge
RT DIRECT: To order the hardback book of Woman's Hour: Celebrating Sixty Years of Women's Lives for £14.99 (RRP E20.00) plus free p&p, call [number removed] or send a cheque payable to BBC Shop to [address removed]

News, presented by Nigel Wrench. Editor Peter Rippon

4/9. Presenter Lucy Ash sips and slurps her way around the globe with a programme devoted to alcohol. Hear about the Czech Republic's Lady Beer, specially brewed for menopausal women; tune in to podcasts for wine lovers from the Napa Valley; and join the world's longest pub crawl in the Australian outback. Plus an investigation into alcohol poisoning in Russia. Producer Innes Bowen

Hamish Anderson , John Shuttleworth , Allegra McEvedy and Ray Gelato and his band are Ned Sherrin 's guests in a seasonal special of the show. Producer Simon Clancy

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Deborah Moggach ,
Kwame Kwei-Armah and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the week's cultural highlights. Producer Nicki Paxman

2/2. By day Kay Harker is under the eye of his governess, but at night he escapes into a mysterious world where the forces of good and evil are pitted against each other. Will Kay and the midnight folk be in time to save the treasure from failing into the hands of the malevolent Abner Brown and the Pouncer Seven? By John Masefield. Dramatised by Christopher William Hill.
Other parts played by members of the cast Music by Neil Brand Repeated from Sunday

As the Earth warms up and scientists predict changes to the natural world, Edward Stourton gets together with a panel of experts to discuss how society should respond.
With the help of an audience at London's Royal Society of Arts, the panel aim to come up with some proposals for dealing with climate change. Repeated from Wednesday

16/17. Robert Robinson chairs the fourth semi-final of the general knowledge quiz. Repeated from Monday

1/9. Christmas. Roger McGough offers seasonal poems by UA Fanthorpe, Laurie Lee , Elizabeth Jennings ,
Robert Louis Stevenson , Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah. The readers are Tom Lawrence , Kate Littlewood and Patrick Romer. Repeated from Sunday

1/5. Mrs Hope and Me. A series of stories inspired by the statement attributed to Greta Garbo. Today Eleanor Bron reads Jenny Diski 's story about a writer who, looking for inspiration, escapes to a remote cottage. She revels in the isolation, but others grow concerned when she doesn't appear for three days. Producer Gemma Jenkins

(2/3)
Counting the Cost of Chinese Development