A selection of music BBC Pebble Mill Stereo
Producers TIM FINNEY , REBECCA POW
with Bernard Jackson
7.10 Today's Papers
The second special programme on zoonosology, with enzootic abortion among the subjects being discussed. Pregnant women risk losing their babies if they're in contact with diseased sheep at lambing time. Producer TIM FINNEY
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)
with the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Cliff Morgan
England's cricketers are doing their last-minute Christmas shopping in Hobart, where they are playing Tasmania. Back home. Cliff has a few thoughts about the past 12 months, and looks forward to 1987.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Presented by Bernard Falk with Susan Marling Nigel Coombs and Patrick Stoddart Producer HELEN ROBSON
Presented by David Lister Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM
In this special Christmas edition, the presenters recall their favounte moments of drama and humour in the parliamentary year.
Robert Carvell of the London Standard is in the Chair. Producer SHEILA COOK
unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher and Stephen Fry.
Plus Nigel Farrell , who continues his Great Bus
Journeys of Our Time, and the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward Additional material by IAN BROWN and JAMES HENDRIE Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 10.0am)
'Don't half-quote me to reinforce your own prejudices.' The quotation and half-quotation game presented by Nigel Rees with The Rt Hon David Steel. mp Liberal Leader,
Gemma O'Connor , collector of quotes, Sheridan Morley , theatre critic and broadcaster, and John Peel , DJ and wit Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Monday at 6.30pm)
The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind , mp The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp The Rt Hon Shirley Williams General Eva Burrows
Henry and the Dogs
A bitter-sweet comedy by DAVID CAUTE with Henry is a professional complainer against dogs, against bureaucracy, against the man who ran off with his wife. How can he be redeemed? Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo
'My first love for song and poetry came from my father's passionate devotion to Robert Burns. I can still recite "Holy Willie's Prayer" - which is a good form of self examination for an Archbishop.'
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie , in company with Michael Hordern and Judi Dench , presents a selection of his favourite poetry and prose, before an audience at the BBC's Concert Hall in London. Producer ALEC REID. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Eve at 11.0am)
(The Archbishop of Canterbury is
John Dunn guest on Christmas Eve at 5.5pm on Radio 2)
The last programme in the series presented by Christopher Dunkley
A profile of the National Children's Orchestra
The NCO was set up eight years ago and now has several hundred members aged 7 to 14 who fit NCO tours into their school holidays. Antony Hopkins meets the children who demand to be seen and heard. Producer ANNE HINDS
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Day at 10.35 pm)
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace Stereo
With PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up
Music by DILLIE KEANE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
The Latin Lover by CHRISTOPHER DENYS
People called Rachel Thorpe an angel. Young, beautiful and innocent, when she wasn't looking after her gruff giant of a husband Henry, she was doing some good work for her local community in wartime Oldham. And then the first Italian prisoners of war arrived....
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0pm)
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JUDITH ROLES Stereo
In 1856 Catharine Tait and her husband Archibald, then Dean of Carlisle, lost five of their children within six weeks. It was a family tragedy mourned by the whole nation.
Catharine wrote an account of that time of trial to comfort others who might have to bear a similar burden.
Malcolm Jones draws on her book to tell the story.
With Jill Balcon as Catharine and Donald Douglas as Archibald Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 10.0am)
The Night is Far Spent
Wake, 0 wake, for night is flying (BBC HB 40); Nunc
Dimittis (Howells); Romans 13, w 18-14; Hark a herald voice is calling (EH 5). Stereo
The last in the current series of documentaries in which a team of specialist reporters 'sound out' the religious and moral implications of major current issues and provide in-depth analysis of the religious scene at home and abroad.
Researched and produced by AMANDA HANCOX
Series editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH
At last! The year 1986 is inspected, dissected and pulled into pieces by a team of hand-picked experts on nothing in particular.
In the first of two programmes, Richard Ingrams and David Taylor are joined by John Wells and Bill Tidy to mull over 12 months that shook the world. In control of events (just) Barry Took
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON with the producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 12.27pm) (Part 2 next Saturday at 1.0pm)
It's Christmas at Balmoral. The turkey's in the oven, the presents are wrapped and Victoria's writing her speech. Everything looks set for another happy Christmas, but will the arrival of Prince Albert's relations upset the Yuletide joy? with Hugh Paddick
Brenda Blethyn, Chris Emmett, Caroline Gruber, Leonard Sachs and special guests.
(Stereo)
followed by an interlude
