goes to Sussex.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45* In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING
with Cliff Morgan
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
with Bernard Falk and Nigel Coombs.
Producer HELEN ROBSON
Ned Sherrin , with regulars Robert Elms, Emma Freud ,
Carol Thatcher , Craig Charles , Richard Jobson and Victoria Mather , includes a rather different Christmas story in this week's edition.
Starring Special Guests!
This unique live radio event offers tongue-in-cheek advice on how to survive Christmas, from the office party through to that nasty aftershave your auntie always gives you. The characters are given a number of possible choices at each stage of the story, and their response decides where the story goes next. Confused? You will be! (Radio's first Scratch 'n'Sniff production)
with Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor of The Independent. Producer DENNIS SEWELL
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
Presented by Louise Botting. Producer FRANCES MACDONALD
The last of the show that's always last with the news, featuring Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren and chairman Barry Took. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer BILL DARE. Stereo
Ludovic Kennedy Jim Sillars , mp
The Rt Hon Barbara Castle , MEP and Andrew Neil
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby
The life of Charles Dickens in seven parts
6: Another Sort of Life
Other parts played by ZELAH CLARK , ALAN DUDLEY , RICHARD PEARCE , RICHARD TATE , STEPHEN TOMPKINSON , VICTORIA CARLING
GWEN CHERRELL and EVA STUART Compiled and researched by MELISSA BAKEWELL
Directed by ROSEMARY HART Stereo (R)
Introduced by Penelope Lively. Poetry for children is enormously popular - both in books and in performance. Jill Burridge visits schools around the country with James Berry , Anne Harvey and John Mole.
(Revised repeat of yesterday 's broadcast)
A play by JONATHAN SMITH
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
A Secret Language
In the last of three programmes Nick Baker investigates the new education laws.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE (R)
Sue MacGregor goes to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to talk with tenor John Dobson.
with Sally Grace , David Tate Bill Wallis and Royce Mills.
with BRYAN MARTIN including Sports Round-Up
Omnibus edition by MARCIA KAHAN
Directed by DAVID HITCHINSON
Series editor MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo
with Robert Robinson
Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
The Dwelling Place by CATHERINE COOKSON dramatised by MICHELENE WANDOR.
Tyne Valley, 1800s: When young Cissie Brodie 's parents die, she is left with a family of nine to bring up alone. With the help of local tradesman
Matthew Turnbull , she manages to make a meagre living for the family until a chance meeting with the daughter and son of the local squire sets off a chain of tragedies ...
Directed by DAVE SHEASBY BBC North East. Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
Led by John Oates. Stereo
The Catherine Cookson Phenomenon
'To the world I'm Mrs Cookson , but inside I'm Katie McMullen from 10 William Black Street , East Jarrow.'
With 85 million books sold in 16 languages, Catherine Cookson is a world best-seller.
Gillian Reynolds profiles her life and her work. Producer JUUA SHAW BBC North East
A light-hearted anthology from writers largely new to radio. Readers EMMA GARNER CLARKE ,
BARBARA MARTEN. ANN RYE and PETER WHEELER.
Song written and performed by MERVYN STUTTER.
Producer IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester. Stereo
Stereo
(Details on Wednesday at 7.45pm)
by James Hendie and Ian Brown
With just six shopping days left till Christmas, dare you waste time sitting around listening to the radio?
Starring Robert Bathurst, Mike Grady, Jonathan Kydd and special guest.
(Stereo)
