Tim Finney talks to two English farmers who have just come back from taking a first-hand look at Soviet agriculture.
With THE VERY REV
DR STEPHEN S. SMALLEY. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's s News Read by SIMON VANCE 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
by FRANK TUOHY
Read by Patrick Malahide
3: At Home with the Colonel (R)
Today Sue MacGregor meets All MacGraw.
Choice cuts with Derek Cooper (R)
A series for Christmas week, reviewing the main themes and events of the year.
4:A Year of War and PeaceHopes of peace have been continuously raised in a series of conflicts - the Gulf, Cambodia, Angola, Central America.
Alexander Macleod charts the trend of the year and asks: is the political will of the superpowers sufficient to cool down the regional conflicts?
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER
The fourth of five recollections by DENIS CONSTANDUROS. Stereo (R)
reflecting the concerns of the day. Stereo
by CHRISTOPHER REASON Stereo
(Omnibus edition on New Year's Eve)
Winner of the Premios Ondas 1988, this is Kaleidoscope's tribute to the players who are faced with the agonies and ecstasies of playing Ravel's Boléro.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Stereo (R)
Debbie Thrower visits five very different shops.
4: Moreton's Hardware
For 35 years, Harry and Betty Moreton have run their shop in Wolverhampton. Now they're ready to retire, but none of their children wants to take over the business - and Harry and Betty can't bear to let it go. Producer JOHN WATKINS
6: Smiley's investigations are almost complete, but there are still one or two loose ends to tie up ... Stereo (R)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Today's story: Dark Is Wonderful. Stereo (R)
Endless summer days, enchanted Christmasses, holidays, laughter and innocence. Why is childhood always portrayed as an idyllic, special time? Jenni Murray and guests discuss their own memories, and look at the truth behind the magic. And for anyone who thought dreams could come true:
Some Day My Prince Will Come by DEBORAH MOGGACH. abridged by MEG CLARKE. Read by Caroline John Producer ANNE REEVELL
5: A Right Honourable Rape Stereo (R)
Just When You Thought You Were Safe in the Stalls ...
When actors say, 'It's a good house tonight', what do they mean? Paul Allen investigates the mysterious chemistry of the actor-audience relationship, discovers there can be far more to audience participation than cries of 'Oh, no, it isn't', and meets a cabaret act who claim 'the audience isn't on a pedestal. We treat them like anyone on the street, sometimes worse - a lot worse....'
Producer JOHN GOUDIE
with Ferdi Dennis.
4: The Domino Players
Dominoes, popular in the Caribbean, has become one of the main, male pastimes in Black community centres in Britain. (R)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Rory MacLean
5.00 News Summary
5.20 PM Letters
5.28 City News
5.29 Closing News Headlines
by Jennifer Johnston.
Read by Anna Massey.
The stranger at the house is hostile when the future owner leaves Ireland. Returning from exile in old age, the owner is compelled to rediscover her early days, and to contact the stranger for the last time.
with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
(First Broadcast in 1967)
Gordon Clough talks to Martin Luther King daughter
Bernice King , currently reading law and theology at university, about her father's dream and philosophy. (R)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
In the last of four programmes Alexander Cordell joins
Christopher Somerville on a walk around Blaenavon and the surrounding area, visiting scenes from his historical novel Rape of the Fair Country. Reader Philip Madoc. (R)
Michael Hordern narrates the fourth of five
Stories with Music. Story adapted by IAN SERRAILLIER.
Set to music by PAUL READE Stereo (R)
Writers by Writers
Tracking down the life of a famous author involves detective work, dedication, and an unashamed curiosity to find out the details that the person in question would often not want hung out in public.
Humphrey Carpenter talks to the writers who write about writers.
Producer LIS EDWARDS (R)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (9)
Presented by Larry Harris
George 'Dadie' Rylands has lived in the same set of rooms in King's College, Cambridge, for more than 60 years.
A Shakespeare scholar, he founded the Cambridge Arts
Theatre, compiled the 'ages of man' anthology, and has been a lasting influence on generations of actors and directors.
He talks with Chris Kelly about the many friends and colleagues he has known during his 87 years: Thomas Hardy, George Orwell, T.S. Eliot, the Woolfs, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, Lytton
Strachey, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Cecil Beaton and many others.
Producer HARRY THOMPSON (R)
