BBC Wales. Stereo

with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor

Producer NICK UTECHIN
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Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer PETER CROASDALE

Just Another Evening by MARY SARA. Read by Barbara Marten.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Introit: Let there be light; 0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel
(Veni Emmanuel , arr. A. Wilson )
Reading: Isaiah 52, w 7-15 Carol: Alleluya, a new work is come on hand (P. Wishart ); Hark the glad sound! The Saviour comes (Bristol) (AMNS 30)
Director of Music
ALAN WILSON. Stereo

Producer DAVID STEVENSON

The last of six programmes.
Introducing Uncle Sam Writer Alun Richards finds the real Japan and the nicest Americans, in Japanese bars.
Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales

Presenter John Waite

with Nigel Rees and guests Ian McKellen ,
Celia Haddon , Eleanor Bron and Benny Green. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER. Producer LISSA EVANS Stereo (R)

with James Naughtie

Michael Rosen reads The Fantastic Feats of Doctor Boox. Stereo

by Stephen Mollett.
A villa in Rome for a semi in Streatham, but the mysteries of Rome are not as intriguing as the secrets of the owners.
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R4
Television - in the form of Dr Who's companion Leela, Tenko's Blanche and Bergerac's girlfriend Susan - has kept Louise Jameson away from radio for nearly ten years. But this week she's back as a tormented wife in Stephen Mollett's Curious Exchange.
'I knew the director Sue Wilson from the Bristol Old Vic and we blocked it (arranged the moves) just as if it was on stage.' says Louise. 'As there are only two people in it (her co-star is David Yelland) it was a round-the-microphone luxury we could afford.'
Louise and David play a couple who find that a holiday in Rome (swapping their Streatham semi for an Italian villa) is the catalyst that throws their relationship - and the problems of the past - into sharp focus. David feels the play 'doesn't fall easily into any category', while Louise believes that many people will be able to relate in a positive way to the couple's problems.
She's currently playing another problem lady - Molly in Sleeping Nightie at London's Royal Court Theatre - but coming back to radio was no problem at all:
'Cicely Berry, the voice coach at the RSC, always taught me that "least is best" and that's certainly true on radio. If you overdo it, you sound false.'
And now Louise plans more time for radio because, in the new year, she says goodbye to her long-running role in Bergerac.
'It was the most wonderful job - all those summers in Jersey - but it's time to go,' she says, adding mysteriously: 'I'll be written out in a very dramatic way in the first episode of the new series.'
(David Gillard)
Curious Exchange, 3.00pm Radio 4

Singers are not always musical sophisticates, but working in a professional choir demands skills of the highest order, as choral conductors John Poole and Barry Rose explain.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON Stereo

A round-robin series of six biographers in conversation.
5: Andrew Motion talks about his work on the Lambert family and Philip Larkin to fellow poet and biographer John Stallworthy. Producer ED THOMASON
Stereo

Stereo (Details Man 9.15pm)

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes

and Financial Report

Eight programmes by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE. Starring and With and 7: Love and Hisses
Producer SIONED WILIAM
Stereo

Reporter Helen Boaden Producer LIZ CARNEY
Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester

The last of four programmes in which Dylan Winter meets people who offer their services and yet retain the upper hand over their customers.
The Cleaning Lady Why do people feel compelled to scrub their homes from top to bottom before the cleaning woman arrives? And what do these formidable women think of their employers and their homes?
Dylan steps into a world of guilt and polish. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill

for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
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Christopher Cook reviews the new films; and discovers the methods of the old masters.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY. Stereo

Presenter
Alexander MacLeod Stereo

The Initials in the Heart (7) Stereo

Stereo (Details Sun 3.30pm)