Stereo

with Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
9.00am News

Jacques Darras explores how Medieval Irish monks hold the key to a United Europe in his fifth and final Reith lecture. Show more

with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo

(Details as Sunday 2.00pm)

A week of festive tales.... 3: Holly by TOM WAKEFIELD.
'Afterwards, we sang The Holly and the Ivy as if nothing had happened - but of course it had. We could still see the tiny spottles of blood on Miss Roper's hand.'
Read by Stephanie Cole. Producer MARILYN IMRIE

Carol: Gabriel's message (Basque carol, arr
E. Pettman ); Reading: Luke 1, vv 26-35
Carol: There is no rose (G. Hendrie )
Angelus ad virginem
(medieval, arr B. Rose). Director of Music
BARRY ROSE. Stereo

Transylvania - Dancing in the Dark
Transylvania: a rich culture unique in Europe. But Ceausescu's 'Systemisation' plan means it may be lost for ever. Recorded secretly in Romania, the programme reports on the gloomy state of village culture. Written, presented and produced by Simon Broughton.
Stereo

Andrew Mitchell 's journey across the Pacific ends on Easter
Island, where the silent statues tell a story of exploitation which is still relevant today. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presented by John Waite

The panel game in which Michael Scott takes a quizzical look at the elements of science.
Producer LOUISE DALZIEL BBC Scotland Stereo (R)

Presented by James Naughtie

Felicity Kendal reads Peter Pan. Stereo

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial:
Mr Campion and Others 3: Safe as Houses

by NOEL COWARD . The third of three
Coward short stories adapted by JOHN GRAHAM. With and The story of a young playwright's encounter with the big star who could make or break him in the theatre.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING (R)

Veteran poet
George Barker reads poems in celebration of Eliot and Yeats, at the Janneau
Festival, King's Lynn. Introduced by George Macbeth : Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol

(Details as Tuesday 7.20pm)

Sweet Chiming Bells Paul Allen visits the Black Bull pub at Ecclesfield near
Sheffield, where a group of singers meet to perform Christmas songs and carols stemming from the English folksong heritage, and where familiar words turn up wearing new tunes and harmonics.
Producer NOAH RICHLER. Stereo

Presented by Hugh Sykes and Frances Coverdale

and Financial Report

Host Iain Johnstone, with Dick Vosburgh, Bernard Cribbins, Victoria Mather and Robin Ray.
(Stereo) (R)

Stereo (Details Tues 4.05pm)

David Ashford investigates the life and legends of the famous highwayman.
With Nigel Anthony as Turpin and the voices of JOHN GABRIEL, DAVID
GOUDGE, JOHN MOFFAT and JANE SLAVIN. Ballad singer PETER BOND

Beyond the Tunnel of History by Jacques Darras. 5: Toward the Light
'J see Europe poised on the brink of a spiritual and intellectual development that will gather together the scattered embers of its past.'
In 1802,
William Wordsworth stood on the beach at Calais and met for the first time his French daughter Caroline. Father and child provided a poignant symbol of the ambivalence between
France and England. But Jacques Darras finds a clue to our shared European future in a much earlier cross-
Channel cultural interaction: the 'School of Light' established by Irish monks in the medieval city of Laon. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

This has been the year of Hamlet in the theatre and Brighton's Zap club rounds it off with Hamlet, the Panto; David Self picks the best of this Christmas's television and radio, with a nostalgic reminder of BBC offerings 50 years ago; and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is staged in a 5,000-seat tent.
With Nigel Andrews. Producer HILARY NORRISH Stereo (Revised repeat on Thursday at 4.35pm)

with Alexander MacLeod Stereo

Vintage Thurber
3: Guessing Game and The Night the Bed Fell

Aspects of a decade recalled in nine parts by Harry Thompson. 9: Under the Counter Something Stirs
A view of the days when it was chastity, Horlicks and the Light
Programme - not sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. And nice girls didn't.... often....
Researchers
STEPHANIE CROWTHER and LUCY BARTLEY
Producer AMANDA MARES Editor ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester