Stereo

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor

Private John Pine fought with the Rifle
Brigade in South Africa in the 1850s and later in the Crimea.
Alan Hankinson selects extracts from his letters home, which reflect the horrors and pleasures of a soldier's life.
With Renny Krupinski as Private Pine.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL

A week of festive tales....
4: Encore by DON HAWORTH.
'They steadied him into his boots, found his sack of presents and helped him up the back stairs to the roof. He climbed a short ladder to the chimney top, swayed a little and disappeared down the flue.' Read by Michael Williams. Producer MARILYN IMRIE

Carol: The blessed Son of God (R. Vaughan Williams); Reading:
Luke 1, vv 39-56; Carol: Rejoice with heart and voice (medieval, arr J Barnard); Long ago, prophets knew (Personent hodie) Director of Music
NOEL TREDINNICK. Stereo

Three programmes reviewing the 80s. 2: Changing Track
In the last ten years
Britain has seen a social and economic revolution: its old industrial base has been swept aside.
Professor Howard Newby ,
Chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council. examines the impact of these changes on community life, focusing on Europe's fastest growing town, Swindon; and asks if living standards have risen at the expense of the quality of life. Producer HOWARD ROGERS

Diddle diddle dumpling, quangle wangle quee, jabberwocky - why are children so fascinated by nonsense? Michael Rosen traces the development of verbal tricks, visual surrealism and sheer silliness with Laura Cecil and Humphrey Carpenter. Producer JILL BURRIDGE

Holding the Baby
Chris Hawksworth tells the story of the first six weeks of baby Danny's life, while his 19- year-old mother Kathleen decides whether or not to have her son adopted. Producer HAZEL CASTELL

with Derek Cooper Producer SHEILA DILLON

Presenter Nick Clarke

Felicity Kendal reads Peter Pan. Stereo

from Bristol.
With Jenni Mills. The Prescription by MARJORIE BOWEN abridged by DELIA PATON. Read by Peter Harlowe. 'It was about five years ago that I was a Christmas guest of a Mrs Janey ... On
Christmas Eve she produced a trump card in the way of amusement - a professional medium....'

Events at Drimaghleen by WILLIAM TREVOR. With and In a melancholy townland of modest farms, set amidst the wind and wet of some of the worst land in the West of Ireland, young
Maureen McDowd cycles off to meet her lover.
And so begins the horror of the tragedy that, on a chilled May morning, awaits the people of Drimaghleen ...
Music specially composed by COLIN SELL. DEIDRE DODS (oboe)
WILFRED GIBSON (violin) LOWRI BLAKE (cello) Directed by DAVID HITCHINSON
(A BBC World Service production)

In 1889, Queen Victoria paid her first - and last - visit to Wales. On arrival she was booed by a small crowd, stands came tumbling down and triumphal arches were blown away ... Ronnie Knox-Mawer relates a tale of unmitigated regal chaos. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Stereo (Details as Thurs 9.30pm)

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale

and Financial Report

Presented by Clive Jacobs
Producer .iu.l THOMAS

with Margaret Howard Producer BEATY RUBENS Stereo

The Rt Hon Tony Benn , MP
The Rt Hon
Michael Heseltine , MP The Rt Hon
Enoch Powell and Fay Weldon. writer tackle the issues raised in Frome, Scotland Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER BBC Bristol

with Nick Clarke.
Producer ANDREW DENWOOD

American intervention in Panama, the initial failure to capture General Manuel Noriega, and the Bush administration's attempt to find legal grounding for an invasion.

Red Tooth and Claw Kaleidoscope explores the work of wildlife artists as they stalk their subjects through the frosty fields and thickets of the British countryside, or range the African bush, armed only with an easel, in pursuit of big game. They discuss their paintings, and we meet a taxidermist turned sculptor.... Stereo

by Alistair Cooke

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

Vintage Thurber 5: The Dog That Bit People. stereo

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace. Written by BARRY ATKINS. PETER BAYNHAM.
MARK BRISENDEN. SIMON BULLIVANT. MIKE COLEMAN. MICHAEL DINES. MAX HANDLKY. ROBERT
LINKORI). BILL MATTHEWS.
GEI) PARSONS. OLEH STEPANIUK. PETER HICKEY and others. Producer HILL dare. Stereo

with Vincent Duggleby