Producers DYLAN WINTER and SUE BROOM

Stereo

Sue MacGregor meets the prize-winning novelist Ruth Rendell. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor

Written and abridged in eight episodes by DAVID HENRY WILSON.
Read by Dyfed Thomas. 1: What does a poor rat know of political power?
In this cross between
Cinderella and Animal Farm, he learns fast.
Producer DAVID BENEDICTUS

John Waite reports on the twilight world of the modern poacher. Producer GRAHAM ELLIS Editor CHRIS LONGLEY

with Tony Wilkinson. The shipyards die and South Tyneside becomes a land fit for tourists; the Gazette campaigns against the latest scheme, a 'superdome' in a pretty local park.
Old songs and traditions survive, but local radio has leamt how to 'talk posh'. Stereo

Cliff Morgan continues his journey through the Central Highlands: including today, a vain search for an osprey by the Loch of Lowes. Stereo (R)

Carol: I wonder as I wander (Appalachian, arr J. Rutter ); Reading: 1 John 4, vv 7-16; Carol: Love came down at Christmas (A. Wilson); Joy to the world; The
Lord is come (Antioch). Director of Music ALAN WILSON. Stereo

Jeremy Nicholas concludes the celebration of the children's record request programmes with a look at the 60s and 70s. Including the end of Children's
Favourites on the old Light Programme and the start of Junior Choice on the newly created Radio 1.
(Stereo) (R)

3: A Gourmet Meal Strictly for Singles As the divorce rate increases, so does the number of singles clubs. Not all members, however, are desperate lonely hearts ... Stereo

starring Ted Ray with Kitty Bluett, Peter Sellers, Charles Hawtrey, Patricia Hayes and Kenneth Connor.

(First broadcast in 1954)

with Gordon Clough Editor ROGER MOSEY

Alvin Stardust reads Little Old Mrs Pepperpot by ALF PROYSEN. Stereo (R)

Shivering Peaks by SUE LIMB takes Monica Dickens , Sarah Greene , Jeremy Hardy and Terry Jones over the moors in a nightmare quest for love and sanity.
Producer MARY SHARP
Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY < See panel opposite

by Daphne du Maurier, dramatised by Brian Miller.
With Christopher Cazenove as Maxim, Janet Maw as Mrs de Winter, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs Danvers, Nickolas Grace as Favell and Frederick Treves as Colonel Julyan.

Arriving at Manderley, the young Mrs de Winter finds the beautiful house and its occupants haunted by memories of Rebecca, her new husband's first wife.
(Stereo)

Mark Steyn meets three contributors to musicals who this year faced the deadlines and demands of their chosen theatrical convention. Nicholas Hytner directed his first musical, the smash hit Miss Saigon;
Charles Hart was co-lyricist on Aspects of Love; and Julia McKenzie starred in Sondheim's Follies. Producer TIM DEE Stereo

Presented by Robert Williams Editor KEVEN MARSH

by ARTHUR RANSOME. Read by Bob Peck. 1: Sadko
Long, long ago Sadko sat by the banks of the little River Volkhov and played his dulcimer to the tsar of the sea. Producer ALISON HINDELL

and Financial Report

3: Young Chocolate with and

Festive debauchery bites the dust as Richard Stilgoe 's roadshow books into Champney's Health Farm, with Charles Collingwood Belinda Lang Peter Blake
Francesca Brill and saxophonist John Harle. Written by RICHARD STILGOE
Producer NEIL CARGILL. Stereo

A Tale of Two Cities 5: The Storm Gathers Stereo (R)

Dorothy Tutin is
Robin Ray 's guest. Stereo (R)

The Sounds of Lost Mexico Mexican musician
Antonio Zepeda talks with Natalie Wheen. Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo (R)

with Alexander MacLeod Editor MARGARET BUDY Stereo

Three daily programmes in which Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for 15 minutes.
1: In 1962 Janice Nicholls shot to fame saying 'Oi'll give it foive' on ABC's Thank Your Lucky Stars.
BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an American Slave (3). Stereo

Vladimir Ashkenazy talks to June Knox-Mawer about his life in both Russia and the West. He also introduces some of his own recordings.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER Stereo (R)