Stereo

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
Including the result of the Today I Woman of the Year poll.

Part 3. Stereo
9.00am News

NeU Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC radio stations in a search for Britain's stuntmen and daredevils.
London to Brighton on a Bed of Nails
From the Great Omani who claims he's Britain's oldest stuntman to a 7-year-old fire-eater from Kent.... Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East (R)

Mrs Thatcher's home town, Grantham, is in the grip of Thatcherism, and developers are transforming the town into a suburb of London. The Grantham Journal has news of an armed motel siege.
Tony Wilkinson reports.
(Stereo)

Dundee, 'City of Discovery', is
Cliff Morgan 's destination as he completes his Tayside journey. He does some stargazing at the Mills Observatory and learns more of the life of poet
William McGonagall. On the way he enjoys the aromas of a herb garden and admires the qualities of the Clydesdale horse. Stereo (R)

A great and mighty wonder (Es ist ein Ros entsprungen) (BBC HB 41); John 1, w 1-14; No small wonder (P. Edwards); Behold the great Creator (This endris nyght) (BBC HB 44)
Director of Music ALAN WILSON. Stereo

Jeremy Nicholas presents an anthology of unusual, unexpected and bizarre recordings. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

Last in the series.
A Party for the Joy of It There is nothing at all unusual about the parties held by Marc - except that all his guests (as well as Marc himself) know that he has AIDS. Marc's parties are an affirmation of present life. Stereo

Five popular shows produced by BBC Radio's Light
Entertainment Dept.
Does the Team Think? With Jimmy Edwards Tommy Trinder
Cyril Fletcher and guest McDonald Hobley. From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(First broadcast March 1963)

with Gordon Clough

Ronald Farr reads Master Salt the Sailor's Son by ALLAN AHLBERG Stereo

Women in Question Jenni Murray invites the studio audience to put their questions to Teresa Gorman , MP Diane Abbott , MP Jane Lapotaire and Detta O'Cathain. With music from
Donna and Kebab.
With women of the 80s in mind, a story by FAY WELDON : IndAffor
Out of Love in Sarajevo Read by Deborah MacLaren. Producer NADINE GRIEVE

JOHN BUCHAN 'S classic 'shocker', dramatised by PETER BUCKMAN. With
Only one man stands between Europe and a terrible war....
With JIMMY CHISHOLM
MICHAEL ELDER
CRAWFORD LOGAN
DAVID MCKAIL
ALEXANDER MORTON
SANDY NEILSON and JOHN SHEDDEN.
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo

Michael Berkeley meets three musicians who faced up to a year of challenges:
Jane Glover , who conducted Britten's War Requiem the day the Berlin Wall cracked;
John Tomlinson , who sang in Wagner's Ring Cycle in both Bayreuth and London; and the composer
Mark-Anthony Turnage , whose new piece Three Screaming Popes was premiered under the baton of Simon Rattle. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN. Stereo

Presented by Robert Williams

3: Frost
Long, long ago, Martha's cruel stepmother sent her deep into the wintry forest to wait for her strange and menacing bridegroom.

and Financial Report

5: 2084 with Liz Goulding as the Barmaid. Stereo (R)

The Little Blighty Traditional Christmas Pageant is an opportunity to unfold the rich and exciting tapestry of village history to an eager audience.
(Stereo)

Peter Evans seeks some answers from Professor Noel Dilly Dr Steve Jones and Professor John Taylor.

A Tale of Two Cities 7: The Knitting Done Stereo (R)

with Margaret Howard Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Stereo

A review of the events of 1989, including the revolutions in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania, the invasion of Panama, and Soviet-Chinese summits.

by Alistair Cooke
Stereo

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

3: Anne Packer won a gold medal at the Toyko Olympics, but is it for her medal or for her romance with athlete
Robbie Brightwell that we remember her? (R)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an American Slave (5). Stereo

(Details as Christmas Day at 6.05pm)

with Vincent Duggleby

Writer Stan Barstow sends an archive postcard from Blackpool.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON (R)