with Fr Kevin O'Neill
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

A. N. Wilson talks with Rosemary Hartill.
Producer DAVID COOMES (R)

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys

Voices for Our Times Four places that made the headlines over the past ten years: what will their people now look forward to and reflect on? Cueballs leisure centre cultivates the Glaswegian body beautiful; Derry City FC scores for consensus; fall-out-affected farmers from Pentrefoelas count becquerels; and the car workers of Wearside make it with the Japanese.
Producers FRANCES BURNS FIONA COUPER. SIMON ELMES and CAROLINE SARLL. Stereo

Four views of the last decade....
1: A Real Countrywoman by DEBORAH MOGGACH. Read by Elizabeth Mansfield. Producer MARIA VIGAR (R)

from the Salvation Army Citadel, Blackpool led by Canon Noel Vincent
With the Blackpool Citadel Songsters led by Roy Powers.
All creatures of our God and King; Luke 2, vv 15-24; Keep on believing; Made in the likeness of God.
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)

(Details as New Year's Eve at 5.00pm)

with Sunon Rae.
Readers ELEANOR BRON and STEPHEN THORNE. Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol Stereo

Malcolm Stacey and Margaret Collins present a light-hearted look at the influence social class still plays in our lives. Producer DAVID BERRY Editor KEN VASS

John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race. Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo

with James Naughtie

The winning stories from the 1989 Listening Corner story competition, read by Tony Robinson. Today's story: Beatrice, the Penguin Who Couldn't Get Her Feet Wet by DIANA WEBB. Producer DAVID IAN NEVILLE

In a special programme to launch the new decade, Jenni Murray meets people who are facing fresh starts or new challenges in the 1990s. On the same subject, today's story is The Swain by MARY LELAND read by Kate Binchy. Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY

by KRISTA HANRATTY. With Angela Thorne as Helen and Martin Jarvis as Ben.
Helen revisits her honeymoon hotel. There she meets Ben ...
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS (R)

Stradivari's Secret Modern musical instrument makers still cannot equal the tone that Stradivari produced for his violins 250 years ago. John Amis talks to violinists Salvatore Accardo and Nigel Kennedy , cellist Robert Cohen and scientist Dr Colin Gough , and samples some 17 Strads. Producer PHILIP JORDAN Stereo (R)

with Valerie Singleton and Robert Simpson

From his collection of broadcasting blunders, Jonathan Hewat looks at how radio presenters present themselves when things go wrong.
(Stereo) (R)

(Stereo)
(Details Sat 12.25pm)

Compiled by Jack Emery from the original transcript, presented by Helena Kennedy.
20 October 1960, the Old Bailey: the start of one of the most controversial trials of the English legal system.
Was D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" just a dirty book or was it literature?
With comments from the current DPP, Allan Green and Lord Hutchinson.
(Stereo)
(See A Book at Bedtime: Lady Chatterley's Lover)
See panel opposite

with Richard Kershaw
(Stereo)

by D. H. Lawrence, abridged for radio in 15 episodes by Alan England.
Read by Ian Hogg
BBC Pebble Mill

R4: This year marks the 30th anniversary of 'the trial of Lady Chatterley'. In this literary and legal test case, Penguin Books were charged under the (then) new Obscene Publications Act for publishing the unexpurgated version - notorious for its four-letter words and explicit sexual descriptions - of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Penguin won: the swinging 60s were off to a liberal start.
The six-day trial, in which the prosecuting counsel famously asked the jury, 'Would you allow your wife or your servant to read this book?', is re-enacted and reassessed today. Later this evening the novel itself begins an abridged but unexpurgated reading on Book at Bedtime.
'It's not just a seminal piece of history,' claims Michael Green, Controller of Radio 4. 'The trial throws up a number of issues - like what is permissible to read and to broadcast - that are still very much on the agenda today. And the book itself confronts those issues head on.'
Michael acknowledges that some may still find the work shocking and plans to preface its abridgment with a warning. 'But we have certainly not chosen to take out the "difficult" material. Radio 4 is an adult channel broadcasting to an intelligent and discriminating audience and Lady Chatterley's Lover is an important book which deserves to be heard.'
Thirty years ago many distinguished literary figures, including E.M. Forster and Rebecca West, were called to the book's defence. And Richard Hoggart, then a senior lecturer in English literature and now Chairman of the Broadcasting Research Unit, attracted a great deal of attention by declaring in court that the book was not dirty but puritanical. 'The whole thing was very well stage-managed with a splendid cast - I was the rugged provincial, a bit like Lawrence himself,' he recalls.
Just how important was the trial? 'It came at a time when many forces were working towards change and, looking back, I see it as the glint on a breaking wave. But the wave would have broken
anyway.' (David Gillard)
The Lady Chatterley Trial, 7.20pm; Book at Bedtime, 10. 45pm Radio 4

by PETER TINNISWOOD. The first of six parts. With and A Tweak of the Thread Because of Father's health, the family has to move back to London.
What is going to happen to Winston, village poacher, philosopher and Romeo? Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

(Details as Saturday 2.00pm)