with the Rev Peter Read Stereo

with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev David Cohen
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Producer Nick Utechin
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with Geoff Watts
Producer Deborah Cohen

Laura's Son by Gerallt Williams.
Laura's son is a young impressionable boy growing up in a small Welsh village. Chapel life teaches him many lessons. One, in particular, he will never forget.... Read by Gareth Armstrong. Producer Caroline Saril

Rejoice with Heart and Voice (Gaudete);
Sussex Carol; Ephesians 5, vv 8-20; Light Shining in the Darkness;
0 Come, 0 Come, Emmanuel (
Veni Immanuel , BBC HB 36) Director of Music
Noel Tredinnick. Stereo

Written by Shelagh Stephenson Director Tracey Neale , Stereo

Reflections of life and politics abroad. Producer Zareer Masani

Nigel Barley concludes his anthropological ramble through Indonesia with a Christmas visit to the Goddess of the South Seas.
Producer Mick Webb. Stereo

with John Howard

with Nigel Rees.
This week from the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
The guests include Celia Haddon , Bryan Magee and Derek Robinson.
Reader Ronald Fletcher. Producer Armando lannucci Sfereo

with James Naughtie

Jenni Murray talks to Julia Middleton , Chief Executive of 'Common
Purpose', about training communities to work together. Serial:
Billy Bayswater (5)

with Dr Christopher Page , the director of Gothic Voices, this season celebrating ten successful years of performing medieval song to new audiences. Producer Judith Roles

With shopping a high priority at this time of year, Barry Cunliffe looks at one of the earliest consumer bodies, the Co-operative Movement, and traces the history of the Christmas card. Producers Kate Whitehead and Felicity Goodall

Natalie Wheen picks out the plums of Christmas television; reports on three new versions of Tchaikovsky's ballet
The Nutcracker, and visits the Museum of Modern
Art in Oxford for an exhibition of the French artist Andre Derain.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes

and Financial Report

A six-part observation of East-West diplomacy by Alex Shearer. 5: Cool Heads
The diplomats' wives' fact-finding shopping trip is grounded by hijackers. Meanwhile, the men plan a rescue. 'In my view, Colonel, the best course of action would be a swift and speedy implementation of time-honoured diplomatic principles.' 'Wait and see?' 'Precisely.'
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

The last in the series. Eric Robson reports. Producer Liz Carney

A series of six talks about the Third World. 5: Tales of a Hybrid Bourgeoisie
Homi Bhabha reflects on the cultural values and ambivalence of India's large and powerful urban middle class.

with Peter White Producer Thena Heshel
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Stereo

with Roger White Stereo

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

In My Wildest Dreams by Leslie Thomas. Part 4

Stereo (BroadcastSunday 3.30pm)