with the Rev Peter Read Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev David Cohen
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Libby Purves
Producer Bridget Osborne
from Nottingham
On the Left Side
Michael Carson 's story describes the strange seating arrangements at St Finbar's Church - how was Sister Philomena's Christmas present to blame for them?
Read by Sorcha Cusack.
Producer Duncan Minshull
Introit: A Tender
Shoot (Goldschmidt); Jesus, Hope of Every Nation (B Rose);
I Thessalonians 5, vv 1-11; People Look East; Hills of the North,
Rejoice (Little Cornard, BBCHB33). BBC Singers
Director of Music
Barry Rose. Stereo
Andy Croft assesses the life and work of Ethel Mannin , the popular romantic novelist of the inter-war years who fashioned her novels to the causes of feminism and pacifism.
Producer Dave Sheasby Stereo (R)
Presented by John Howard
Six programmes in which John Cleese and his former psychiatrist Dr Robin Skynner discuss how relationships are formed and how to sustain and develop them.
2: For Better for Worse - Which Way Will the Marriage Go?
With Brian and Jennifer Aldridge from The Archers and JR from Dallas.
Producers Rachel Yorke and Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
Presented by Jenni Murray. Serial:
Billy Bayswater (6)
Charles Dickens's last Christmas story vividly portrays the character of Redlaw, a man tormented by his past.
Dramatised by Jill Brooke
Director Kay Patrick. Stereo
Does your Long John Silver sound like Postman Pat? Is your Grand High Witch your Worst? Tony Russell picks up tips on reading aloud to children with the help of Rose Impey, James Berry and Miriam Margolyes.
In 1908
William Livingstone , a successful estate manager in Nyasaland, married
Scottish schoolteacher
Kitty Maclachlan. Their story is told through their letters, beginning with a long and colourful courtship-by-post and ending with one of the most brutal and infamous events in British colonial history.
Producer Roy Apps. Stereo
Brian Sibley discusses the new films including The NeverEnding Story II and Home and Alone; Gillian Reynolds picks the best of Christmas radio; and in a new book, B-picture king Roger
Corman tells his story. Producer Belinda Sample
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
and Financial Report
Stereo
The last of three programmes. When students Robert Weddle and Anthony Halford decided to spend a summer walking 1,000 miles from Chartres to Assisi, they little suspected how the experience would change their lives. Thirty years on, the landscape, the people and legendary shrines yield up their simple secret to Robert Weddle. A Place of Sun and Singing
Producer Simon Elmes. Stereo
The Persistence of Faith
The final talk on religion and ethics in a secular society by Rabbi
Dr Jonathan Sacks , Chief
Rabbi-elect of the United
Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.
A Community of Communities
'In a secular age, religion divides between the relevant but empty and the authentic but fanatical. Both ideas are wrong. Faith allows us to build a world more human than the one in which men, nations or economic systems have become gods.'
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
In My Wildest Dreams by Leslie Thomas. Part 5.
Robert Booth takes a light-hearted view of history. With Ferdinand Mount, Margaret Rule , Judge Stephen Tumin and Michael Wood. Producer Harry Thompson Stereo (R)
