with Anne Knighton Stereo
Sue MacGregor meets the historical novelist Philippa Gregory. (R)
with Peter Hobday and Jenny Bond.
Today and tomorrow: the winners of the Man and Woman of the Year competition are announced.
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr Oliver McTernan
by P Y Betts.
The first of eight parts read by Peggy Mason. ' "Listen to the guns in France," the grown-ups would say. France was not so very far away.'
Producer Alison Hindell. Stereo
In the second of two programmes, the Treherbert trippers get into the Spanish way of life ...
(Details as yesterday)
Past Punters join
Susan Marling for flashbacks and updates on their reports.
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BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR
2: Does the Team Think? A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards ,
Arthur Askey , Ted Ray and Cyril Fletcher. In the chair
McDonald Hobley, with special guest Denis Norden.
Producer Edward Taylor
(First broadcast in 1972)
Heard It Through the Grapevine by Christina Prado.
Read by Richard Tate. Producer Michael Adams
Stereo
4: Sergeant Troy
'I like soldiers, but not this one. His cleverness in his calling may have tempted him astray....' Storyteller Garard Green. with Paul Downing , William Eedle , Stephen Garlick , Danny Schiller , James Greene , Penelope Lee , Richard Tate , Vincent Brimble , Norman Bird ,
Rosalind Adams , Michael Graham Cox , Jenny Howe , Jane Whittenshaw and Dale Rapley.
Flautist Maurice Cambridge. Stereo (R)
4: A queen is crowned in Puddletown.
Stereo
with John Harrison
The Phantom of Svengali The idea of a charismatic and mysterious muse who guides and enhances a protegee's career has inspired books, films and shows, but what's the true meaning of the Svengali story? Jenni Murray talks to Michael Winner , Beryl Reid , Jill Washington and Sarah Harrison , with contributions from
Harriett Hawkins , Robyn Archer , Verity Lambert and Antoinette Sibley , and the voices of Joan Sutherland , Roger Vadim , Madonna, Yazz, Malcolm McLaren , Jean Shrimpton. Excerpts from Trilby by George du Maurier are read by David Timson. Producer Nadine Grieve
by Agatha Christie.
Simeon Lee is a monster to all around him and especially his family - but someone has planned to seek revenge on this particular Christmas Eve.
Police:
Household:
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Enyd Williams. Stereo (R)
3: Robert Robinson in conversation with a group of distinguished actors in the Garrick Club. (R)
withValerie Singleton
2: Cricketing Heroes by Neville Cardus.
Read by Struan Rodger. Producer Jane Morgan Stereo (R)
4: The hop-pickers arrive in Bentley and the gardens of Jenkyn Place face the ultimate test.
A special Christmas edition of the panel show with Iain Johnstone.
The panel: Dick Vosburgh, Barbara Windsor, Barry Cryer and Robin Ray.
(Stereo)
The last of three programmes.
Time to Go Home
Reporter Neil Walker tells the story of the day that Elsie McKean entered an old people's home. Producer Glyn Jones (R)
The last of three programmes.The cellist Robert Cohen talks to
June Knox-Mawer about his upbringing in a musical family, his
Stradivarius cello, and the problems of platform nerves. He introduces part of his recording of Schubert's String Quintet in C with the Amadeus
Quartet, and the whole of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Zdenek Macal. Stereo (R)
The third of three programmes with Michael Bentine.
The Voice Beautiful (R)
Sentimental Values
Is sentimentality just a little innocent tugging of the heart-strings, or does it cheapen deep emotions? Mark Steyn takes a generous bite into the soft centres, the tender-hearted heroes, the unexpected happy endings, and the tears that well up as the music swells.
Producer John Goudie Stereo (R)
Richard Quest in New York presents a special report on the crisis facing American banks.
Plus a round-up of the market news. Stereo
with Michael Vestey Stereo
In My Wildest Dreams by Leslie Thomas Part 11 (R)
Written by Charlotte Parkins Gilman.
The first in a series of eight nerve-tinglers introduced by Edward de Souza, the Man in Black
A woman is alone in a room that was once a nursery. Soon it becomes a kind of hell for her ...
(Stereo)
Joanna Lumley is Robin Ray 's guest. Stereo (R)
