Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

with the Rev Dave Pole Stereo

Novelists in conversation with Rosemary Hartill about how their ideas and beliefs influence their work. 2: Chaim Potok
'You pay a very high price for "leaving", because so much of you is tied to that world that you perform surgery on yourself as you walk away.'
Producer David Coomes (R)

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday Including:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer

Part 3.
Stereo (Details fast Thursday)

Another chance to hear this classic show celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Angus Prune Tune.
With Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese
Graeme Garden
David Hatch
Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Music Dave Lee and the boys Producer Richard Willcox. Stereo
* (R) (First broadcast on Radio 2)

Toys Galore by Antonis Samarakis. Nothing out of the ordinary. The man was looking for five toys for his five children.
Read by Andrew Sachs. Translated by Gavin Betts Producer John Theocharis Stereo

from Glasgow.
A reflection at the end of the year, led by the Rev Johnston McKay. Hymns: 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past (CH3 611), All My Hope on God Is Founded (CH3 405).
Reading: Luke 2,w 25-35. Stereo

Simon Rae introduces a selection of poetry for New Year's Eve.
Readers Betty Mulcahy and Nick Chilvers.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
0 REQUESTS to:
Poetry Please!. BBC. Bristol, BS8 2LR

Presented by John Howard Editor Ken Vass

Peter Tinniswood 's six-part serial.
1: I'm in Love. I'm in Love
Now that Nancy has fallen in love with Roland from the Ministry of Whatsisname, she doesn't like to remember what happened with Winston under the old beech tree at Winterleaf Gunner.
Director Shaun Macloughlin Stereo (R)

with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey

Presented by Jenni Murray.
A chance to hear the highlights of the year, from Mrs Thatcher to Marti Caine, Elektra to Neil Kinnock.
Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

Kenneth Grahame wrote the children's classic, The Wind in the Willows. But his private life was much less successful.
Written by David Gooderson.
Pianist Mary Nash
Director Richard Wortley. Stereo (R)

Paul Vaughan thumbs through the back numbers and recalls the crises and the triumphs that were 1990 in the Arts:
Glasgow, David Mellor , Monet, Donatello ... Producer Beaty Rubens
Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh e WRITE to: PM Letters. BBC. London W1A 1AA

and Financial Report

Stereo

Cyrano De Bergerac
A classic radio appearance by Ralph Richardson as Cyrano, poet, swordsman and wit, who is doomed in love by his preposterous nose. A heroic comedy by Edmond Rostand. with Nigel Anthony , Anthony Hall , Basil Jones ,
Kevin McHugh , Geoffrey Matthews and Humphrey Morton
Director John Powell. Stereo (R)

A short story by Mordecai Richler.
Read by William Roberts. Producer Duncan Minshull
(R)

with Robin Lustig
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

The Warden
The first of Trollope's popular Chronicles of Barsetshire read in ten parts by Jeremy Nicholas. Hirams's Hospital
Mr Harding , a clergyman of great personal integrity, finds himself the central figure in a financial scandal that has reverberations far beyond the cathedral town of Barchester.
Abridged and produced by Betty Jowitt (R)

Clutching back copies of The People's Friend,
Harry Thompson stands at the gate of the year in the company of Minnie Louise Haskins , Madam Morgana and the stock and staff of Mysteries shop - and finds himself inexplicably on the brink of a New Age ...
Producer Amanda Mares

In a New Year meditation the Bishop of Edinburgh, the Rt Rev
Richard Holloway , reflects on 1990 as it draws to a close and looks forward with hope to 1991.
Producer Polly Hudson. Stereo