6.25am Prayer for the Day with the Rev Dave Pole. Stereo
Oliver Walston celebrates the New Year somewhere on the Sussex Downs. Producer Carol Trewin (R)
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Including:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Tom Butler
by P Y Betts. Part 4. (Details as last Thursday)
Jeremy Nicholas presents a kaleidoscopic impression of the highways, and some of the byways, where Latin still flourishes.
Featuring Martin Jarvis as Nigel Molesworth.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
Geoff Watts visits
Liverpool - one of several cities across the world taking part in a pioneering project to make the urban environment a healthier and happier one.
Producer Alison Richards
Fizz by Anne Jackson. Read by Judith Barker. Producer Gillian Hush
Lord, for the Years (Lord of the Years); Revelation 21: vv 1-7; Jubilate Deo (Walton); Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Austria, BBC HB 176). Director of Music
Noel Tredinnick. Stereo
Written by Shelagh Stephenson Director Tracey Neale. Stereo
Reflections of life and politics abroad. Producer Zareer Masani
Six programmes in which Patrick Hannan tries to leap the gap between what people say and what they mean.
1: What Everybody Else Knows
Producer Hilary Jones
with John Howard
with Nigel Rees.
This week's guests: Glenda Jackson, Dan Jacobson, Peter Jones and Alan Plater.
Reader Ronald Fletcher.
(Stereo)
with James Naughtie
Jenni Murray talks to women who are going to go far in 1991 and predicts the trends and styles of the coming year. Short story:
Goodness and Mercy by Alice Munro. Read by Margaret Robinson. Abridged by Meg Clarke
The Bluer Sea A comedy by Amanda Swift.
When Betty and May arrive on board the liner 'Song of Hawaii', equipped only with plimsolls, a rebellious nature and an obsession with Angela Rippon , their horizons open up in the most unexpected way.
Director Paul Schlesinger. Stereo
with James Merryweather , Anthony Barton and Tim Bayley - three members of a group that takes its name from the Lord Mayor's Band in ancient York: the York Waits.
Producer Michael Emery. Stereo
People are becoming more fitness conscious, but where does the exercise finish and gimmick start? Reporters
David Clayton and Neil Walker try aquaerobics, cardiofunk and martial moves.
Producer Nick Clarke
Michael Billington talks to Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave , who are currently appearing in the West End production of Chekhov's play, Three Sisters.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo (R)
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
and Financial Report
A musical panel game. John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo (R)
The Woman and the Writer
Anna Vaux presents a view of the woman described by A Alvarez as 'one of the finest English writers of this century'. With Diana Athill, Carole Angier , Diana and George Melly , Francis Wyndham , A Alvarez, and extracts from her work read by Anna Massey.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
A far from everyday story of country folk.
Gillian Reynolds reflects on the magic moments and the behind-the-scenes machinations of the world's longest running radio serial - The Archers.
Producer Ian Bell t FEATURE: page 18
John Hull discusses his personal account of becoming blind, Touching the Rock, with Tony Barringer and Hannah Wright , who have also lost their sight. Presented by Peter White.
Producer Thena Heshel
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Paul Vaughan looks back at the arts in 1990. Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo
by Jeanette Winterson. Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel. Producer Tessa Kendall (R)
Presented by Robin Lustig Stereo
The Warden by Anthony Trollope. 2: The Petition
Six programmes in which Rosemary Hartill explores the relationship between God and the poets.
1: Medieval England: The Quest
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read by Nigel Forde and Ronald Waldron.
Producer Amanda Hancox Stereo (R)
Liz Lochhead , Norman MacCaig ,
Catriona Montgomery and William Neill present a personal selection of their poetry for Ne'erday. Presented by Joy Hendry.
Producer Michael Shaw
