Producer Tim Finney
with James Whitbourn.
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr Oliver McTernan.
Editor Philip Harding
Cliff Morgan with news, issues and conversation from the sporting world.
The weekly guide to holiday ideas and travel experiences, presented by Ken Bruce.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Ned Sherrin recalls the least worst of the Loose Endsyear.
Producers Dymphna Flynn and Alasdair Cross. Stereo
Robin Oakley , Political Editor of The Times,
Presents a personal view of a week in the life °fMPs and peers.
Producer Dennis Sewell
BBC correspondents from around the world take a look at their host countries.
Producer GeoffSpink
with Louise Botting.
The latest news from the world of personal finance and impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money.
Producer Frances Macdonald
In the first of two programmes, Barry Took takes an irreverent look at the year with Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren , Ian Hislop and Rory Bremner. Producer Diane Messias. Stereo
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This week's panel tackles the issues raised by an invited audience in Orpington, Kent. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
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Dickens's Women Miriam Margolyes introduces and plays all the characters from her recent West End success, as well as giving a vibrant insight into the life of the great writer himself.
Piano Michael Haslam. Script devised by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser
Producer Enyd Williams. Stereo ● DRAMA: page 8
Ellen Wilkinson - tiny, dynamic, determined - was the charismatic MP for Jarrow and Minister of Education in Attlee's 1945 Cabinet. John Mapplebeck marks the centenary of her birth this year with the help of those who remember her and felt something of her fire. Producer Gillian Hush
with Peter Evans.
Producer Julian Brown
Three programmes in which the writer and garden designer
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall reflects on the rich significance of the rose. 2: Maiden's Blush
Producer David Perry
The last in the series of the current affairs chat show in which Patrick Hannan and his guests take a sceptical look at the week'sevents.
Producer Richard Thomas
and Sports Round-Up
A look at the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
Sally Grace , David Tate and Alistair McGowan.
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with Robert Robinson.
Animated table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Producer Michael Ember Stereo
Out of Love
Throughout the ages artists have commemorated those whose loss has been deeply felt - the death of a loved one, the sacrifice of men and women in battle, the unexpected tragedy that befalls a community. Robert Dawson-Scott reflects on the way the arts of sculpture, poetry and music respond to this kind of loss, with the Lockerbie tragedy as one recent example that has inspired the artist.
Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo
Bernard Shaw 's play stars David Suchet as Napoleon Bonaparte. The year is 1796. A mysterious lady arrives at an inn in northern Italy. Romance and intrigue follow as the beautiful stranger is drawn into a battle of wits with Napoleon Bonaparte , the man of destiny.
Director Pat Trueman. Stereo
Artist and writer Brigid Marlin talks to Sue MacGregor about her life and work.
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by Fr Oliver McTeman. Stereo
Peter Riddell chairs the last in the series of discussion programmes that challenges its participants to think before they speak.
Producer Gwyneth Williams. Stereo
In the last of the series that gives foreigners a chance to express their views about Britain, the American academic
Robert Locke wonders why the British are in such awe of American ideas of business management.
with Dave Townsend ,
Phil Humphries and Paul Burgess - members of the Mellstock Band, which recreates the traditional village music of Thomas Hardy's Wessex.
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A glowing yuletide feast in the pages of the golden magazine's bumper
Christmas special, with snow-capped lettering and a silver sixpence hidden in the middle. With
Susie Brann, Alistair McGowan, Mary Elliot-Nelson, Peter Baynham and Julian Dutton.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
