Richard Sanders reports from Surrey on a parish struggling to stay rural in the face of diversification. Producer Richard Sanders
with James Whitbourn.
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr Oliver McTernan. Editor Philip Harding
with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman
Ken Bruce and Maria Harding discover Jamaica, where reggae can be heard on the beaches and Christmas trees grow on the Blue Mountains. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Jeremy Nicholas explores the world of musical quotes, borrowings and plagiarism. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
Last of four parts.
Music David Cain, performed by the Early Music Consort. Adapted by Michael Kilgarriff Director John Powell
(First broadcast 1968)
The new panel game in which business brains challenge each other in knowledge and nerve.
With Peter Day, Rani King , Alastair Ross Goobey and Nigel Whittaker.
Chairman Nigel Cassidy. Producer Neil Koenig. Stereo
An irreverent review of the year by Barry Took , Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren , Ian Hislop and Rory Bremner. Stereo
Stephen Fry presents a selection of his favourite poetry and prose, with Jill Balcon and Martin Jarvis. Producer Alec Reid. Stereo
Stereo
Royce Ryton's play, based on the book by former Lord Chancellor Michael Havers and Edward Grayson, dramatises a notorious Victorian scandal of 1890. Director Matthew Walters. Stereo
Now that television and the package tour have reached the parts only the seriously intrepid had reached before, are the days of the serious traveller numbered?
Annette Kobak discusses this and other questions with Bill Bryson ,
PJ Kavanagh , Ella Maillart and Caryl Phillips in a programme recorded at the Cheltenham Festival.
Producer Kate McAll. Stereo
The Hybrid Rose
The final programme with the writer and garden designerjane
Fearnley-Whittingstall. Producer David Perry
John Walters gets broody and moody about Christmas past. As usual the carol singers will not do requests and on Christmas Day he finds himself a victim of the International
Brigade of Nutcracker Thieves....
Producer Cathie Mahoney. Stereo
and Sports Round-Up
Stereo
Robert Robinson eavesdrops on another series of conversations recorded at venues up and down the country. In the bar of the City Varieties Theatre in Leeds, a group of stand-up comics talk about the funny business of trying to make people laugh.
Film director Woody Allen talks to Nigel Andrews in New York: Allen talks about comedy, his change of style, and the family of actors he uses in his films.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo
Robert Louis Stevenson 's stirring adventure of life, love and honour, where two well-born young men fight on a lonely Scottish shore.
Dramatised by Trevor Royle
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo (The Beach ofFatesa, Fri 2.00pm)
Robert Robinson chairs a special challenge match featuring the winners and runners-up of the 1991 Brain of Britain and Mastermind competitions. With Chris Wright (Brain of Britain 1991); Margaret Thomas (Runner-up Brain of Britain 1991); Stephen Allen (Mastermind 1991) and Kate Ford (Runner-up Mastermind 1991).
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by Canon Colin Semper. Stereo
Steve Race looks at an illustrious collection of characters from Charles II to Christina Rossetti.
With June Barrie,
Moir Leslie , Stuart Organ and Christian Rodska.
Producer Pete Atkin. Stereo
Stereo
A four-part comedy series from Radio 4's student roadshows. Today from Newcastle Polytechnic.
With Nick Hancock , Tony Hawks, Neil Mullarkey and Regina Freedman. Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
