Farmers' Any Questions? from the Romney Marshes.
with James Whitbourn.
with Sue MacGregor and Susannah Simons.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
with the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
with Cliff Morgan.
Julian Pettifer and Maria Harding visit Cuba. Charter flights from Britain direct to Havana start this year, but is Cuba ready for the British holidaymaker?
(BBC Holidays magazine, price £1.40 available from 10 January)
Ned Sherrin with the first programme of the New Year live from Perth, Australia. With the likes of John Walters, Arthur Smith and Emma Freud in London.
(Stereo)
Can't Vote, Won't Vote Vivian White asks why many people legally entitled to vote will not be on the electoral register in 1992 - and why millions who are registered will not cast their vote.
Producer Jane Beresford
with Heather Payton. Producer Robert McKenzie
NEW special edition from Highgate marking the first programme in the 25th series. Panel: Clement Freud ,
Derek Nimmo , Peter Jones and Maureen Lipman.
Chairman Nicholas Parsons. Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
Panel: RtHon John Gummer , MP; Ann Leslie ; Jonathon Porritt and Liz Symonds. From Leiston, Suffolk. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed] with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and Lucy Cacanus
• LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
The Angel of Rome
Alessandro Moreschi was the last castrato and died in Rome in 1922. He sang as a soloist in the Vatican Choir and at all the important social and state functions. Neville Watchurst's play uncovers the triumph and the sadness of this short and unusual career.
Choir boys Jonathan Rudoe and Daniel Ison.
Director Sue Wilson. Stereo
I Annette Kobak
NEW invites six travellers to reflect on a journey.
1: Novelist Caryl Phillips recalls his search for the "European tribe" on a journey which starts with Europe's closest neighbour, Morocco, and ends with her farthest flung capital, Moscow. Producer Kate McAII
Presented by Alun Lewis. Producer Julia Durbin
Dr Christopher Andrew presents a four-part series of informed speculation. 1: British victory in the Falklands was far from inevitable.
Task Force
Commander Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward admits that he feared heavy losses. Meanwhile Simon Jenkins , Editor of The Times, calculates the domestic impact of a Task Force in trouble. Could
Mrs Thatcher have survived defeat?
Producer Ian Bell. Stereo
Six programmes in which Phil Smith examines working-class family life in the North through the intimate experiences of three generations. 1: Blood Related
ProducerGillian Hush
and Sports Round-Up
with Sally Grace , David Tate and Bill Wallis.
Stereo (Broadcastyesterday)
Robert Robinson talks with a group of Durham miners. Producer Michael Ember
It's Wilder in Hollywood Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard were two early successes for the 86-year-old American director Billy Wilder. His most acclaimed pictures included The Apartment with Jack Lemmon , and one of the best-known movies in the history of the cinema, Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe. In a rare interview in Wilder's Hollywood office, the elusive veteran director talks to Nigel Andrews.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo
A four-part dramatisation of Alessandro Manzoni's novel.
Early 17th-century Italy - a time of turbulence and unrest.
But in a tiny village on Lake Como there is a mood of anticipation. It is the eve of the wedding celebrations of Renzo and Lucia.
Translated by Bruce Penman. Dramatised by Louise Page.
(Stereo) (Repeated Friday at 2.00pm)
NEW
Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to six people from the Indian subcontinent who have influence and eminence in Britain.
1: Lord Desai of St Clement Danes
Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by the Rev
Drjohn Sentamu. Stereo
Radio 4's
Northern Lights festival begins with six programmes about the Circumpolar Arctic.
1: The Lure of the Arctic The Arctic - a great icy "Mediterranean" ringed by land: home to a million native people, a rich source of oil, gas and gold - and the perfect place to study global warming. Presented by Daniel Snowman. Stereo 0 DOCUMENTARIES: page
A further
NEW series of six autobiographical talks by Charles Arnold-Baker .
1: Why Tourists?
Producer Louise Purslow
with guitarist John Williams. Stereo
The second of four comedy shows. With Nick Hancock , Tony Hawks, Neil Mullarkey and Rebecca Front.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
