with Rev Keith Clements.
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Eric James.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Libby Purves with birthday guest Auberon Waugh.
Producer Lucy Cacanas. Stereo
Episode 16.
withjenni Murray.
Serial: The Vampire
Tapestry Book One: The Ancient Mind at Work (3)
Sally Hawkins presents the second in the series
Hard Times looking at poverty in Britain in the 90s. Today - who are the poor and how did they come to be so? Producer Ian Gilvear
Christopher Lee 's six-part political drama.
5: "They won't like it in Brussels, Dougal."
"That's why the idea's good. It'll get right up their noses. And we all know that when Number Ten takes on the Commission, up go the ratings....
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo
with James Naughtie.
Stereo
A thriller in five parts by Andrew Rissik. With James Aubrey as Billy Hindle, Joanna Lumley as Tara Lightbom, Gerald Harper as Sir Richard Snark, and Lisa Rowe-Beddoe as Marianne.
2: Mondays Are Hell
Hindle has not only given up killing, he has also had to give up Marianne.
Director Glyn Dearman
Stereo
with Michael Rosen.
Bel Mooney and Danny Baker pick the best books for Christmas presents.
with Clive Anderson.
In the last in the series, author Kathy Lette puts up a defence for the flirtatious
Becky Sharp from
Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Producer Kate Boston
Stereo
Nigel Andrews reports on the week's film releases, including a version of John Steinbeck 's Of Mice and Men; and, in a week when Bladerunner is released in a special "director's cut", he investigates this new trend. Producer Julian May. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Seriously Seeking J K Galbraith by Catherine Merriman. "My neighbour Babs had had them all:
Clint Eastwood , David Essex , Richard Gere ,
Burt Reynolds. ... Not really, you understand. In her dreams."
Read by Marie Phillips. Producer Caroline Sarll
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
Alex Shearer 's comedy drama, in eight parts. As Unequal as Others
The Ambassador and his staff battle on bravely, coming to terms with the changing order in Colonel Surikov's fledgling
Eastern Bloc democracy. But when equal rights for women appears on the agenda, closely followed by emerging militant feminists, the embassies echo to the sound of men closing ranks.
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo
Ring-a-ring-a-Nelson. Stereo
On the morning of 7 November
1910, the acclaimed writer of the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina died at a little railway station in the middle of Russia. In this seven-part series compiled by Michael Bakewell ,
Norman Rodway as Count Leo Tolstoy traces his long and varied career, reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends, and the characters from his books.
1: When Did I Begin to Be?
Director Rosemary Hart. Stereo
Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod. Stereo
Run of the Country Part 8.
Stereo
Six years in radio's history.
The listener to the BBC's National and Regional wireless programmes in the 1930s was fed an incessant diet of dance bands and establishment voices - until 1936 when it was discovered that microphones could operate outside the confines of the studio. Sir John Reith 's bright young men rushed headlong into the world.
Reader Daphne Oxenford. Producer Alastair Wilson
