Presented and produced by Tim Finney.

with James Whitbourn.

with Chris Lowe and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Myra Blyth
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Gill Pulsford

Essex Fights Back
Simon Parkes (a Somerset man himself) explores
"Undiscovered Essex" - the charm and beauty of a Much-maligned county.
And David Prest escapes the tourist traps of Florence.
Producer Sara Jane Hall

Ned Sherrin with Arthur Smith , John Walters and Emma Freud.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

with Michael White.
Political Editor of The Guardian.
Producer Dennis Sewell

with Brian Hanrahan. Editor Anna Carragher

with Alison Mitchell. Producer Virginia Eastman

The antidote to panel games.
Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair.
With Willie Rushton. Paul Merton , Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
At the piano Colin Sell.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Jonathan Dimbleby and guests Lady Howe. Chairwoman of Opportunity 2000; Glenys Kinnock , Chairwoman of One World Action; Sir
Nigel Mobbs , Chairman of Aims of Industry and Slough Estates plc; and Anthony Smith ,
President of Magdalen
College, Oxford, tackle the issues raised in Banbury, Oxon.

Your opportunity to call Jonathan Dimbleby with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Nick Utechin and Emma Selby
● LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol.
Martin Conisby becomes involved with more pirates, more battles, jealousy, misunderstandings and an unexpected reconciliation. All packed into this adventurous dramatisation, a self-contained sequel to last Monday's Black Bartlemy's Treasure.
Dramatised by Michael Bartlett
Director Glyn Dearman Stereo

Christopher Cook and Sean Street celebrate the 100th edition of Age to Age. For the last programme in this series they turn the clock back to 1892. don white tie and tails and set off for an evening at the theatre followed by a champagne supper.
Producer John Knight

Peter Evans reports on the highlights of last week's meeting of the British Psychology Society. Producer Peter Croasdale

In the last programme of the series Rufus Bellamy searches for an eco-friendly Christmas tree and ends up in flames; the Bishop of Durham burns with indignation; and Botswana unleashes a broadside on the Rio backsliders.
Presented by Roger Harrabin.
Editor Tim Finney

with Patrick Hannan. Producer Richard Thomas

and Sports Round-Up

Stereo

Tom Robinson presents the last in the series of rough guides to manhood. Producer Chris Paling. Stereo

lain Sinclair won much acclaim for his novel Downriver. He is currently researching his next novel Landor's Tower, which is set in Wales and again concerns the obsessive world of book dealers. Dai Smith tours the sites of this work in progress. Producer Paul Quinn. Stereo

As a celebration of the 85th birthday of Christopher Fry, this re-broadcast of his 1977 play is preceded by The Holly Berries Are Just Reddening, a birthday "garland" presented by the actor George Baker.

The Boy with a Cart tells the story of Cuthman, who bumped his mother in a cart from Cornwall to Sussex until they came to rest in the village of Steyning.
With Douglas Blackwell, Alaric Cotter, Richard Derrington, Malcolm Gerrard, Michael N Harbour, Kenneth Shanley and Valerie Sarruf
(Stereo)

Sue MacGregor meets Kathy Stobart , jazz saxophonist, to talk about her life and work.
Stereo

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Anthony Sellors. Stereo

led by Rev David Hutt. Stereo

In the last programme of the series Sarah Baxter ,
Henry Porter and a guest mull over one of today's knottier issues.
Producer Sue Davies. Stereo

Grant Lathe talks to
Ray Brown about his childhood memories of Canada.
Producer Gillian Hush

and looks at the world of English folk song and its singers, with collector John Howson and archivist
Malcolm Taylor.
Stereo

Simon Brett chooses diary extracts for 18 December.
Rumours fly around the White House from the journal of Harold L Ickes in 1937: a convincing Jack-the-Ripper theory from R D Blumenfeld in 1901: and in 1939. as news comes through from the River Plate, Mass-Observation diarists give their reactions to the scuttling of the Graf Spce. Readers Sean Barrett , Jane Whittenshaw and June Barrie.
Stereo