with Fr John McCullagh.
with Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Bill Bryson 's travels in small-town America, abridged and read by Kerry Shale . The sixth of ten episodes.
Producer Lissa Evans. Stereo
Melvyn Bragg starts the year with Clive James ,
Clive Anderson and others. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
by John Milton , abridged in nine episodes.
2: Satan suggests Christ should cure his hunger by turning stones into bread.
Abridged by Adrian Mitchell Music: Elizabeth Parker Director John Theocharis
The celebrated American soprano Dawn Upshaw talks to Jenni Murray. Serial: When's It
Coming Out? Written and read by Maureen Lipman. 1: Leaving a Vacuum "'Come on Amy. Let's make some fruit pies.' Amy and I looked round in unison to see who'd uttered such an ominous sentence, but there were only the two ot us there. It was becoming obvious by the pop-eyed look on my daughter's face that the insane voice belonged to her mother. Abridged and produced by Pat McLoughlin
071-580 4444with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Robert MacKenzie 0 Lines open from 10.00am
with Linda Lewis. Editor Ken Vass
by P G Wodehouse.
Starring Griff Rhys Jones. 3: The Long Arm of Loonev Coote
Ukridge enters the world of politics and fear enters the British electorate. With Robert Bathurst.
Adam Godley , Simon Godley , Dougal Lee and Julian Dutton
Adapted by Julian Dutton producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
with James Naughtie.
by Grant Eustace.
Arthur Vernet, a chemistry student at Oxford in the 1870s, investigates a mystery surrounding the Earl of Warminster's family.
(Stereo) (Rpt)
A series in which six very different people talk frankly to
Peter White about their lives and the way in which their disabilities have shaped them.
1: Nabil Shaban , actor, writer, documentary-maker, bom with brittle bone disease, explains why "it's hip to be crip!" producer Ronni Davis. Stereo
Mark Steyn hosts teams of presenters and reviewers from Kaleidoscope as he tests their memories about last year in the arts with questions about openings and closings, winners and losers, new stars and new artists.
Producer John Boundy. Stereo
An Old, Old Story Written and read by Frederic Raphael.
Piers and Bill have been through a lot together. But nothing prepares them for the debts owed to The Sicilian Oath.
Producer Duncan Minshull
with Val Singleton and Alan Little.
Caroline returns in a quandary,
with Derek Cooper.
Hangover cures and a look at prohibition.
Boxing Day by Michael Crompton. Phylis leaves her repossessed house to walk into the unknown. A car accident leaves her in a coma over Christmas, until the memory of an old love awakens her.
Director Michael Fox. Stereo
Tirra Lirra by the River Why was Sir Lancelot's song so beguiling? Last year, the centenary of Tennyson's death,
Kaleidoscope celebrated his best-loved poem, The Lady of Shalott.
Producer Beaty Rubens.
with Roger White
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
The Doctor's Family
Morag Hood reads her ten-part abridgement of Mrs Oliphant 's novel, centred round a small country town. 6: A Fateful Outing. Producer Stewart Conn
A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's novel.
1: Theology undergraduate Paul Pennyfeather is thrown out of Oxford and forced to take a post in an eighth-rate public school.
Adapted by Jeremy Front
Producer Lissa Evans.
Mary Ellis , actress, singer and writer, talks to David Foster about her career.
