The daily bulletin of rural current affairs. Producers John Harvey and Robin Maynard
with Rev Alan Reid.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Pauline Webb
Children's programming for young John McKay was not Radio 5 or Blue Peter , but Sean Connery as James Bond , whose manhood he's never been able to match. Producer Noah Richler
Melvyn Bragg and guests with lively and stimulating conversation. Producer Mary Sharp
Ezekiel. Read in sixepisodes by Paul Scofield. 5: "The Destruction of Tyre". Abridged by Barbara Henderson Producer David Benedictus
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Very Dead of Winter by Mary Hocking. Read in ten episodes by Maureen O'Brien.
As a family gathers for Christmas in a remote cottage in a snowbound wood, a secret is revealed. Abridged by Monica Grey
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selene
[number removed]Producer Sarah Pennells
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
A perennial favourite since it began life in 1967, the musical panel game returns with a new batch of questions set by Steve Race. Facing the challenge are the two regular teams of John Amis and Frank Muir , and Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J Mason Producer Richard Edis
with James Naughtie.
This dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic love story set during the English Civil War is being rebroadcast as a companion piece to Saturday's My Cousin Rachel. Its heroine is the beautiful Honor Harris, crippled in a riding accident, yet loved forever by Sir Richard Grenville, the King's General in the West.
Sue MacGregor talks to Chrissie Maher , director of the Plain English Campaign, about her life and work. Producer Gillian Hush
Natalie Wheen reviews this month's record releases and talks to Neil Bartlett , outrageous author and director designate of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Producer Erika Wright
by David Marshall.
"Love me, love my family," Connie tells Chris, as she press-gangs him into a Christmas with the barbarous gentry. Read by Richard E Grant. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
Humphrey Lyttelton asks the questions. Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Willie Rushton and Barry Cryer are around the table. With Colin Sell on piano.
Give turkeys a happy Christmas!
Today: a look into why most of Europe's lemon crop is rotting in Spain, despoiling the land and bankrupting the farmers. Presented by Derek Cooper.
The last play that American writer Lorraine Hansberry worked on before her death in 1965, Les Blancsvias finished, from her notes and their conversations, by her husband Robert Nemiroff. This is its first British production.
Returning home to an Africa in the midst of an anti-colonial war, Tshembe Matoseh must make a choice. The question is, can liberation ever be achieved without violent revolution?
Adapted and directed by Heather Goodman
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Roger White.
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Continuing the seven-part adaptation of John Steinbeck 's classic story. Part 3. Read by Gayle Hunnicut. Adapted by James Lampley Producer Ned Chaillet
Second Thoughts by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie , starring James Bolam as Bill and Lynda Bellingham as Faith. 3: Night Moves
With Kelda Holmes and Mark Denham.
Producer Pete Atkin
