With Marjorie Lofthouse. Producer David Bellinger
with Jack Hywel-Davies . Including Bells on Sunday from Canterbury Cathedral.
Oliver Walston joins the monks at the Cistercian Abbey in Portglenone, Northern Ireland.
Producer Carol Trewin
Religious news and views from home and overseas with Trevor Barnes and Alison Hilliard.
Producer Christine Morgan
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speak for the Week's Good Cause on behalf of Shaftesbury Homes, a charity which offers care and support to homeless and disadvantaged youth.
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Canon Colin Semper explores in worship the reliance of God on humankind.
Omnibus edition.
bringing an escape from Christmas on the box with Santavision and some more examples of where the global village's best Yuletide programmes are to be found.
Producer Anne Reevell
4: Not by Plane. Flying is a ludicrous form of travel: an afternoon trapped with an obnoxious neighbour. But there are modes of transport which still have dignity. Andy Kershaw reports. Producer Noah Richler
With Nick Clarke.
This week the team are in Scotland where they answer questions put to them by members of the Helensburgh and Gareloch Horticultural Society. With Daphne Ledward , Fred Downham and Walter Gilmour. Chairman Dr Stefan Buczacki
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A classic performance from the archives to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens 's most famous tale.
Ralph Richardson plays the Storyteller and Scrooge in this production that was first heard on Christmas Day 1965.
With Eric Anderson. Rosemary Mason , Rosalind Shanks and Jo Manning Wilson Music by Christopher Whelen Producer Charles Lefeaux
It started as fiction. It became fact, took on a life of its own and settled in Vermont. Bill Hartson explores an eccentric library which houses the unpublished boks of unsuccessful writers. Producer Liz Jensen
Series of aural snapshots of the days of the week. Today's Sunday ... Church day? Or car boot sale day?
A seasonal literary pilgrimage.
Simon Rae introduces poems for the festive season, recorded in Cornwall, with readers June Barrie and David Goodland, and Cornish musicians Pyba. Producer Sally Marmion
Three days running she's pushed in front of you as the bus comes close - the fourth day you go for the dive, tackling her from behind with a briefcase to the knees ... Stephen Jameson joins the queue to find out if this good old British tradition went out with the ration book. Producer Sara Jane Hall
Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, Virgin, Rower of Carmel - all titles of Mary. Yet so little is known of her it is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.
Libby Purves discusses the role of Mary through the ages with Dr Elaine Storkey, Fr Wilfrid McGreal, Dr Elizabeth Stuart and Fr Martin Warner.
Pianist Emanuel Ax talks to June Knox-
Mawer about his upbringing, first in Poland and then in New York, about the time he won the Arthur Rubinstein
International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, and his partnership with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He also introduces his recordings of the piano concertos in F by Haydn and in E flat by Liszt.
Producer Derek Drescher
A Cultural History of the Banana
As the festivities subside, people reminisce about some of the more unusual and bizarre Christmases they have had which in some way illuminate the triumph and tragedy of the season. Producer Amanda Hancox
3: The Final Problem. Holmes prepares to meet his fate and his greatest adversary.
With Ann Windsor, Norman Jones, Alan Barker, Terence Edmond, Jane Whittenshaw, Richard Pearce. Dramatised by Bert Coules Director Enyd Williams
Sylvester Walsh returns with another look at characters from his 30s childhood: marvel at Pretty Timmy; weep for the Black Widow; laugh at Nicky Miller. Producer Gavin McCarthy
Holly, Ivy and Nativity
Once a song to accompany dance, today it has become a universal expression of the miracle of the Incarnation.
James Whitbourn pursues the imagery and folk-history of the carol. Producer Norman Winter
