With Barney Milligan.

With Graham Leach and Peter Hobday. Details as Boxing Day plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day With Lavinia Byrne.

4: Great Shakes - Mareth Line , 26 March 1943.

Chaired by Michael Buerk , with Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Roger Scruton.

"ore bizarre sonic landscapes with Armando lannucci.

Matthew. Part 3.

More highlights from village life in Bentley, Hampshire, with Nigel Farrell.
Hilda Evans sets out for Lake Malawi Where she was a teacher 30 years before.

The story of Arthur Uther Pendragon whose reincarnation has spirited him from the Round Table to a council house in Farnborough. He has the sword Excalibur, a warband of loyal knights, and a quest to touch the heelstone at Stonehenge at summer solstice.

A five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie 's novel, starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement.
4: Investigations into the murder are not going at all as planned.
(For cast see Holiday Tuesday, 11.30am)

Meera Syal continues her look at friendships that have been forged against the odds.
Boxer Herol "Bomber" Graham retired from the ring earlier this year. One of the few friends who stuck by him was his old school-mate Sammy.

A series of spoof documentaries.
2: The Actress. Starring Janet Suzman. Was it Valerie Draper 's dramatic integrity or her refusal to change her accent that made her one of Chris Kelly 's heroes? Producer Harry Thompson

with James Naughtie.

The season continues with a production of The Vortex by Noël Coward. First performed in 1924 at the Everyman in Hampstead, this play rocketed Coward into prominence as both actor and writer.
The action takes place in Mrs Lancaster's London flat and her country house.
Music by William Davies
Director Glyn Dearman

Robert Robinson encounters a great British tradition - the seaside landlady.

Four people return to significant places where they have lived in the past.
Ian Pollard explores the mining town of his 1950s childhood in the African bush, near the Zambian border with Zaire.

Today's Thursday... Pay day or pension day? The rainiest day of the week?

with Chris Lowe and Huw Edwards.

by Ged Parsons , starring Dominic Jephcott and Bill Wallis.
4: The Murky Mystery of Murder at St Mark's. Can the murderer at large in a Cambridge college be outwitted?

Lynda is passionately angry.

Michael O'Donnell explores the extraordinary within ordinary family relationships.
3: The Castrees. When showman
Cass Castree married Catherine, 17 years his junior, and moved in with her parents, the mother-in-law jokes took on a whole new meaning.

A Conversation in Letters. with Timothy West as Evelyn Waugh and Prunella Scales as Nancy Mitford.
Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford wrote to each other consistently from 1944 until Waugh's death in 1966. They shared the travails of the writing life, but mostly they gossiped and entertained each other. Adapted by Alan Bell
Producer Pete Atkin.

Presented by Kati Whitaker.
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A 1940s style flight to Vermont brings Alistair Cooke to his family and a computer which has swallowed several libraries, a few archives and already knows all about him.

Performer Leon Robinson , kids from the wrong side of the Thames and a stoned busker plan to stage a rap version of Faust, a production that will land them among the stars.
Producer Frances Byrnes

Last of John Wilson 's talks to people who thrive on the rush of adrenalin.
Boxer. Steve Collins aims to become middleweight champion of the world. A title fight at Olympia could take him one step closer to glory.

Part 2.

3: Following the arrest of Jones, Brown and Smith seek a ministerial audience. With Michael Feast as Jones.

Blowing Strong. Humphrey Lyttelton ends his conversation with June Knox Mawer about his life in jazz.