Log Special
This is the season for logs - oak, ash, elfn and chocolate: a useful source of seasonal pin money.
Producer George Macpherson

With Father Danny McLoughlin.

With James Naughtie and Peter Hobday. Details as yesterday plus: 745 Thought for the Day with John Dunlop.

John Mortimer reads Part 2. For details see yesterday

Craig Anderson explores the sports that were seeded throughout the world as part of the British Empire. Producer Lamont Howie
First broadcast on Radio Scotland

The playwright Alan Bennett reads extracts from his 1980-90 diaries. Producer Gillian Hush. Revised

by E B White. Final part: Who will be Wilbur's friend now?
For details see Monday 19 December

2: Love Letters. Debbie casts a cool eye over her batch of letters - while Peter is intrigued by one particular Message.

From sagebush to silver screen he rode the range, but few have heard of his exploits. Among his number are
Bill Pickett , Bose Ikard , Jesse Stahle , Cleo Hearn and Herb Jeffries. He is the Black Cowboy. Gavin Esier heads West to find out what it was really like. Producer Chns Kimber

2: Hercule Poirot 's services are about to be required.
For details see yesterday

Sara Parker reports on people who do other people's jobs.
2: The Locum Vicar (Part 1)

You and chairman Tim Brooke-Taylor have to guess who's hoaxing. With panellists Dulcie Gray , Miles Kington and John Wells.
Producer Edward Taylor

with James Cox.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Carlo Collodi 's classic Italian tale, dramatised by Tina Pepler and starring Mark Burrows as Pinocchio and Stephen Moore as Geppetto the toymaker, follows the perilious adventures of a cheeky wooden puppet who learns goodness and is transformed into a real boy.
Other parts played by members of the cast
Music by Peter Howell. Director Michael Earley

Armando lannucci takes some more tentative steps into a world of extremes. 1: Money. Armando is not waving but drowning - in a sea of financial advice. Producer Brian King

Simon Dring retraces the hippy trail East, comparing dreams and adventures with today's travellers. 2: Never What's Expected

Second of five stories for Christmas written and read by Deborah Moggach. The Use of Irony. Paula needs to work on her essay. Will Esther's house give her the space she's looking for?

with Hugh Sykes and Nigel Wrench.

In the first of four programmes, Kevin Connolly travels to the Russian Far East city of Komsomolsk where the secret police pay him a visit. Producer Tony Grant Rpt

In the final episode of the epic mini-series by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman , the world is still teetering on the brink of war. As it was five episodes ago. For cast see Tuesday 20 December

Is Alice in Wonderland?
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

From Mahler to Morrissey and from Leonard Cohen to Country and Western and the Blues, Professor
Anthony Clare asks why gloomy music is so popular and, with guests such as Sir Colin Davis , explores how mournful sounds work on the mind. Producer Paul Kobrak

BBC correspondents from home and abroad look ahead to 1995, forecasting the events that will dominate the news and conversation. Producer Tony Grant

Presented by Peter White.
For details see Tuesday 20 December

A profile of folk singer June Tabor.
Repeated from Saturday 17 December 7.20pm

with Owen Bennett-Jones .

Part 2 by F Scott Fitzgerald. For details see yesterday

Lisbon. Dance teacher Ruth Silk moved to Lisbon to change her life.
David Lodge discovers the surprising effect the city has had on her.

2: Jazz pianist George Shearing tells June Knox-Mawer how he made his name in this country, topping the polls throughout the war years. In 1948, he emigrated to the States where he formed his hugely successful quintet.