4 Common Treasury. Anna Hill presents a short history of peasant protest, from Diggers to Ravers.
Producer Alasdair Cross
With Father Danny McLoughlin.
with Peter Hobday and Graham Leach. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Leslie Griffiths.
John Mortimer reads Part 3. For details see Boxing Day
with Libby Purves and guests.
Part 1 of William Horwood's delightful story of the further adventures of Toad, Ratty, Badger and Mole, abridged in eight episodes by Elizabeth Bradbury. Read by David Suchet.
3: Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Katie and friends sift through some Promising replies.
Film historian and raconteur
John Huntley takes his sights off trains in Movies and recalls the eccentric British composers of the 40s and 50s.
Producer Barry Littlechild. Rptd Friday 6.30pm
3: A murderer is at large - and may be a member of the expedition. For details see Boxing Day
Sara Parker reports on people who do °therpeople'sjobs.
3: The Locum V/car(Part 2)
with Maurice Denham in stories by P G WOdehouse. 3: The Clicking of Cuthbert. With Jonathan Cecil , Betty Marsden , John Graham , John Kane and Sue Holderness.
Drarnatised by Edward Taylor and Michael Pointon
with James Cox.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
In Jules Verne's classic Victorian adventure story, Lidenbrok, a Hamburg geologist, decodes the runes of Arne Saknussemm, revealing a passage to the centre of the earth. Entering at the icy Snaefells Peak, Lidenbrok's expedition delves not only into the earth's core, but into the terrifying world of their own inner beings.
Dramatised by Steve Walker
Director Eoin O'Callaghan
2: Ideal Homes. Armando lannucci discovers that an Englishman's home is his castle - and his prison.
A journey re-creating the hippy trail to India. 3: No Village Too Remote. The Chief of the Hamzazai tribe in north-west Pakistan offers green tea and sympathy. Reporter Simon Dring. Rpt
A third story by Deborah Moggach.
Rent-a-Granny. Munro needs to shift his writer's block.
with Hugh Sykes and Jon Sopel.
2: Kevin Connolly travels to the Arctic city of Norilsk. Built by prisoners, it has now become a jail to the people living there.
A special invitation challenge match featuring the winners and runners-up of the 1994 Brain of Britain and Mastermind competitions. Those taking part are Ian Wynn-Mackenzie (Brain of Britain 1994), Jeremy Cotton (Runner-up Brain of Britain 1994), George Davidson (Mastermind 1994) and Graham Roe (Runner-up Mastermind 1994). Chairman Robert Robinson. Producer Richard Edis
Repeated on New Year's Eve at 11.00pm
Tom's on a crusade...
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Dramatised by John Fletcher from the novel by David Grubb , and best known as a celebrated Hollywood "film noir". Starring Struan Rodger as the Preacher, Tom Lawrence as John Harper Jnr, Angela Shaftoe as Pearl Harper and Betsy Blair as Ma Cooper. Two children are chased across rural America by a terrifying killer.
(Rpt)
by Waldo Frank. First published in Esquire magazine in the 1940s: a mysterious tale of a chance encounter in a lonely seaside hotel. Read by Bradley Lavelle. Producer Lucy Hackney
Simplify Me When I'm Dead Keith Douglas , who was an accomplished writer, artist and fighter before he enlisted, kept ajournal of the battle for North Africa, Alamein to Zem Zem, that has become a classic.
Sean Street reassesses a paradoxical life. Producer Julian May
with Max Pearson.
by F Scott Fitzgerald. Part 3. For details see Boxing Day
Repeated from Friday 23 Dec at 10.00am
Pianist George Shearing , now in his 70s, looks back with June Knox-
Mawer to his early years in America when the unique sound of his quintet caught the public ear with such tunes as his own Lullaby of Birdland.
