With James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Norman Winter
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon Eric James.
Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Isobel Williams
Travel news with Anne Gregg. Producer Dave Harvey
Repeated tomorrow at 10.45pm
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Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Torquil MacLeod
Simon Heffer of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at Westminster. Editor Jane Robins
Presented by David Walter. Producer Sallie Davies
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Frances Macdonald
The Arts Theatre, Cambridge, is the setting for the final show-down in the current series. The battle lines are drawn up; Humphrey Lyttelton is primed and Barry Cryer , Willie Rushton. Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are loaded. Colin Sell is at the piano. Producer Jon Naismith
Repeated Monday at 6.30pm
Discussion from South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, with Sir David Naish, Helena Kennedy QC, Professor Colin Blakemore and Julia Cleverdon. Nick Clarke is in the chair.
(Repeated from yesterday)
[number removed] Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
A rare cinnamon plush bear with boot-button eyes discovers he is Lot No 107, and the auction is about to begin.
with Linda Regan, George Allonby, Jack Allonby, Jane Whittenshaw, Sandra James-Young, Gary Bryden, Stephen Critchlow, Henry Cormack, Jonathan Praeger, Alexis Edyvean, Paul Jenkins and John Turner.
Director Tracey Neale
Repeat
Professor Christopher Andrew continues his look behind the scenes as a variety of historians go about their work. Today, he reveals how a best-selling historian gets to grips with his subject, why a student's work may be too top-secret for his examiners to read, and what an Ulster historian makes of a war memorial that proved an embarrassment to the Irish
Republic for almost half a century.
Producer Ian Bell. Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm
Peter Evans and guests browse through the science books in the shops at Christmas time.
Producer Deborah Cohen. Repeated Tuesday at 8.00pm. E MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Reporter Jenny Cuffe. Repeated from Tuesday
Eylure eyelashes. Eight million pairs of false eyelashes a year were sold in the sixties. Molly Parkin joins designers, make-up artists and the factory workers of Cwmbran in tribute. Producer David Prest
Jokes about this week's news with Sally Grace , Meera Syal and Dave Lamb. Repeated from yesterday
Lorelei King chats to Cristina Odone , Annabel Giles and Moya O'Shea about the women who inspire them. Producer Liz Anstee
Repeated Thursday at 11.30pm
An interview with Richard Mabey , whose Flora Brittanica has recently been published after years of research in libraries and at grass roots. Producer Beaty Rubens
Repeated Friday at 9.30pm
A look back at some of the news stories and events that took place 50 years ago this week. Producer Angela Sherwin
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
With Ronald Pickup as William Holland Another chance to hear Eric Pringle 's highly acclaimed three-part dramatisation of the diaries of William Holland , a Somerset parson who began to write about life in a small
West Country community at the turn of the 18th century.
With David Timson , Andrew Branch.
John Hartley , Stephen Critchlow and Jane Whittenshaw Director Cherry Cookson Repeat
Brian Kay introduces musical classics. Producer Peter Thresh
In conversation with Richard Coles ,
Daily Express editor Richard Addis talks about his spiritual journey.
By Mike Bradwell.
As Ricky, an American entrepreneur, gradually attunes to East German life, he finds the hard-nosed business tactics of his colleagues increasingly repugnant. With loan Meredith, Keith Dnnkel, Alice Arnold, Helen Cooper, Stuart Milligan, Chris Pavlo, Mike Traynor, Mark Bonnar and Denys Hawthorne. Music arranged and performed by Neil Brand. Director Eoin O'Callaghan (Repeat)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the best-loved singers of our time, talks to June Knox-Mawer about her life and her music. In this second programme, she recalls her move from the London Opera Centre, where she studied, to the Royal Opera House and her glittering debut in 1971 as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro.
The second of five surprisingly predictable jaunts by Peter Tinniswood. Happy Days. With Stephen Thorne as Uncle Mort, Sam Kelly as Carter,
Christian Rodska as the narrator and Howell Evans as Mr Roberts.
Written by Peter Tinniswood Producer Pete Atkin Repeat
By Ian Broomfield. Reader Keith Drinkel. Repeated from Wednesday
