With Alex Brodie 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 10.45pm For information on any of the items featured. call the free helpline on [number removed]
Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Celia Quantnll
Editor Jane Robins
David Walter presents some of the best stories from this year's EuroFile. Producer Sallie Davies
John Walters gets broody and moody about Christmas past. Producer Cathie Mahoney Repeat
Year Simon Hoggart presents the first of two programmes looking back at the choicest moments from the News Quiz year. Alan Coren , Francis Wheen , Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy and guests give a satirical twist to the year's stories. Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Monday 23 December 6.30pm
Repeated from yesterday
Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Frances Hodgson Burnett 's classic children's story. When wealthy Sara Crewe is forced into poverty, she discovers that her imagination and her warm heart are the only things she has left. with Ravin J Ganatra. Fenella Norman , Anthony Jackson. Timothy Morand. Jilly Bond. Ali Hames. Emma Copeland , Danielle Nelson. Lucy Kent. Becky Simpson. Sasha Hannau. Sara Macdonald. Max Wrottesley and Carla Prosser. Music composed by Robert Rigby. Dramatised by Dave Simpson Director Martin Jameson
Christopher Andrew continues his look behind the scenes as a variety of historians go about their work. He comes across a near-suicidal PhD student and a Cambridge don rejuvenated by Wagner. He finds out what top secrets can now be found on the internet and learns how in Zaire wearing your trousers inside out could just save your life.
Producer Ian Bell. Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm
Robert Robinson meets five hereditary peers of the realm. Producer Bruce Whitney Low Repeat
The American actress Nancy Cole was well known at festivals for her one-woman show on the life of Gertrude Stein. In 1987 she left Austin. Texas, carrying two suitcases and leaving a note - "Moving on to New Orleans - will be in touch". She has never been seen since. Jan Fairley investigates the life of Nancy Cole and talks to the friends and family she left behind. Producer Fiona McLean Repeat
A celebration of the more obscure objects of desire. This week, the kazoo. The membrophonic marvel much admired by skiffle groups and used for keeping pigs contented. Producer David Prest
Repeated from yesterday
Lorelei King chats to Frances Edmonds, Louise Moore and Susan Tully about the women who inspire them. Producer Liz Anstee
Repeated Boxing Day 11.30pm
The Gospel According to Black Voices Midlands-based vocal group Black
Voices go through their repertoire and talk about growing up with the gospel. Producer Jackie Christie
Repeated Friday 27 December 9.30pm
The news from 50 years ago this week, including the eyewitness account of a plane crash on a London home. Producer Judy Ward
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
The diary of William Holland , a Somerset parson, dramatised in three episodes by Eric Pringle. With Ronald Pickup as William Holland.
2: The Fruits of the Earth. Overstowey, 1800: the new century has begun. with Margaret Courtenay. Tessa Worsley , David Timson , Andrew Branch , David Collings , Stephen Critchlow , John Hartley. Jane Whittenshaw and Caroline Strong. Director Cherry Cookson Repeat
Brian Kay presents a Christmas edition. Producer Peter Thresh
Cardinal Hume reflects on the significance of the Incarnation with Richard Coles.
By Christopher Denys. The Newgate Calendar of Malefactors' Bloody
Register was a record of the crimes committed by the inmates of this
London prison during the 18th century. 1: The Life, Crimes and Death of Jonathan Wilde with John Teifer. Richard Pearce , Bill Wallis , Simon Carter , Judy Bennett and Sunny
Ormonde. Music John Telfer. Violin Don Leo
Schaliffer. Director Shaun MacLoughlin Repeat Newgate Calendar concludes on Saturday 28 December at 10.15pm
In the third of four programmes,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa tells June Knox-
Mawer why her New York debut of 1974 was "as terrifying as a parachute jump" and recalls the moment when she had to sing before an audience of 600 million viewers at the royal wedding in 1981. Producer Derek Drescher
Five surprisingly predictable jaunts by Peter Tinniswood.
3: A Good Day for Banning with Christian Rodska. Liz Goulding ,
Richard Davies , June Barrie. Stuart Organ and Harrison Dastick. Producer Pete Atkin Repeat
By Dina Mehta. Read by Vayu Naidu. Repeated from Thursday
