Brain Kay presents seasonal music. Producer Peter Thresh

Join Russell Davies and guests around the breakfast table for myrrh. music and some food for thought. Producer Mark Smalley

Paul Eddington 's autobiography (3). For details see Monday

Speaks to the Commonwealth.

From Chapel of Bethlehem University led by the Very Rev John Tidy with the Royal National Scottish Orchestra Chorus.

Sarah Dunant with guests John Fortune and John Bird. Producer Viv Beeby .
Repeated Sunday 29 December 7.30pm

Five programmes celebrating food. 1: The Cherry
Producer Min Raisman Repeat

In the first of three programmes, Mark Lawson presents his choice of writing from the pre-war New Vortermagazine. featuring some of the music from the era. 1: Say It Isn't So. With William Hope. Lorelei King and Kerry Shale. Producer Viv Beeby

By Charles Dickens , dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth Proud. 1: Mysteries and Secrets Dickens meets Little Nell. with Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Michael Mears.
Rowan Stuart , Fiona Christie. Keith Drinkel.
Terry Molloy. David Vann. David Timson , Sunny Ormonde. Ann Beach. Richard Pearce. Kim Wall. Jean Perkins. Rebecca Wright. Simon Carter. Charmian Eyre. Richard Curnow.
Geoffrey Whitehead. Alex Jones. John Dixon. Elizabeth Proud. James Thackwray. Lennox Greaves. Norman Bird and Geoffrey Serle. Music composed and played by Malcolm McKee with Audrey Douglas. Steve Roberts and Paul Arden Taylor. Director Sue Wilson

A Christmas edition of the British Comedy Award-nominated series. Starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard. Revised repeat

Harry Thompson looks back to the inter-war years and riffles through the pages of Punch to savour the flavour ofChristmasespast. Producer Amanda Mares
Repeated New Year's Eve 11.00pm

Armando lannucci reveals the books that have influenced his own original and inventive breed of satire. Producer Julian Wilkinson

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Judi Dench , John Moffat and Michael Williams read some much-loved poems and stories from times gone by. With Michael Haslam at the piano. Director Enyd Williams

Film historian John Huntley traces the history of sound effects in the movies. Producer Barry Littlechild
Repeated Monday 30 December 11.00pm

Last Christmas three very different households recorded their celebrations.
But did they all have a good time? Producer Suzy Andrews

By 0 Henry. Read by Bob Sherman. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
Repeated Saturday 28 December

Featuring Barry Cryer. Graeme Garden. Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor . Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair and Colin Sell at the merry organ.
Producer Jon Naismith Revised repeat

Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producer Paul Schlesinger

Valerie Grove seeks out the real, Mrs Miniver. Reader Patricia Hodge. Producers Joanna Toye and Gill Powell Revised repeat

Neil Mullarkey , Jennifer Patterson. Anton Rodgers and Ann Thwaite join Nigel Rees for the quotation quiz. Quotations read by Peter Dickson. Producer Kathy Smith Repeat

Fun and games at the Dower House. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm

Ray Gosling discovers a small Anglican diocese in Pau. south-west France. Producer Alastair Wilson Repeat

The last of four programmes examining what the points of the compass mean to us: East. Written and presented by Simon Armitage. Producer Susan Roberts

Nanette Newman presents a dramatisation of original letters written by Edwardian children to actresses who played Peter Pan. Producer Philippa Ritchie Repeat

Frank Delaney goes in search of real places made imaginary by great
French writers. 2: The Lost Chateau Producer Liz Jensen Repeat

Speaking of Rivers
Brian Morton discovers the inspirational work of Langston Hughes , the greatest black writer of his generation. Producer Erika Wright Repeat

Voices in an Empty Room
A collection of ghost poems. Producer David Hunter

3: When Satan Goes Home for
Christmas
For details see Monday 23 December

A look back at Christmas Day 1946. For details see Monday 23 December

This Boy's Life. Tobias Wolff reads from his acclaimed memoir.
Producer Duncan Minshull Repeat

"Beneath the angels ' strain ...
...have rolled 2,000 years of wrong." Nicholas Frayling , Rector of Liverpool, reflects on pardon and peace. Producer Norman Winter

Written and performed by Viv Stanshall. 3: A Christmas Eating at Rawlinson End First broadcast on Radio 1