Year of the Mad Cow
Richard Sanders and guests discuss the BSE crisis.
Producer Steve Peacock
With Alex Brodie and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
2: The two Mrs Thatchers. For details see yesterday
Hunter Davies explores those awkward, teenage years. With Lady
Longford, John Cole , Helena Kennedy QC. Garry Bushell and Mark Lamarr. Producer Lucy Cacanas Revised repeat
Raymond Seitz , former American ambassador to London, takes an affectionate look at our national sports. Producer Sian Kevin Repeat
The news from New Year's Eve 1946. For details see yesterday
The last of five programmes celebrating food. Herbs Repeat
Repeated from Friday 27 December 6.30pm
5: The Dream. Nell and her
Grandfather are forced to leave
Mrs Jarley 's employment while
Dick Swiveller has more encounters with the small servant.
For details and cast see Christmas Day
3: Don Go Out Alone. Join Club
Chaperone! Author Anne Perry joins the single women who want to go clubbing and have to pay not to go alone. For details see Boxing Day 12 noon
The last programme of the series finds Peter Snow leafing through a copy of the Cheltenham Examiner for 4 July 1866. Britain is needled as vaccination fights disease, and the Great Eastern lays the first translantic telegraph cable. Producer Andrew Green
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
ByJohnMasefield.
2: Under the Chester Hills
With Spike Milligan as Arnold of Todi. For details see yesterday Repeat
Nick Baker explores the impenetrable world of the instruction manual. Producer Nigel Acheson Repeat
Pam Cockerill follows trainer
Charles Booth through a frustrating season as he tries to transform a raw recruit into the next Red Rum.
Producer Alastair Wilson Revised repeat
By Jean Clayworth.
Read by Mary Riggans.
Producer Bruce Young Repeat
Charlie Lee. Potter and Nigel Wrench.
Kevin Connolly continues his southward drive through France. Producer Tony Grant Repeat
Up and about at long last. Pop is forgetting his heart attack and looking forward to the coming battle with the Ministry - and to his first glass of wine for weeks. Last in the series.
For details and cast see Christmas Eve 6.30pm
Unexpected guests at Lower Loxley. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Denys Blakeway looks back at four pivotal events in the last 40 years and considers their consequences.
1: The Beeching Report. Dr Richard Beeching caused an outcry in 1963 with his proposal to axe a third of Britain's railway network and close more than 2,000 stations. Producer Mark Savage
Repeated Saturday at 5.00pm
Is buying art only for the rich and the fearless who can brave the salerooms and the galleries? In the last programme of the series, Robert Robinson talks to a group of art dealers about where to find a Turner water colour at a bargain price. Producer Bruce Whitney Low Repeat
The BBC's senior news correspondents join presenter Edward Stourton for a look ahead to 1997.
What stories will dominate the airwaves and news bulletins next year? Correspondents from bureaux around the world join those based at Broadcasting House in London for a spirited discussion on the talking points of tomorrow. Producer Tony Grant
A Walk on the Water
For over 150 years, seaside piers have been a part of our holidays, but many have now fallen victim to weather, rust and time. In the year of the pier, Paul Doust promenaded along these architectural gems for
Kaleidoscope, from neon palaces of fun to crumbling ruins of neglect.
Have we reached the end of the pier, or is a renaissance in sight?
Producer Adrian Washbourne Repeat
With Jeremy Harris.
By Stendhal. 2: Julien chooses between comfortable mediocrity and heroic dreams. He decides it is his duty to attempt a seduction. For details see yesterday
Harry Thompson riffles through the pages of Punch to savour the flavour of Christmases past.
Repeated from Christmas Day 12.25pm
Eleanor Bron unravels the twilight years and complex personalities of Sir Arthur Streebe Greebling , Norwegian Sven, Alan Latchley , pop star
Eric Daley and others who prove that Peter Cook was at work in the laughter factory until the day he died. Producer Neil Trevithick Repeat
By Lewis Carroll. 2: The Red Queen runs Alice off her feet, plus a singular railway journey.
For details see yesterday Repeat
