With the Rt Rev James Jones , Bishop of Liverpool.
With Anna Hill.
Sue MacGregor and Winifred Robinson.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 7-45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events which have influenced our time.
Repeated at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of neuroscience, how far scientists have got with understanding the brain and what their research can tell us about ourselves and the world we live in. Show more
The choir of King's College Cambridge Prepare for this year's Service of Nine Lessons and Carols. Final part.
For details see Monday 21 December
With Jenni Murray and guests. Drama: Under One Roof. Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
For details see Monday 21 December
The news behind the world headlines.
Producer Tony Grant
11.30 Pollyanna
Dramatised by Peter Kerry from the novel by Eleanor H Porter. 3: The
Whole town seems to love Pollyanna except her aunt - but a shock is just ground the corner. Final part.
For details see Tuesday 22 December
With Liz Barclay and John Waite.
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With Nick Clarke.
This week the antiques quiz comes from Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, where Lars Tharp will be putting his panellists on the spot. including Hilary Kay and Penny Brittain.
Producers Elizabeth Abrahams and Anne Bristow Repeated Sunday 27 December llpm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
Based on the stories of Baroness Orczy, dramatised by Michael Butt.
Polly is shattered by an appalling murder, but the man in the corner's efforts to shed light on the mystery meet with her furious resistance. with Michael Cochrane. Stephen Thorne and Eve Karpf. Director John Taylor
From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
See panel on right for order of service. Director of music Stephen Cleobury. Organ scholar Benjamin Bayl.
Producers David Kremer and James Whitboum Repeated tomorrow 2pm on Radio 3
Michael Rosen unwraps a special Christmas edition of the programme about the way we speak and the words we use.
With Clare English and Charlie Lee -Potter.
The comedy series about a business set up to ban stress from people's lives by doing the worrying for them. In tonight's programme, Toby Longworth and Niall Ashdown worry about cars. With Rachel Atkins ,
Debra Stephenson , Simon Greenall and Lewis MacLeod.
Producer Kathy Smith
A family celebration. Repeated tomorrow 2pm
Mark Lawson with a seasonal edition of the arts programme. Producer Alison Perks
By Sally Worboyes. Part 4. Repeated from 10.45am
A special review of the year in which the Blair government came of age.
Michael White of The Guardian recalls the policies and the pratfalls with regular The Week in Westminster presenters Boris Johnson of The Daily Telegraph and Steve Richards of the New Statesman.
Editors Jane Ashley and Martin Rosenbaum
Angela Lamont reports on the technology behind some of Britain's biggest civil engineering projects. Producer Ian Gilvear
The very best of the year's broadcasting on BBC radio celebrated by Peter White. Producer Bob Carter
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E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk
WEB SITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw Repeated Sunday 27 December 6.15pm
Five stars read their chosen seasonal tale.
Derek Jacobi reads Christmas at Dingley Dell from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.
For details see Monday 21 December
The Sands of Time. The first of two programmes in which three modern magi retrace the steps taken almost 2,000 years ago. Rowan Williams , Bishop of Monmouth; Professor
Heather Couper , astronomer; and Paul Vallely of The Independent set off across the Syrian desert to re-create the atmosphere of this mystical group. Producer Christine Morgan Repeat
The First Communion of Christmas, from Lichfield Cathedral.
Celebrant Canon Charles Taylor. Preacher Dr Tom Wright, Dean of Lichfield. Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir directed by Nigel Argust. Organist Andrew Lumsden. Mass in G (Schubert);
John 1, vv 1-14; O Little Town of Bethlehem; O Come All Ye Faithful; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.
By Lynne Truss, read by Miriam Margolyes. For details see Monday 21 December
