With Elaine Storkey
Editor Chris Burns
Richard Uridge uncovers more stories and characters from the British countryside.
Producer Gabi Fisher. Repeated Thursday 23 December 1.30pm
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.20 Yesterday In Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Canon David Winter.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament
Sally Deller returns to the sixties in this week's programme, as, microphone in hand, she records an audio diary at her Newcastle school reunion. Presented by John Peel.
Producer Fiona Hill. PHONE: [number removed]. E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk. Repeated Monday 20 December llpm
With Ned Sherrin. Producer Torquil MacLeod
Mary Ann Sieghart of The Times looks at the stories behind the week's political headlines. Editor Vicky Taylor
Kate Adie presents insight and analysis from correspondents worldwide, Producer Tony Grant
Alison Mitchell with the latest news from the world of personal finance, and impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money. Producer Marsha Hughes
David Aaronovitch invites celebrity guests to satirically scrutinise the week's news. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Drylaw parish church, Drylaw, Edinburgh, by panellists including Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Dr Susan Greenfield and Malcolm Rifkind.
(Repeated from yesterday)
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Lisa Jenkinson and Stephanie Browning LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Recruiting crooks into the army is nothing new. In 1921 the police force printed a list of criminals who had distinguished themselves in the Great War-a a villains' roll of honourwhich included a police killer. Julian Putkowski asks what sort of men they were. Were they good soldiers, and did they redeem themselves? Producer Matt Thompson
By Lucy M. Boston, dramatised by Brian Sibley.
Starring Patricia Routledge and Dominic Childs.
The story of Tolly, who has been sent to spend his Christmas holidays with his great grandmother in an old fenland manor house which is full of secrets, friendly ghosts and children from another time. As Christmas approaches, Tolly draws nearer to their world and, magically, is able to become part of it.
See The House at Green Knowe, Monday 20 December .
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Jenni Murray. Editor Ruth Gardiner
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. Presented by Eddie Mair.
Brian Sibley with the big picture on the world of film, including an expert guide to the pick of films on television.
Producer Harry Parker. WRITE TO: Talking Pictures, BBC Radio 4, London, W1A 1AA. E-MAIL: talking.pictures@bbc.co.uk
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the comedy show featuring sketches, songs and stand-up with a subversive twist. They are joined by regulars Bert Tyler-Moore , George Jeffrie , Emma Clarke , Simon Munnery and special guests Arnold Widdowson and Ben Willbond.
Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Tuesday 21 December llpm
The final instalment of the comedy series by Rainer Hersch and Mark Maier set in London's finest hair salon, where brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients. The Christmas Rush. When the Christmas snippinggets out of hand and the clients get too crazy, Carlo decides that he has had enough. It is time to do something about it. With Rainer Hersch , MarkMaier, Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. Producer Claire Jones
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural highlights.
What was sex like in the fifties and early sixties before, in the words of Philip Larkin 's poem, sexual intercourse began? Fraser Harrison remembers the era of the European sex goddesses: Brigitte Bardot , Sophia Loren and his personal favourite - Claudia Cardinale. Producer Tim Dee. Repeated tomorrow 12.15am
When independent television went on air in Britain in 1955 Johnny Johnston was waiting in the wings. Paul Vaughan explores the man who wrote more than 4,000 catchy tunes such as Beanz Meanz Heinz and Softness Is a Thing
Called Comfort, and who became known in the trade as the king of the jingles. With contributions from Vera Lynn , Bill Cotton , Denis Norden and Cliff Adams. Producer Phil Speight
Laurie Lee 's childhood in the Gloucestershire countryside inspired one of the century's best-loved autobiographies. Dramatised in two parts by Nick Darke. 1: The Lee family arrive in their new home. Part two is tomorrow at 3.00pm. See the choice on page 200. Repeated from Sunday
Michael Buerk chairs an investigation of the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from David Starkey , Janet Daley , Professor Robert Winston and Ian Hargreaves. Repeated from Wednesday
Chris Maslanka discovers how composers through the ages - from Bach to the present day - have been fascinated by the relationship between things musical and things mathematical. There is, for instance, a connection between the arrangement of leaves on a branch and musical intervals that mysteriously please the ear: it's called the Fibonacci sequence. Repeated from Tuesday
Contemporary poetry with Christopher Cook featuring two of Britain's most celebrated poets: journalist, war correspondent and former Oxford professor of poetry James Fenton and the millennium poet Simon Armitage. Repeated from Sunday
Judi Dench reads Hans Christian Andersen 's
Snow Queen. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall (R)
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