With Elaine Storkey

With Rupert Segar

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.

Jeremy Paxman and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Ariane Koek. Repeated at 9.30pm

I With Martha Kearney and guests.
! Drama: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman. Part 6 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm

John McCarthy presents a series about his attempt to understand the Bible.
4: The Prophet Margins. In the Bible prophets are brave souls, fearlessly calling on kings and people alike to face up to their moral duty. This week McCarthy asks Tony Benn , Hanan Ashrawi , Lea Rabin and Bill Clinton 's spiritual guru Tony Campolo : where are the prophets of today? Producer Roger Childs

A festive comedy by Nev Fountain.
Santa's son returns to the North Pole, having qualified as a management consultant. He aims to restructure, redefine and expand the age-old business of Christmas.
Producer Maria Esposito

With John Waite and Peter White. With the Veg
Talkmen, Greg and Charlie, visiting markets around the country.

With Nick Clarke

i Lionel Kellewaypresentsthewildlifequizwhich I aimsto find Britain's top naturalist. This week's programme comes from Dinton Pastures Country Park near Reading, producer Brett Westwood

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

By Daniel Brocklehurst. Paul Hague arrives home on Christmas Eve to find other people living in his house. He is arrested after a fight breaks out, but the police can find no evidence of his existence....
Director Melanie Harris

Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on a topical
| issue that affects yourfinances.
I Producer Frances Macdonald. LINES OPEN from 1.30pm

Magician and reporter Hugh Levinson goes behind the scenes at the world's oldest magic shop - Davenports in central London - and meets the family who have run this Aladdin's cave of wizardry for over a century. Producer Hugh Levinson

The story of our present century. Narrated by Anna Massey , with additional readings by Robert Powell and Patience Tomlinson. 81: 1988-
Another Thatcher Victory and Cabinet Divisions Producer Pete Atkin

Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm

Jenni Murray and guests take a global view of news, traditions and human stories. Producer Paul Bajoria

With Chris Lowe and Eddie Mair

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Linda Smith and Graham Norton for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Newcastle city hall as part of the Newcastle Comedy Festival.
Producer Chris Neill. Repeated Boxing Day 12 noon

Sid forgets himself. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson meets award-winning conductor Paul McCreesh, who has just recorded Christmas music by the often overlooked 17th-century German composer Heinrich Schutz.

by Amanda Foreman , dramatised in 15 parts by Jennifer Curry.
6: Queen Bess, 1778.
From exile in Italy, Georgiana looks back on the war with France and on infidelities and infertility in her own unhappy marriage.
With David Timson, Sean Baker, Tim Treloar, Fiona Clarke, Elizabeth Bell, Gavin Muir, Christopher Ketham and Tom George.
Directors Cherry Cookson and Janet Whitaker.
Repeated from 10.45am

Jenny Cuffe presents the last in the series comparing public services in Britain and Europe. Growing Old. Hanover's senior citizens enjoy a well funded, nationally administered system of care. In Bristol, like the restofthe United Kingdom, what you get depends on your postcode. But the German government is now introducing radical reforms, many of which ape what happened in the U K Over a decade ago. Producer Jane Beresford

Dilly Barlow visits the Manor, an ancient house deep in the fens of East Anglia, home to Lucy M
Boston and the setting of her prize-winning Green Knowe series. Producer Rebecca Moore

Dreaming of Whales
2: Southern Right Whales in South Africa.
Mark Carwardine describes and explainsthe spectacle of the whales gathering in the bay at Hermanus. Producer Sarah Blunt

Shortened repeat of 9am

With Anne MacKenzie.

Richard Briers reads Dulce Domum from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall

Shortened repeat from Saturday 9am

Magnus Mills's novel takes us to a village in the Lakes, where a man and his oil drums present a dangerous obsession. Abridged in nine parts by Neville Teller , read by Nick Mercer. Part 1. Producer Duncan Minshull