With Cardinal Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow.
Presented and produced by Charlotte Smith.
With Sue MacGregor and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Harvey Thomas.
From suffragettes to Greenham Common, courting to free love, Jenni Murray hosts a retrospective of the century using Woman's Hour archives and testimony from centenarians throughout Britain. Drama: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman. Final part. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
From Christmas Pie to Blow Up Nose, Radio 4 listeners provide curious place names and surnames for Dr Katie Lowe to investigate. Producer Sue Foster
By Noel Streatfeild. Pauline's career continues to flourish and she is now joined at auditions by the reluctant Petrova. Posy is offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
Final part. For details see Monday 27 December
With Liz Barclay and Trixie Rawlinson.
With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh
Frank Delaney quizzes a celebrity panel on language old and new, ampersands and Oxford commas and decides which words should go into the Dome for posterity. Producer Emma Kingsley. Rptd Tuesday 11.30pm
Repeated from yesterday 7pm
By Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott. Four actors, 20 one-act plays, 45 minutes. Inspired by themes of time, relationships, of millennial bells and of the ubiquity of numbers, each of these tiny plays starts with a scream and ends with bells, building into a pattern which reflects life as it is today-and how it might be tomorrow. Featuring the talents of Mel Giedroyc and Tony Gardner , with Rupert Degas and Rachel Preece.
Music by Wilfredo Acosta. Produced and directed by Dirk Maggs
Sick of the new millennium before it has even arrived? This programme addresses the real issues of the last millennium such as the whereabouts of the Blue Peter time capsule and the nature of its contents. Members of the public can put their essential questions to a panel of comedians. With Andrew Rawnsley, Bruce Morton, Kevin Hayes, Rob Brydon, Stuart Maconie and Tim McGarry.
Last in the series. 90: 2000-2,000 Years of Kinship. For details see Monday 27 December
By Kevin Hayes.
If you thought history was all in the past, think again! This programme presents a glimpse of what is to come. With Mark Steel, Laura Shavin, Kim Wall, Rachel Atkins and Kevin Hayes. Producer Kathy Smith
Written and presented by Simon De Deney.
Looking to the future with some key dignitaries, speakers and celebrities who have, over the past year, given their thoughts and opinions on the new millennium. Unfortunately the BBC equipment used for this broadcast was not year 2K compliant and we may have started the misery to a thousand years of countdown.... Producer Maria Esposito
With Steve Evans and Nigel Wrench. Editor Kevin Marsh
5: The Healing Zone. Including a cleansing of mind, body and spirit, and a few hints about getting your chakras in shape for the new millennium. Repeated from yesterday 12.15am
In the second of two programmes, Simon Hoggart invites Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy and Linda Smith to feast on a satirical selection box from the past 1,000 years. Repeated tomorrow 12 noon
Millennium....
Director Louise Gifford. For cast see Christmas Eve 7pm
New Beginnings. Mark Lawson investigates whether the way in which we consume the arts and how we decide what we want to consume will change beyond recognition in the next ten years. Producer Robert Ketteridge
By Amanda Foreman , dramatised by Jennifer Curry. Final part. The Final Triumph, 1800
For details see Monday 27 December. Repeated from 10.45am
New Beginnings. A service of reflection, thanksgiving and praise from Westminster Abbey, led by the Rev Angela Tilby and Father Gilbert Markus , chaplain at Strathclyde University.
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven; Drop, Drop, Slow Tears; It Came upon the Midnight Clear. With the choir of Westminster Abbey, acting organist and master of the choristers Martin Baker , and acting sub-organist Robert Quinney.
By Alistair Cooke. Insight, anecdote and history from the doyen of commentators. Repeated Sunday 8.45am
We tend to assume that art progresses and that the avant-garde work of today constitutes an inventiveness that is totally original. But a visit to one of the many caves decorated by Ice Age artists from around 20,000 years ago,shows that the idea of modern art predated not only this century but also this millennium. With Robert McNab.
Producers John Dryden and David Perry. Repeated tomorrow 11am
Jonathan Freedland explores the life and work of the great forward thinker Thomas More , and his Utopia. Recorded in More's cell in the Tower of London, with guests John Carey , Lisa Jardine , Sir Stephen Tumim and Steven Berkoff. Producer Virginia Crompton
Melanie Phillips and Roger Bolton present the legacy of 2,000 years of Christian history, uniquely viewed through letters from prominent figures of the present day and some of the major Christian thinkers, artists, mystics and politicians of the past. Producer Iwan Russell-Jones
As midnight approaches the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey leads a moment of prayer and preparation. Featuring the great 40-part motet by Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium - "I have never put my hope in any other but in you, God of Israel." Readers Fiona Shaw and Richard Briers.
The Archbishop of Canterbury: a Blessing
An audio experience which blends the inspirations of others - both familiar and unknown - to create a positive charge for our view of the future.
