With the Rt Rev Mark Santer , Bishop of Birmingham.
Year of the Black Sheep. Miriam O'Reilly investigates this year's foot-and-mouth crisis.
With Alan Little and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
A discussion on the history of what we eat from the Renaissance to the present day. Joining Melvyn Bragg to engorge themselves on the fashions and philosophies of 500 years of food will be the historians Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Rebecca Spang and Theodore Zelden. Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of food in Modern Europe, a cultural as well as a culinary story. Show more
Martha Kearney delves into the history of that great British dessert-trifle. Drama: Ladies ofLetters Make Mincemeat, part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
India. India is proud to be the largest democracy in the world. Yet at the grassroots level corruption is endemic. Rosie Goldsmith meets the activists who are taking on - and beating- corrupt public officials. Also, Barefoot College, where students without formal qualifications learn howto construct solar energy systems, and the man who is bringing the internet to the street children of Delhi. Producer Tim Mansel. Editor Maria Balinska Repeated New Year's Eve 8.30pm
The first of a new seven-part series in which guests select theirfavourite pieces of prose and poetry. Today, the international fashion designer Zandra Rhodes explains her choices.
Producer Viv Beeby. Repeated Sunday 30 December 12.15am
With Liz Barclay and Peter White.
With Sheena McDonald.
Extended rptfrom Saturday 22 December6.10am
Repeated from Boxing Day 7pm
By Martin Sorrell.
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, it is the two older Bennet daughters who are centre stage. But now the third daughter, Mary, emerges from their shadow with a very different version of events in her journal.
(R)
An appeal for a national charity which works with and for grandparents and grandchildren.
Producer Laurence Grissell. DONATIONS: Grandparents Federation, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated from Sunday 23 December 7.55am
Dr Albert Ellis is one of the founding fathers of modern therapy. In this programme John Waite visits 85-year-old Dr Ellis at the impressive
Manhattan headquarters of the Albert Ellis Institute to find out whether the man some dismiss as "the geriatric guru" really does have the solutions to life, the universe and everything in-between. Producer Sue Mitchell.
3: The Episode of the Reluctant Prosecutor.By Grant Allen , performed by Martin Jarvis. Will the colonel face his accuser in court? For details see Christmas Day
Repeated from Sunday 23 December 4pm
Science series. Quentin Cooper talks to
John Dennis and Paul Brereton from the Central Science
Laboratory about howthey are using advanced scientific technologies to crack down on a continental cheese conspiracy. Does our farmhouse Cheddar really come from the West
Country as it purports on the label? And how can we be sure that the wine we are sipping contains the grape varieties they say it does?
Producer Fiona Roberts. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk
With Eddie Mair and Nigel Wrench.
The second of three talks this week by Fergal Keane examining the state of the world in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York on 11 September. 2: Is a more peaceful future achievable? Repeated 12.15am
A new four-part series offering a night out at a comedy club without having to leave one's armchair. Simon Bligh hosts half an hour of stand-up comedy featuring Luke Ponte , Mitch Benn and Ian Moore. Producer Helen Williams
Leon ie has news for Robert. Rptd Friday 28 December 2pm
4: Irene encourages Vera's Children to vent their feelings in verse, and drama turns to crisis.
For details see Christmas Eve. Repeated from 10.45am
After the Second World War hundreds of British women went to live in Czechoslovakia, newly married to Czechs and Slovaks who had fought with Britain against Nazism. Some of the few women still living there tell Chris Bowlby how they survived Stalinist persecution and isolation behind the Iron Curtain.
Although America is in recession, Treasury forecasts still say the British economy will continue to grow in 2002. Should we believe them, and if so is it just a lucky break?
Ian Hargreaves asks if Britain has really learned how to avoid boom and bust and examines the evidence of new, underlying strength in the economy.
(Repeated Sunday 30 December 9.30pm)
2: Space Waste. Since space travel began in 1957, the extra-terrestrial wilderness has gradually been polluted with man-made debris from spacecraft manoeuvres and accidents. Is it too late to prevent us from doing to space what we've already done to earth? Tom Feilden investigates. Producer Karen Gregor
With Brian Hanrahan.
By Raymond Chandler. 4: Curtains forBrody. For details see Christmas Eve
Niall Ashdown and Luke Sorba star in a sitcom about the human condition, sex and food. With Stella Duffy , Victoria Finneyand Lee Simpson. Producer Bill Dare
Four programmes celebrating the art of the lyricist. Seen Better Days but I'm Putting Up with These Elaine Delmar looks at the words of the blues. Pianist Michael Haslam. Producer Enyd Williams (R)
Repeated from 6.15pm
(Repeated from 9.45am)
