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Epiphanies. Mark Tully considers the experience and understanding of epiphanies: those intense moments of revelation when supernatural or divine reality becomes manifest in the physical world.
Producer Beverley McAinsh. Repeated at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Producer:
Beverley McAinsh.

Rabbi Lionel Blue appeals on behalf of a charity which funds research into the causes and prevention of epilepsy.
Producer Laurence Grissell. DONATIONS: Epilepsy Research Foundation, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS:
Freephone [number removed]. Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Blue
Producer:
Laurence Grissell.

Choral Mattins on the Feast of the Epiphany from the Chapel Royal, St James Palace. Organist, choirmaster and composer at Her Majesty s
Chapels Royal: Dr Andrew Gant. Preacher, the Rt
Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. Ledbythe Sub-Dean Prebendary Willie Booth.
Producer Stephen Shipley. E-MAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Organist:
St James Palace.
Unknown:
Dr Andrew Gant.
Producer:
Stephen Shipley.

Feted by celebrities as the latest must-have medicine, what are the real roots of the Ayurvedic diet?
Simon Parkes travels to India to find out, and Sheila Dillon asks whether the Western version can ever compare to the real thing.
(Extended rpt Monday 4pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Parkes
Unknown:
Sheila Dillon
Producer:
Rebecca Wells

Another chance to hear this documentary about the torn, muddied remains of a diary found by Christopher Morris in a Sussex ditch. Intrigued, he reassembled the pieces and discovered the daily account of a young British woman who was trapped in Vichy, France, in 1944.

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Morris
Producer:
Iwan Russel Jones

Nigel Colborn , John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew answerquestions posed by gardeners from the East
Riding of Yorkshire. And a report from the Gardener s Question Time garden, where Roy Lancaster , Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood have been planting trees and selecting designs forthe fruit cage. Chaired by Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Colborn
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor.

Lars Tharp puts antiques and collectibles into their context. 2: The ShakerChair. A design icon and a hymn to simplicity that continues to influence contemporary style two centuries after it was perfected by the Puritan Shaker Sect. Producer Lindsay Leonard

Contributors

Unknown:
Lars Tharp
Producer:
Lindsay Leonard

John Steinbeck 's harrowing novel about a family driven from their Oklahoma farm during the dust bowl days of the thirties, dramatised in three parts by Steve Chambers. 2: The Journey West. Shaken by the death of Grampa, the Joads continue their journey West from Oklahoma to California - but as resistance towards the "Okies" grows.Tom is in danger of being provoked into breaking his parole.
Director Marion Nancarrow. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Steinbeck
Unknown:
Steve Chambers.
Director:
Marion Nancarrow.
Tom:
John Schwab
Granpa:
Garrick Hagon
Ma:
Pat Starr
Casy:
Bob Sherman
Pa:
William Roberts
Rasasharn:
Teresa Gallagher
Ruthie:
Teresa Gallagher
Al:
Ryan McClusky
Uncle John:
Bill Bailey
Granma:
Liza Ross
Connie:
Martin Sherman
Winfield:
Martin Sherman
Willy:
Eric Loren
Noah:
Eric Loren
Wilson:
John Guerrasio
Sairy:
Debora Weston
Cop:
Stuart Milligan
owner:
Stuart Milligan

James Naughtie and a group of readers meet Edinburgh crime writer Ian Rankin in Inspector Rebus's favourite bar to talk about two of his novels: Knots and Crosses and The Falls. Repeated Thursday 4pm.
February's Bookclub: Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard.
March's Bookclub: Music and Silence by Rose Tremain.

Contributors

Presenter:
James Naughtie
Guest:
Ian Rankin
Producer:
Karen Holden

Frank Delaney presents winter poems including
Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, AA Milne's Sneezles and Vernon Scannell reading his Cold Spell. Plus, to mark her recent death, archive recordings of Pamela Gillilan reading Four Years and Harvest.
Producer Geni Hall-Kenny . Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Pamela Gillilan
Producer:
Geni Hall-Kenny

In the first of a four-part series the former BBC Hong Kong and Far East correspondent Anthony Lawrence looks back at his career. How accurate were the forecasts he made when he first went to the Far East in 1956? Producer Liz Barclay. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence
Producer:
Liz Barclay.

This week, Matt Smith presents some unusual New Year resolutions, jokes and competitions.
Nigel Anthony reads the first of fourcreation stories by Ted Hughes. E-MAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk.
Producer Jo Daykin. Series producer Olivia Seligman

Contributors

Unknown:
Matt Smith
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Stories By:
Ted Hughes.
Producer:
Jo Daykin.
Producer:
Olivia Seligman

Anna Massey narrates Christopher Lee 's history of Britain. The reader is Robert Powell. Episode 34:
1949. The Republic of Ireland, the farthing and Nato. Producer Pete Atkin. Revised repeat
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on a series of individual audio cassettes and compact discs, as well as superb box sets. Two books to accompany the series have been published by BBC Books, www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Unknown:
Robert Powell.
Producer:
Pete Atkin.

Andrew Rawnsley sizes up the political year ahead. Including at 10.45 Fireside Chat Michael White concludes his examination ofPMs and presidents and their relationship with the wireless. Editor John Evans.
Fireside Chat: Producer Dave Bachelor. Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
Michael White
Editor:
John Evans.
Producer:
Dave Bachelor.

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