With Kevin Franz.
With Miriam O'Reilly. ProducerClare Phillips
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Lavinia Byrne.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Martha Kearney.
10.45 Penelope's Experience in Scotland
Part 5. SerieseditorJillBurridge Drama repeated at 7.45pm
At St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield, people who have lost a loved one can buy a light and name it for the person who has died. The lights are then hung through trees in the quiet hospice grounds throughout December. As they face Christmas after their bereavement they talk to Jane Shepherd about What their light means to them.
Dealing with bereavement: page 38
Bed and breakfast for beginners. A new six-part comedy series by Sue Limb , set in the Abbeyfield
Guest House in Norwich. 2: Lame Ducks. How can Alison avoid a courtship display without hastily inventing a husband?
Producer Jonathan James-Moore
With Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson. EditorChnsBums
PHONE: [number removed] Email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk
With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh
Sleep Waves and Radio Waves. This week Emily Buchanan snoozes, cat naps and snores to radio from around the world and discovers the best of it to keep you awake. Producer Kirsten Lass Repeated Sunday 8pm
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
Simeon Stylites, preacher and healer, spent 30 years living on a pillar. Justin Butcher, writer of The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones, explores the exotic world of visions and miracles.
Vegetarian Christmas. Interactive greengrocers
Gregg Wallace and Charlie Hicks are joined by Sarah Brown , the doyenne of vegetarian cookery, who creates a delicious meat-free Christmas lunch and chats to listeners about festive fruit and veg. Producer Paula McGinley
5: The Terrible Troubadour. "In nature you mustgo very low to find things that go so high." For details see yesterday
5: Aliens Land on Earth. Sorry, sonny, I've run out of candy. For details see Monday
Michael Rosen returns with a new series of the programme about words and the way we speak.
The bauble was always going wide: the language of decorations and the evolving relationship between football commentary and tense.
(Repeated on Sun 8.30pm)
Jenni Murray and guests discuss how current media trends affect modern life.
Producer Cecile Wright
With Eddie Mair and Carolyn Quinn.
A tongue-in-cheek review of the week's news, brought to you by Simon Hoggart , Alan Coren , Linda Smith , Andy Hamilton and Alexei Sayle. Producer Simon Nicholls Repeated Saturday at 12.30pm
Party-time at Home Farm.
Written by Mary Cutler Director and editor Vanessa Whitburn ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to [address removed]
Francine Stock with the latest on the arts scene. Producer Aasiya Lodhi
5: Farewell Edina. "I won't deny the spell of Italy,
Francesca, but I think the spell that Scotland casts over one is quite a different thing...." For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the debate from the Old Market, Hove, East Sussex, with a panel including the minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Blackstone and Steven Norris, former Conservative minister and London mayoral candidate. They are joined by Elizabeth Filkin, former Parliamentary Commissionerfor Standards, and Lord McNally, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the House Of Lords.
Producer Victoria Wakely
With Alistair Cooke.
Rptd Sat at 5.45am and Sun at 8.45am
With Robin Lustig.
Editor Prue Keely EMAIL: world.tonigllt@bbc.co.uk
By Richard Rayner. Abridged by Lisa Osborne.
5: "He saw a pure white space, clean and spare and cool. " After the war, Esko retreats to the northern wilderness to build a church and heal his wounds. Fordetails see Monday
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Hugh Dennis takes a lighthearted look at the way family life has been portrayed in situation comedy from the 1940s onwards, featuring among others Ben and Bebe Lyon, The Liver Birds, Alf Garnett and The Clitheroe Kid.
of the Week: Michelangelo andAM the Pope's Ceiling
Part 5. Repeated from 9.45am
