With Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O 'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster.
With AlistairCooke.Rptd from Fri
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife of the British countryside.
Producer Brian King Extended repeat on Boxing Day at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Hugh O'Donnell
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.
John Peel takes a look at the foibles of family life.
Producer Abiola Awojobi Repeated on Monday 23 December at 11pm PHONE: [number removed] Email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Arthur Smith presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales.
PHONE: [number removed] Email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uk
In 1967, as Haight Ashbury collapsed underthe weight of incomers in search of hippie heaven, Britain's own love generation was taking shape. With Robert Sandall. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith
Peter Riddell of The Times presents a roundup of the year. Editor Peter Mulligan
Seasonal insight from BBC correspondents around the world. Producer TonyGrant
Paul Lewis with impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
Atongue-in-cheek review of the week's news, brought to you by Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Simon Hoggart , Alexei Sayle and Linda Smith.
Producer Simon Nicholls
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 Elkin, former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, and Lord McNally, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Lords.
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions. PHONE: [number removed] or email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
Producer Victoria Wakely
By Brian Sibley.
A fascinating journey into the childhood of one of the world's best-loved writers, CS Lewis. As Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer guides us through the writer's early life to illustrate how his boyhood in County Down, Northern Ireland, inspired the magical stories of Narnia.
Mark Tully explores how three of the world's great religions have developed their festivals of light to reflectthe real conditions, in northerly latitudes, of the darkest hour of the year. He talks to a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew and a pagan, and to a chronobiologist and a neuroscientist, about the fundamental human need for light and, surprisingly, for darkness. ProducerBeaty Rubens
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor/producer Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Dan Damon.
Joe Cornish and a panel of experts discuss their Cinematic guilty pleasures. Producer Stephen Hughes
Ned Sherrin plunges his guests headfirst into a festive stew of panto, mince pies and tinsel. ProducerTorquil Macleod
The luxury liner SS American is heading for England, as the National Theatre takes its first foray into the "golden age" of American musical comedy of the 1930s with Anything Goes, directed by Trevor Nunn. With music and lyrics by Cole Porter , the score is filled with such classics as I Get a Kick Out of You and You 're the Top. Tom Sutcliffe and guests give their verdict. Producer Mohini Patel
The last in the series in which writers who have published memoirs compose and read a letterto themselves when young. This week Michael Holroyd looks back 50 years and addresses himself as a dreamyyoung man. Producer Erin Riley
The film historian John Huntley provides a guided tour of his remarkable film archive. A genuine treasure trove, the archive contains material from over 100 years of film-making, from rare early footage to some of the best-known British films of the past 50 years. John Huntley also reflects on his own career in film, beginning in 1939, when he was employed as a teaboy at Denham Studios under Alexander Korda.
By Mark Twain. Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. This BBC/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation co-production follows Huck and Jim, the runaway slave, on their harrowing and hilarious journey by rafi down the Mississippi in pre-Civil War America. Twain's wise and affectionate writing remains controversial, as he gives voice to Huck's growing understanding o Jim's humanity. This programme contains language that listeners may find offensive. Part 1.
Other parts played by Glenn Bang. Mark Caven and Roy Lewis
Music composed by John Roby and performed by Roman Borys. Carlos Del Junco. Anne Lederman. John Roby and Don Rooke Director Ned Chaillet
Michael Buerk chairs another live debate. Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves , Melanie Phillips and Stephen Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views on one of the week's news stories. Producer David Coomes
The nationwide general knowledge contest features the highest scoring runners-up. The chairman is Robert Robinson.
One hundred years after the composition of the epic gold-rush ballad, The ShootingofDan McGrew ,
Stewart Henderson explores the poem's impact and discusses the story of its author, Robert W Service. Producer Joanne Coombs
Written and read in ten parts by Alan Bennett.
With customary wryness, Alan Bennett reminisces about growing up in Leeds. 10: No Mean City Music by George Fenton Producer Mary Kalemkerian
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