With Miriam O'Reilly and Anna Hill.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Huw Spanner.
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week.
(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
Presented by Jenni Murray.
10.45 The Old Curiosity Shop Part 11. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
A view from the childhood sickbed -the isolation and intensity of being left alone with your thoughts. Doris spent a year in bed in the 1940s watching life happen silently on the other side of the window.
Simon didn't speak to any other children for almost two years and checked his pulse every morning to confirm that he was still alive. Gerald lay awake in the early hours waiting for the first blackbird to sing. Their reflections are set against Jodie's experiences now - a sparky nine-year-old with grace and perception, living through a childhood of hospital appointments. Producers Sara Conkey , Hugh Levinson , Lindsay Leonard and Stephen Douds
A series of six "two-handers" written by Lynne Truss , which humorously explores the premise that not only are there two sides to every story, but there are also differing sides to a personality. Each week we take a peek at a particular relationship and follow one of the protagonists forward to the next episode to see anothersideoftheircharacter. 1: The Friend Starring Claire Skinner and Phyllis Logan. Music by Rex Brough Producer Dawn Ellis
Planning a play with pasta: page 111
With Winifred Robinson and Peter White. The first of a week of reports on disability and employment is the story of an accountant with a visual impairment.
With Nick Clarke.
Nick Clarke hosts the second battle of lateral thinking and cross-cultural knowledge in the new series, between the Midlands team (Philippa Gregory and Rosalind Miles ) and defending champions Wales (Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead ). Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday at 11pm
By Dave Sheasby. Solicitor Kenneth Crowson tells a twisty tale involving the law, the media, a single mother, a hopeful couple and a little baby girl. Crowson Geoffrey Whitehead
Director David Hunter
Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal finance questions. Lines are open from
1.30pm. Phone [number removed]. Producer Jessica Dunbar
A week of stories by leading novelists , which reinvent biblical chapters from a contemporary perspective. 1: Genesis. By Kate Atkinson. Read by Joanna Tope. Producer Lu Kemp
Danny Danzigergoes behind the scenes at the museum as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.
1: Mummies, Myths and Magic Producer Felicity Goodall
Extended rpt of yesterday 12.30pm
Ernie Rea begins a new series of conversations with guests about the place of faith in today's world. Producer Liz Leonard
With Clare English and Carolyn Quinn.
Chairman Nicholas Parsons starts off the new series in Canterbury with panellists Paul Merton , Ross Noble , Linda Smith and Clement Freud. Producer Claire Jones Repeated Sunday
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A selection from this series is available on five volumes of audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Brian's banished to the caravan. Rptdtomorrowat2pm
Mark Lawson presents a review of Martin Scorsese 's new film Gangs of New York. Producer Nicki Paxman
By Charles Dickens. Dramatised in 25 episodes by Mike Walker. 11: Driven to find shelter in a storm, Nell's erandfatherfinds a place at the card table.
With Simon Donaldson and Luke Strain
Music by Melanie Pappenheim and Anne Wood
Producers/directors Jeremy Mortimer and Mary Peate Rpt of 10.45am BBC RADIO COLLECTION: The Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of The Old Curiosity Shop is available on audio cassette from 6 January 2003 at good retail outlets orwww.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Two years ago the Cornish playwright Nick Darke suffered a serious stroke and found himself struck virtually dumb. He knew what he wanted to say, but the saying was near impossible. In a remarkable audio diary, Nick charts his painful, painstaking and, at times, hilarious path to the full recovery of his dramatic VOice. Producer Simon Elmes
Afghanistan. Hekmatullah is 28 years old and recently qualified as a doctor in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. But there is no work for him here because the authorities can't afford to pay him and it looks increasingly likely that Jalalabad is going to fall back under the sway of the warlords who terrorised much of the country before the Taliban takeover. A yearon from the establishment of the Western-backed government in Kabul, Tim Whewell looks at what's changed in Afghanistan. Producer Tim Mansel
Repeated from Thursday 2 January Originally scheduled for broadcast Thursday 12 December and Monday 16 December 2002
Have golf courses gone from being viewed as "ecological villains" to truly "green" spaces providing habitats for wildlife and creating minimal environmental impact? In the first of a new series Mark Carwardine explores what measures are being taken by some golf courses and organisations to "green" the land given over to this sport.
Repeated from 9am
By Ian Fleming. Abridged in ten parts by Sally Marmion. Alex Jennings reads the first James Bond book. 6: Bond may have been victorious at the gamingtable, but his enemy is not out of the race yet. Producer DiSpeirs
Repeat of Saturday at 9am
the Unequalled Self Part 1. Repeated from 9.45am
