With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark explores rural life across the UK. Producer Benjamin Chesterton Open Country Christmas Special is on Christmas Day at 7.05am
With Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Sarah Swadling
Sri Lanka v England
The Third Test at Colombo. Commentary on the third day's play by Jonathan Agnew , John Murray ,
Jonny Saunders and Roshan Abbeysinghe. Including News at 6.30am.
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With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Rob Marshall.
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life.
(Repeated on Monday 22 December at 11pm)
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The adventures, frustrations and joys oftravel are explored by wanderlust presenter Sandi Toksvig. Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uK
3: 1999. The year of the solar eclipse, Posh and Becks on theirthrones and the new millennium, But was marriage itself entering a new era? Couples wno married in 1999 discuss sexuality, tiaras and what marriage meant at the turn of the century. Producer Sara Conkey
Peter Riddell of The Times looks back at the political highlights Of the week. Editor Marie Jessel
A selection of seasonal insight and colourfrom BBC correspondents around the world. Producer Tony Grant
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Penny Hasiam Repeated tomorrow at 9pm
A merry look at the week's news from
Simon Hoggart , with Alan Coren , Francis Wheen , Fred MacAulay and a special guest. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Petersfield, Hampshire, puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes
Labour peer Lord Hattersley. Repeated from yesterday
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions. PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Peter Griffiths
By Michael Crompton , adapted for radio by Molly Lefebure. A new episode starring Emily Bruni and Kevin Whately.
5: The Horsham Trunk Murder.In last week s episode, Hardcastle was the victim of a bomb blast and lay inert underthe debris in a London stret. How will Molly survive without him?
Director John Dove
Mark Whitaker joins a six-week archaeological dig in a garden in Mellor, Cheshire. For the past six years a team of professional and amateur archaeologists have dug around the rhododendrons and vegetable patches in an attempt to discover the garden's history. This year they found Roman jewellery, Mesolithic flints and more. The hilltop garden may hold the clues to ancient habitation stretching back thousands of years.
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Natasha Maw EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
News and sports headlines, presented by Carolyn Quinn. Editor Peter Rippon
What are the best films to look out forthis
Christmas? Jim White presents a roundup of films for the festive season on both the big and small screens as well as the week's new releases, including Cold Mountain, an American Civil War epic directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Producer Anne-Marie Cole
Ned Sherrin presents another mix of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Mairi Russell
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Fiona McLean
Another programme in a series of stories from NHS workers offers two differing perspectives on transplant surgery. A theatre technician tells of the first time he was involved in ending the life of a patient during an operation, and a transplant nurse speaks of a kidney transplant recipient whose kidney was retransplanted after his sudden death, a first in UK medical history. (Repeated from Sunday)
"He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy! Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway presents a searching and thought-provoking analysis of the contentious relationship between religion and comedy. ProducerPennie Latin
Rosamund Lehmann 's account of an illicit love affair continues the story of Olivia, whose rite of passage into adulthood was described in Invitation to the Waltz. Now living a faintly bohemian life in London of the early 1930s, Olivia meets up again with Rollo, the handsome and unhappily married son of Lord and Lady Spencer, and falls prey once more to his charm and confidence. Dramatised by Hattie Navlor.
With Paul Dodgson. Joshua Boyden and Olivia Crook. Producer Sara Davies
Michael Buerk chairs another debate in which Ian Hargreaves , Steven Rose , Michael Gove and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses with conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's headlines. Repeated from Wednesday
London meet the West Midlands in the latest contest in the quest for the general knowledge quiz team of the year. Hosted by Peter Snow. Repeated from Monday
The British Haiku Society. Judith Palmer visits the British Haiku Society in Preston to explore an ancient Japanese verse form. Repeated from Sunday
4: Nauscopy by Robert Dodds , read by Michael Perceval-Maxwell . In an isolated house by a barren, sun-beaten shore a man waits with his family. Far out to sea, something is approaching. Producer David Jackson Young
Sri Lanka v England
The Third Test at Colombo. Commentary on the fourth day's play.
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