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7.45 Down to Earth with Alan Titchmarsh
For the second year running, listeners have been invited to vote for their favourite record from the 1960s.
Today Simon Dee keeps an eye on the proceedings as he plays the Sounds of the 60s Listeners'Top 20.
Tomorrow's another day, so put your feet up and relax. This may be your last chance!
(Details on Holiday Tuesday at 10.30pm)
Cosmotheka bring back to life that magic era when Harry Champion, Vesta Tilley and Gus Elen trod the boards. Producer JOHN LEONARD BBC Manchester
Brian Blessed and his wife
Hildegard Neil invite you to a celebration of Christmas, live from their home.
Join their family and friends for poetry and readings, the odd carol and a stockingful of Christmas music.
Producer ANTHONY CHERRY
with Gloria Hunniford and Alan Titchmarsh.
Last summer, Gloria and Alan set out on a tour of discovery around the British Isles to find some of Great Britain's best-loved stately homes and gardens for the series A House in a Garden.
Along the way they visited Leeds Castle in Kent,
Castle Howard in Yorkshire, Powis Castle in Wales and Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland. As Gloria and Alan reminisce in front of a warm log fire, the memories of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer flood back. Producers
COUN MARTIN and NEIL GEORGE
'Sport without morality is no sport at all.'
The problem of drug abuse cast a shadow over the Olympics, but how much did it damage the credibility of sport in general and the Games in particular?
On the domestic front, Britain's golfers proved themselves to be among the best in the world, while for British footballers and cricketers it was nearly all gloom and doom. And how will posterity assess Mike Tyson's year, as spectacular out oftheringasinit?
Ian Darke looks back over
12 months that were never short of incident or controversy. Producer JOANNE WATSON
More musical teasers with Keith Fordyce.
The Huddersfield Choral Society's annual seasonal concert, recorded at the Huddersfield Town Hall. The 300 voices of the Huddersfield Choral Society and Youth Choir present festive songs and carols from all ages.
Brian Kay conducts the massed vocal forces and the BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDAY in a mixture of the old and not-so-old, along with chorales, a couple of sleigh rides, a spiritual or two and a chorus from Handel's Messiah.
Roderick Elms is the organ soloist in Garth Edmundson 's Toccata Prelude on the Christmas hymn Vom Himmel
Hoch, while the New Cambridge Buskers contribute their own brand of seasonal entertainment.
Presented by John Dunn. Producer TIM MCDONALD (Given in association with Readicut International pic)
A seasonal serenade with the Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMALIN conducted by Neil Richardson. Presented by Bill Rennells.
Join the Yetties. along with the Sherborne Town Band, as they entertain you and their numerous friends at Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset.
Pour yourself something satisfying and sit back as the revelry begins with songs and stories for a winter evening. Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol
By the light of hundreds of candles, in the medieval splendour of York Minster, the Chapter House Choir sing carols for Christmas Eve.
Conducted by Andrew Padmore. Producer NICK CLARKE BBC North East
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