with the best of seasonal sounds.
with requests and dedications.
(Details as New Year's Eve at 2.00pm)
Champagne is the order of the day! Gerald goes to France to visit the people behind the celebration drink. Producer ROGER BOWMAN
... or The Newsreaders Strike Back
(Details as Radio 4 at 1.10pm)
celebrates 60 years as an entertainer, in conversation with Bob Sinfield.
Producer GRAHAM PASS
David Snell conducts the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMALIN. BBC Radio Strings conducted by Duncan Lamont.
Singer Norma Winstone With Martin Taylor (guitarist)
Producer RAY HARVEY
Russell Davies calls up the ghost of Christmas past through the medium of Housewives' Choice.
Golden festive hits requested during the programme's early years are linked with jolly reflections on how
Christmas changed from the depths of rationing to the beginnings of plenty.
Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE (R)
Michael Fenton-Stevens Denise Coffey
Jon Glover , John Grieve and Leni Harper join forces to prop up their crumbling Highland inheritance.
Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL. GED PARSONS Producer neil CARGILL
The antidote to panel games. Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. With
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willy Rushton. Pianist Colin Sell.
Producer Paul Spencer (R)
presents
Hits of the Decade
Tonight wee Ken gets to stay up late for this spectacular of chart-toppers from the 80s - a ten-year pop-pickers' guide to the very best in Radio 2 music.
Producer GEOFF MULUN
presents Nightride
The Early Show eases your way from night to day.
Producers COLIN CHANDLER and GRAHAM PASS