with the Early Show
News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's newspapers.

Helen Shapiro chooses a favourite Christmas reading.

with news, travel, weather and the greatest hits of all time.

with Rev John Rackley.

with dedications and requests.
Including at 10.00 Pick of the Hits

talking with the people who make the news.

brings you up to date with events in the world of entertainment.

with two contestants on the general knowledge
Accumulator Quiz and Where Are You Now? Plus regular travel updates.

including the Mystery Voice competition.

with Folk on 2 In an extended edition, Jim looks back at some of the highlights of Folk on Two in 1993, including Peter, Paul and Mary; Luke Daniels at the Philadelphia Folk
Festival; Altan at Catalonia:
Nancy Kerr and Eliza Carthy ; National Music
Day; and Barbara Dickson. Plus the pick of the year's folk records.
Producer Jane Ward

That ubiquitous, rambling, folk-singing raconteur and bon viveur Mike Harding is back with some more of the strange, peculiar and exciting sounds that he has encountered on his travels around the globe. This week: Africa and Greenland

First of six programmes in which Anita Bhalla , BBC Midlands Community
Affairs correspondent, talks to prominent British Asians about their lives, careers and favourite music.
This week: Labour MP for
Leicester, Keith Vaz , who became Britian's first
Asian MP since the Second
World War.
Producer David Corser

The Organist Entertains Music, views and information from the popular organ and keyboard world.
No prizes, but you can also test your knowledge by answering some fun questions.

with Night Ride
Including at 1.30
Pause for Thought with Fr John McCullagh.

Including at 3.30
Pause for Thought with Fr John McCullagh.