Listings
: Today
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe6.30, 7.30, 18.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with JOHN RAWLING
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
: Christmas with the Savages
Part 4 (R): News
: Face the Facts
A special edition in which John Waite looks back over a year of investigations on Radio 4 and brings you up to date with what's happened since.Contributors
: One Big Kitchen Table
An Italia prize-winning snack at the 'Famous Delicatessen,Philadelphia. pickled and shredded by Roberta Berke with the voices of Sam, Lilian and David Auspitz , their customers and helpers
A gem of a montage documentary
THE LISTENER
Recorded by ROGER DOWUNG Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo (R)
Contributors
: The Natural History Programme
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm report on the wildlife scene and discover, some very unlikely predators \sheep and deer which eat seabird chicks! Producer JOHN HARRISONBBC Bristol
Contributors
: An Act of Worship
Stereo: Citizens
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday): Family Footsteps
Jackie Stewart is helping his son Paul launch his career in the dangerous and exciting world of motor sport, but what does the future hold? In the first of six chats with sporting families, Gerald Williams talks to father and son about sporting influences and whether the urge to succeed is in the blood. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOTContributors
: First Person
New broadcasters with stories to tell and opinions to air.This week Linda Stapley on how to make the best of being a failed mum.
Contributors
: Fat Man in Italy
Tom Vernon pedals from the Alps to the Mezzogiorno in the summer of 1980. 2: The Olive, the Crossbow and the Caterpillar. Stereo (R) (Part 3 next Wednesday)Contributors
: Listening Corner
John Dowie reads Growing and Knowing. Stereo (R)Contributors
: Woman's Hour
Is there sex after 70? Very much so, according to the couples who talk to Karen Deco about their emotional and physical lives. Serial: The Skin Chairs (4) Presenter Jenni MurraryContributors
: A 40-Year-Old Man
by SHUSAKU ENDO dramatised by PENNY LEICESTER from the translation by VAN C. GESSEL. WithSuguro, a Catholic, lies in a hospital bed awaiting his third serious operation on the eve of his 40th birthday. Even if he survives, he is not sure that his marriage will.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)
Contributors
: News
: Bookshelf
This week Nigel Forde offers a slice of England, with an anthology of writing edited by Richard Ingrams.Professor John Honey asks 'Does accent matter?'
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Contributors
: Kaleidoscope
(Revised repeat of yesterday s programme at 9. 45pm): PM
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
Contributors
: The Six O'Clock News
including Financial Report: News
: The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm): Serenade to Music
In October 1938, to celebrate his jubilee as a conductor, SirHenry Wood conducted the first performance of a work specially written for the occasion by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The piece was Serenade to Music. Fifty years on, John Steane looks back to that famous premiere and examines how
Vaughan Williams tailored the 16 vocal parts to the voices who sang them. With contributions from the three surviving original soloists,
Dame Eva Turner , Mary Jarred and Roy Henderson , the composer's widow
Ursula Vaughan Williams and the voices of Sir Henry Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Producer ANDREW LYLE. Stereo
Contributors
: The Idea of Europe
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am): The Family Firm
A series of six programmes.1: H.P. Bulmer - Cider-Makers of Hereford
The Rev Charles Bulmer made cider from the apples in his rectory orchard. One hundred years ago, his son Percy turned the hobby into a business.
Now his grandson Esmond is chairman of a multi-million pound company.
Marjorie Lofthouse tells the story of the Hereford cider giants. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill
Contributors
: Does He Take Sugar?
OrcadiaOrganising an efficient network of services for people with handicaps is difficult enough, but how is it managed on an archipelago of 60 islands? Lyn ten Kate shares her conclusions in a special programme from the Orkney Isles.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Contributors
: Kaleidoscope
Jeremy Irons plays a pair of twin gynaecologists in Canadian film director David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers.Shock has been the hallmark of Cronenberg's recent films such as Scanners and The Fly. This one is less shocking, he thinks ... but Natalie Wheen has her point of view.
Producer us EDWARDS
Contributors
: A Book at Bedtime
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (14): Room to Listen, Room to Talk
Presented by Dr Tony Lake 3: A Good-Enough Therapist (R) revisedContributors
: 'amNews
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