with Fr Kevin O'Neill
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
A. N. Wilson talks with Rosemary Hartill.
Producer DAVID COOMES (R)
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
(4)
Voices for Our Times Four places that made the headlines over the past ten years: what will their people now look forward to and reflect on? Cueballs leisure centre cultivates the Glaswegian body beautiful; Derry City FC scores for consensus; fall-out-affected farmers from Pentrefoelas count becquerels; and the car workers of Wearside make it with the Japanese.
Producers FRANCES BURNS FIONA COUPER. SIMON ELMES and CAROLINE SARLL. Stereo
Four views of the last decade....
1: A Real Countrywoman by DEBORAH MOGGACH. Read by Elizabeth Mansfield. Producer MARIA VIGAR (R)
from the Salvation Army Citadel, Blackpool led by Canon Noel Vincent With the BLACKPOOL
CITADEL SONGSTERS led by ROY POWERS.
All creatures of our God and King; Luke 2, vv
15-24; Keep on believing; Made in the likeness of God.
BBC Manchester Stereo
(Details as New Year's Eve at 5.00pm)
with Sunon Rae.
Readers ELEANOR BRON and STEPHEN THORNE. Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol Stereo
Malcolm Stacey and Margaret Collins present a light-hearted look at the influence social class still plays in our lives. Producer DAVID BERRY Editor KEN VASS
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race. Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
with James Naughtie
The winning stories from the 1989 Listening Corner story competition, read by Tony Robinson. Today's story: Beatrice, the Penguin Who Couldn't Get Her Feet Wet by DIANA WEBB. Producer DAVID IAN NEVILLE
In a special programme to launch the new decade, Jenni Murray meets people who are facing fresh starts or new challenges in the 1990s. On the same subject, today's story is The Swain by MARY LELAND read by Kate Binchy. Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
by KRISTA HANRATTY. With Angela Thorne as Helen and Martin Jarvis as Ben.
Helen revisits her honeymoon hotel. There she meets Ben ...
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS (R)
Stradivari's Secret Modern musical instrument makers still cannot equal the tone that Stradivari produced for his violins 250 years ago. John Amis talks to violinists Salvatore Accardo and Nigel Kennedy , cellist Robert Cohen and scientist Dr Colin Gough , and samples some 17 Strads. Producer PHILIP JORDAN Stereo (R)
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Simpson
From his collection of broadcasting blunders, Jonathan Hewat looks at how radio presenters present themselves when things go wrong. Producer ARMANDO IANNUCCI Stereo (R)
Stereo (Details Sat 12.25pm)
Regina v Penguin Books Ltd
Compiled by JACK EMERY from the original transcript, presented by Helena Kennedy.
20 October 1960, the Old Bailey: the start of one of the most controversial trials of the English legal system.
Was D. H. Lawrence 's
Lady Chatterley Lover just a dirty book or was it literature?
With comments from the current DPP, Allan Green and Lord Hutchinson.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo
•See panel opposite
with Richard Kershaw Stereo
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE abridged for radio in 15 episodes by ALAN ENGLAND.
Read by Ian Hogg (1) Producer PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill
by PETER TINNISWOOD. The first of six parts. With and A Tweak of the Thread Because of Father's health, the family has to move back to London.
What is going to happen to Winston, village poacher, philosopher and Romeo? Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Details as Saturday 2.00pm)