Sunday 26 December - Boxing Day
Sunday Worship
8.10-8.50am
The Very Reverend Jeffrey John leads his first broadcast sermon since
his appointment as the Dean of St Albans.
In a service celebrating St Stephen's Day from the Cathedral and Abbey
Church of St Alban, Hertfordshire, Dean John examines the lives of the
first Christian martyrs.
The Abbey Girls' Choir sings excerpts from Britten's A Ceremony of Carols,
directed by Simon Johnson.
Producer/Simon Vivian
BBC Manchester Publicity
The Reunion
1/1 9.15-10.00am
Sue MacGregor re-unites a group of women whose looks
and faces defined the 1960s.
Icons of their age, the likes of Twiggy, Jean
Shrimpton, Anoushka Hempel and Joanna
Lumley turned heads wherever they went and were invited to all
the great gatherings of the period mixing with members of the aristocracy
as well as the stars of the rock and fashion worlds.
From the opening of Biba to famous Vogue shoots, the Rolling Stones in
Hyde Park and endless parties on the Kings Road, they recall those heady
days and reflect on where they have travelled since.
Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/David Prest
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Food Quiz Special
1/1 12.30-1.00pm
Guests including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Clarissa
Dickson Wright and the doyenne of wine writers Jancis
Robinson are grilled by food critic Jay Rayner
in a series of rounds designed to test their food and drink knowledge.
With true or false questions, blind tastings and quick-fire rounds on
food history and culture, this quiz will determine which food experts
know their onions and shake the listeners' thirst for surprising food
facts.
Presenter/Jay Rayner, Producer/Dixi Stewart
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
People's Day
1/1 8.00-11.00pm
People's Day - to include 8.15-10.15pm People's D-Day and 10.15-11.00pm
D-Day Loose Ends
People's D-Day (repeat)
8.15-10.15pm
This is a second chance to hear the acclaimed programme of memories and
stories presented by Libby Purves, first broadcast earlier
this year to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Drawing on the responses of hundreds of people who were there and remember
D-Day as if it were yesterday, The People's D-Day is a recreation of that
strange, breath-holding moment when the future of the world literally
would be determined by the secrecy and perfectly choreographed labours
of thousands of men and women across the whole of the UK.
Libby travels to Southampton to chart the build-up to the invasion of
Normandy as seen from the homes and harbours of Britain.
She hears what it was like to live within the coastal exclusion zone
as thousands of tons of material - ammunition, vehicles and craft of all
descriptions - were assembled ready for the word to go.
Woven through the programme are individual stories like the squaddie
arrested for having a top secret word, actually his name, stencilled on
his kit bag; of the BBC engineer locked in his studio with Eisenhower's
announcement that D-Day had begun; of the hospitals cleared and nurses
summoned to prepare for the thousands of expected casualties.
Presenter/Libby Purves, Producer/Simon Elmes
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
D-Day Loose Ends (repeat)
10.15-11.00pm
In a repeat of a special Loose Ends, to commemorate the 60th anniversary
of D-Day earlier this year, Ned Sherrin looks back at
the music, comedy and radio shows of that era.
To help him reminisce, he is joined by troupers from that period: Ken
Dodd, Roy Hudd, Sheila Tracy
and Anthony Horowitz.
Music comes from the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Amy
Winehouse.
Producer/Simon Elmes
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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