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4 January 'The Saturday Play - His Dark Materials: Northern Lights'

'The Saturday Play - His Dark Materials: Northern Lights'

(BBC Radio 4, 1.30 to 5pm)

A three-part adapation of Philip Pullman's popular trilogy, 'His Dark Materials'. The first book, The Northern Lights, introduces listeners to 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, who lives in Oxford in a universe parallel to the one we know, where souls exist on the outside of the body. She soon discovers there are dark forces at work involving the disappearance of children.

5 January.

'The Food Programme'

(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)

In the wake of festive excess, Sheila Dillon investigates the idea of 'everything in moderation' and asks if this is the most sensible way to approach the matter of what people eat and drink.

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