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On 'All Things Considered' this week (Sunday 5 December at 9am, repeated on Thursday 9 December at 5.30am) Roy Jenkins' presents the annual book review programme.

Among the works to be discussed by the panel is a book which has scooped one of the year's major literary awards and we will endeavour to discover whether the Man Booker judges got it right....at least in the eyes of our distinguished panel.

On our behalf they have also been reading a pretty hefty tome about arguably the greatest Welshman of the twentieth century, and the latest from a Christian author whose stories of life and faith in tough places sell in very respectable quantities around the world.

And of course, our guests have brought along some treasures from their own shelves which they think would be good for us - or at least to fill someone else's stocking.

Joining Roy for the programme are: the historian Elin Jones, paediatrician Heather Payne, and George Craig, who read vast numbers of very long documents in his career as a civil servant and is now glad to be able to curl up with a few things he finds rather more engaging. Or maybe not. ...

The featured books are: David Lloyd George: the Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace by Philip Yancey

And the individual choices: Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder The Tonypandy Riots 1910/1911 by David Maddox and Gwyn Evans You're Welcome to Ulster by Menna Gallie