Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
At the Top and Bottom or the World: NOEL BARBER has spent New Year in the South Pole and the Himalayas tA Caravan for Me: SARAH and ELLEN BEECH talk to JOAN PYPER about their life on the fairground
Facing up to the New Year:
JANET TEISSIER DU CROS on diaries and resolutions
Bargains Galore?: JIM BLACK takes a look at the January sales
Book of the Year: a personal choice from BARONESS STOCKS and BASIL BOOTHROYD
MORAY WATSON reads Some People by HAROLD NICOLSON
Fourth of stx instalments
Moray Watson is in ' The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre. London