S.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD SYUS
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on and (6.50 only) Keep Fit: Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.55. At 7.8 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's' Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
Birds of the Himalayas
Everest climbers, little yellow idols, perhaps the occasional yeti-but the Himalaya Range is also a marvellous place for birds, as wildlife recordist TERRY WHITE found wtien he lived for some years in Katmandu.
Today he describes the delights and hazards of his travels, and plays some of the bird voices he recorded there.
Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer DILYS BREESE
Clouds of Witness by DOROTHY L. SAYERS : adapted in eight episodes by PETER JONES and TANIA LIEVEN starring
3: The Diamond Cat
Lucy Grimethorpe/Receptionist/
Shop Assistant...BONNIE HURREN
Producer SIMON BRETT
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by PETER JEFFERSON Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 114; From all that dwell (BBC HB 5); Psalm 29; Jonah 2. v 10 and 3, vv 1-10 (NEB): Hail to the Lord's Anointed (BBC HB 457)
Telling the Time by the Starlings by RUMER GODDEN abridged and read by David Davis
In spite of his attentiveness to time, he was usually ti.ed; ' Charles! I have called you three times ...' He opened his eyes. ' Who was that girl I met on the stairs? '
John Amis turns his attention this week to - Critics and Impresarios
The critical heroes are Cardus, Shaw, Glock and Virgil Thompson, whilst the impresarios are headed by John Christie of Glyndebourne and Sir Rudolf Bing of the Met.
All Down to True Love by SHAUN USHER with Frances Jeater as Maggie and David Brierley as Ben
I didn'believe in it - love. A great conspiracy got up to sell engagement rings and three-piece suites on the HP. I thought it was me. Like being tone deaf. I'd never found anybody I cared about more than myself. Until now.
Producer PETER NOVIS
Presenter Nancy Wise
Shocking? Why pay more for the same appliances? TED IIAR-RISON investigates why prices of electrical goods vary so much.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2 Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Evelyn Anthony
2.0-2.2 News
There will be a Collection: HELEN PALMER discovers that, sometimes, charity begins at the local pub.
Christmas Presents - the Personal Touch: All your own work. 2: Confectionery and crackers.
How Near Equality?: to find Out THORNTON PEARN talks to three generations of women
ANN MORRISH reads Angel (10)
Stories: The Bears in Joanna's Boots by IRENE NORTHAN and Stomp.' Stompl Stomp! by MARGARET GORE
More stories by Margaret Gore in Little Pig and the Big Potato, 25p from bookshops
As Others See Us by IVOR WILSON
I've learned to look after patients, to tolerate them, humour them and care for them - as patients, not as people - and I've survived because of it. What sort of relationships are possible with patients on a busy ward - they either die or go home.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
Johnny Morris on his out-of-season, island-hopping jaunt round the Mediterranean. 3: Sicily to Tunisia .
Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature 3: The Simple Life
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Puccini: died 29 November 1924 The operas of Giacomo Puccini are among the most popular in the repertoire - Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, The Girl of the Golden West, Turandot. They brought Puccini in his lifetime fame and fortune.
In this anniversary portrait of the composer who died 50 years ago Edward Greenfield presents highlights from the operas, performed by some of the world's great singers.
(Puccini's opera Siior Angelica: tomorrow, 4.15 Radio 3)
Thank You by JILL HYEM with Sylvia Syms as udu Colette O'Neil as Jan
Have I ceased to be a person because Laurie's dead? Is being alone some sort of social offence? ' When you're on your own that's the time you most need your friends, but they're not always forthcoming. Producer JANE GRAHAM (Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
The New Liberty
Six talks about survival and justice in a changing world by Ratf Dabrendorf , Director of the London School of Economics, and a former Commissioner of the EEC.
3: Justice without Bondage
Social reforms in the last hundred years have brought more social justice to more people. They have also led to the formation of sclerotic social structures. Huge bureaucracies have grown up, quota representation has replaced individual rights, and the political public is fragmented. Professor Dahrendorf argues that we must improve such structures and give the individual full benefit of his citizenship. Producer ANTHONY RENDELL
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer CHRIS SWANN
Douglas Stuart reporting
In the Money by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Read by PETER MARINKER (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
preceded by Weather
