Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV DR DONALD ENGLISH Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

In the last programme in the series Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.45pm) 0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 96

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.30 pm)

The Music on the Hill by SAKI
Read by Hugh Dickson
Sylvi? has netted a rich husand with a house in the country. But the peace and quiet are deceptive. Beneath the surface lurks a sense of danger that she cannot ignore....
Producer MITCH RAPER

Advent Calendar
Light of the Nations
NEM, p 114; Jesus shall reign
(BBC HB 460); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519);
Isaiah 60 w 1-6; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372) Stereo
Book,'NewEveryMorning',£2.25; video'Songs of Praise', £19.99; 'Top
Ten Hymns' on album and cassette;
"TopTwentyHymns'oncompactdisc from retailers

A quarterly report on the world of employment introduced by Brian Redhead
It's not the employer who fires the worker, but the worker who sacks the employer That's the opinion of many industrialists ui "be thriving economy of Hong Kong. Despite the differences of culture, are there any lessons the British workforce can hear?
Brian Redhead reports from
Hong Kong and also brings up-to-date news of what has fe^SnK^ain over the past three months. Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Researcher STEPHEN SACKUR
ProducerCHRISTOPHER STONE
(Re-broadcast on New YearSEve)

The last of six programmes presented by Andrew Mitchell
The Mava of eastern New Guinea Live in tree houses the pygmies of West Africa skilfully shin up vines in search of honey, and the Penan of Borneo use blowpipes to catch monkeys for the pot In many parts of the world man still lives in close association with trees but the forest is slowly disappearing.
BBC Bristol

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The last of four investigative reports
City Limits
The money-men may be making a killing, but are they getting away with murder?
David Lander looks at the City and in particular the Rouget Dory Venture Capital Syndicate.
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY asE'stedby ROBERT BATHURST.
FELICITY MONTAGU and JACK KLAFF Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN and HARRY ENFIELD (R)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

Today's story: King Jolly and the Christmas Present Stereo

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin
Rape Within Marriage: a report on the work of the Women's Law and Research Group and their campaign to change current legislation.
Producer COLIN LEWIS BBC Northern Ireland Eight Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 5: The Demon Lover

by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The last of eight parts dramatised by PETER BUCKMAN
The emergence of Major
Pendennis's valet, Morgan, as a key figure throws Pen's future at Westminster into some doubt. But, for the moment, more pressing is the issue of who will become his wife....
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH Stereo

North American Indians dance up a storm all over Canada doing traditional dancing for prize money on the pow-wow circuit. But you have to look harder to find the sacred Sundance which has deep spiritual meaning. Although all are welcome at the pow-wow. few white people have ever attended the Sundance.
Margaret Horsfleld went to both with Wes Fineday of the Cree tribe.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon dough
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ANGELA HIND Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Geoffrey Goodman casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind , mp The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp The Rt Hon Shirley Williams , and General Eva Burrows , World Leader, the Salvation Army from London
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Citizen Clint - the Carmel mayor who has not yet resorted to a tough-guy act. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Michael Billington presents tonight's edition.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Christmas with the Savages by MARY CLIVE abridged in five parts by DIANA TURNER
Read by Phyllida Nash (5) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Starting on Monday: 'My Uncle Silas' by H. E. Bates )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

Radio 4's international busmess report; market trends

Let Week Ending give you a spring in your step, a song in your heart, a nice glossy coat and a cold, wet nose with satirical sketches on the week's news. with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT , MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER and others
Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude