Today's story is 'Outside My Window'
Written by Liesel Moak Skorpen

Reflection in the mathematical sense can also be done by means of a matrix
Introduced by Alan Tammadge

with Peter Woods
Weather

William Avery, 88 years old and a Chelsea Pensioner, looks back over a life of military discipline. Now the oldest surviving member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he recalls what life was like as a soldier in the Boer War.

Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

It begins in London's Kings Road, New York's Greenwich Village, Toronto's Market Street, Amsterdam's Dam Square. It goes all the way through Istanbul, Tehran, and Kabul to the East. For some it ends in contemplation on the Ganges or meditation in Khatmandu. But for others it may lead to drug addiction-in Delhi, among the drifting hippy communes of Asia. For too many it ends in repatriation, disease, even death. The hippy trail is more than a journey, it's an idea; people sometimes looking for new values, more often simply opting out, hoping for short cuts to a Nirvana that does not exist.
Jeremy James and a Man Alive film unit followed the hippy trail to India and Nepal. But their journey brought them to London where the trail has finally and perhaps tragically ended for an 18-year-old girl they met in Delhi.

Introduced by Jack Pizzey
Small animals can suffer accidents to the eye, and from cataracts - tonight's programme shows how they can be treated.

by Ian Curteis
Starring Michael Jayston as Beethoven, Judy Parfitt as Josephine Deym, Edward Hardwicke as Franz von Brunswick
with Charles Leno as Haydn, John Loder as General Kugelgen

Beethoven between 22 and 35 learning to live with deafness, disillusionment, and genius.

(Edward Hardwicke is a National Theatre player)