A series of 26 programmes in Hindustani and English.
' Episode 9
Written by NASEEM KHAN
Producer ROBERT CLAMP
Director PETER LEE-WRIGHT

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

In the Shadow of the Falcon Narrated by DEREK JONES
The peregrine falcon is one of the world's most spectacular birds of prey. This story is about the handful of wardens - men like Roy Dennis of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - who watch over such rare creatures and ensure they can breed in peace. We share his anxieties as he guards a pair of peregrines at a remote glen in the central Highlands of Scotland. With him we are able to watch the private life of the peregrine falcons at their cliff-face site as they feed and rear their young.
Producer DAVID COBHAM
Series editor MICHAEL ANDREWS. BBC Bristol

By satellite
Australia v England from
Perth BOBBY SIMPSON introduces highlights of the final day's play.
Commentators
JIM LAKER , FRANK TYSON
KEITH MILLER and NORMAN MAY
Television presentation by the AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION

Weather on 2

Islands of the Grey Wind
In Orkney, they say, only the climate is rough: the landscape is gentle, the islands ' like sleeping whales'.
Today, three naturalists, Orcadian Sheila Spence , and incomers David Lea and John Crothers , bring us some of the sights and sounds of Orkney in winter-wide moor-lands and peaceful lochs, soft-eyed seal pups waiting to be fed and the wild melancholy cry of whooper swans.
Film cameramen
MAURICE FISHER , JEREMY GOULB Film editor PETER HEELEY Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

from the Wembley Arena
Buffalo Bill returns to London in the person of Rudy Robbins to present the show which includes The Deadwood Stage
Trick and Fancy Roping: a display of rope artistry first introduced to the show in 1896 Whip-Cracking: brought to the peak of its expertise by the Bradys The Original Americans: representatives from nine Indian tribes Los Argentines: a breathtaking exhibition with the Bolas The Wagon Train Finale
Television presentation PETER HYLTON CLEAVER
Televised by arrangement with DEREK BLOCK PROMOTIONS

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Mike Farrell as B.J.

As Hawkeye, Radar and Hot Lips, sole survivors on the old camp site, await the enemy, the rest, particularly Klinger, encounter other hazards.

Owain Arwel Hughes conducts and introduces carols and seasonal music with Sheila Armstrong
John Shirley-Quirk
BBC Concert Orchestra Royal Choral Society from the Royal College of Music, London.
A stereo broadcast with Radio 2
Produced by JOHN VERNON
For the best effect, viewers with stereo Radio 2 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either 'side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative

A unique programme highlighting the comedic versatility of a great actress in sketches by famous writers including an excerpt from The Way of the World. Special guests
Derek Francis , Patricia Hayes
Norman Rossington , Sheila Steafel with Warwick Evans , David Machin Deryk Parkin , Christopher Wren
Artistic direction and staging WILLIAM CHAPPELL
Musical director BURT RHODES
Costume designer RUPERT JARVIS
Sound HUGH BARKER. Lighting DICKIE BIGHAM Designer PETER BRACHACKI Producer ROBIN NASH

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
This week: Harold Evans , editor of the Sunday Times, on The Treasure of Sierra Madre. tomorrow's Midweek Cinema Producer
Director SUE MALLINSON BARRY BROWN

Weather

with Gavin Millar
Robert Altman is one of the most accomplished film-makers in the world. His output has the kind of unexpected and original stamp that can provoke fury as much as idolatry. With M*A*S*H and Nashville, he has gathered around himself a regular production team and stable of actors. His new film is A Wedding which has attracted the usual crop of contradictory notices. It opens here on 28 December. Arena: Cinema presents an exclusive interview with ALTMAN plus news of Karel Reisz 's new film, the story of a Vietnam veteran, Dog Soldiers.
DirectorROSEMARY BOWEN-JONES Assistant producer JULIAN JEM Producer GAVIN MILLAR

DR ROY STRONG on Mystic Nativity by BOTTICELLI, reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London.