The three prizewinning plays from the BBC African Service 1972 Competition, introduced by GWYNETH HENDERSON Who organised it.
Sweet Scum of Freedom by JAGJIT SINGH (Uganda) (Third prize)
The play deals with the problems of a newly independent African state and of its minority Asian population.
8.0* Make Like Slaves by Richard RIVE (South Africa) (First prize)
A Cape-Coloured poet and a liberal-minded white girt confront one another.
8.30* Station Street by KHALID ALMUBARAK MUSTAFA (Sudan)
A mother, who has sacrificed herself to send her son to England to study, faces one of the problems of any evolving society.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX