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Isn'there something more constructive and less wasteful to be done with offenders than sending them to prison?
The question is discussed by SIR JOSEPH MOLONY , q.c. Recorder of Bristol DR. IAN PICKERING
Director. Prison Medical Service ERIC TOWNDROW
Governor of Pentonville Prison VINCENT JONES of the Department of Health and Social Security
In the chair, TONY PARKER followed by a comment on the discussion from LORD STONHAM Minister of State, Home Office

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Joseph Molony
Unknown:
Ian Pickering
Unknown:
Vincent Jones
Unknown:
Tony Parker

An occasional series on aspects of child care
Handedness: left hand or rightt
What is the relation between handedness and brain function, and with skills such as speaking, reading, writing, spelling? Specialists working on such problems explain some of their researches.
Compiled and introduced by EILEEN CAPEL
Produced by Barbara Crowther

Contributors

Introduced By:
Eileen Capel
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by JAMES LOCKHART with songs from STEVE BENBOW
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
James Lockhart broadcasts by arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
James Lockhart
Unknown:
Steve Benbow
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Introduced By:
James Lockhart

A medical magazine introduced by JUNE ROSE and including:
All in a day's work: ANGELA PAIN reports on the jobs done by a nurse in a factory
Specialist in the Studio: a gynaecologist answers listeners' questions
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
June Rose
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A series of three programmes presenting Local Radio Stations 2: BBC Radio Leeds
Is the Goon Show ' alive and well and operating under the name of BBC Radio Leeds.' or is Radio Leeds ' the most honest portrait of a living urban organism '? The newspaper critics cannot make up their minds How about you?
Produced by the staff of Radio Leeds

Information Negative
A play for radio by Eddie Maguire with Martin Jarvis
On the way to hospital a small boy is apparently injured in a motor accident. Unknown to the hospital authorities, however, his unconsciousness is not a result of the crash.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Maguire
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey

A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
Here is the News: ALVAR LIDELL, who retires from the BBC tomorrow, talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life
You must have noticed....: Jean Rook takes a sideways look at the week's events
Is the best yet to be?: JAMES NORBURY , writer, knitter, and fashion designer, on the threshold of retirement to a 15thcentury cottage in Somerset, talks to Rosemary Hart Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Jean Rook
Unknown:
James Norbury
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart

The Bells of Blandon
A Victorian mystery by Aubrey Feist in eight parts
Andrée Melly as Lorely Tresco 4: Becky
Canon Garfield has asked for help from Scotland Yard to trace Arthur Pringle 's brutal attacker-presumably the mysterious and terrifying Prowler. And then news comes to Major Guest that a suspicious light has been seen inside the Cathedral-perhaps an intruder searching for the missing jewels, the ' Four Evangelists '?
Produced by DAVID GEARY
Andréo Melly is in 'Mixed Doubles' at the Comedy Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Feist
Unknown:
Arthur Pringle
Produced By:
David Geary
Major Dighton Guest:
Ronald Lewis
Canon Garfield:
John Wyse
Mrs Rydon:
Grizelda Hervey
Walter Rydon:
John Forrest
Julia Prinwle:
Elizabeth Cassie
Miss Tippet:
Hilda Krlseman
Becky:
Pauline Letts
Sergeant Fry:
Wiifrid Carter

by Henry Cecil
Andrew Cruickshank as Judge Cecil , in thirteen cases from his London County Court-Fact or Fiction?
13: Retrial with guest stars:
Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Lydia Long , a lady of more heart than brains, who has come to give evidence that the pencils were not stolen by her acquaintance, played by ... Denys Hawthorne as Mr. Elgar who lost his job after having been convicted of shop-lifting
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Brief Tales from the Bench by Henry Cecil , eight stories-some true, some invented-adapted by the author from the radio plays, can be obtained through booksellers (price 4s. 6d.) or from[address removed](price 5s. 3d. including postage and packing).

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Judge Cecil
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Mrs. Lydia Long
Played By:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Mr Benton, Counsel for his employers:
Lockwood West
Chairman of School Board:
Geoffrey Wincott
Store Detective:
Michael Deacon
Store Manager:
Rolf Lefebvre

David Franklin wanders round the university town remembering his student days there forty years ago He recalls the music he first heard there and introduces recordings of his distinguished contemporaries including: ALISTAIR COOKE SIR Michael REDGRAVE
LORD SOPER, KENNETH ADAM
Produced by Helen Fry
Third broadcast
This programme won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for the best British radio features script in 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Sir Michael Redgrave
Unknown:
Kenneth Adam
Produced By:
Helen Fry

Introduced by PAT WILLIAMS who talks to STEPHANIE NETTELL , JONATHAN RABAN , and EDWIN MULLINS about The Dolphin, Cousin to Man by Robert Ste nuit: Children Under Stress by Sula Wolff ; Collection Three, the last collection of short stories by Frank O'Connor ; and Jingala, a novel by Legson Kayira
Produced by Patricia Brent

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pat Williams
Unknown:
Stephanie Nettell
Unknown:
Jonathan Raban
Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Unknown:
Robert Ste
Unknown:
Sula Wolff
Stories By:
Frank O'Connor
Novel By:
Legson Kayira
Produced By:
Patricia Brent

by JUDITH LISTOWEL
Reports from a tour just ended 4: Nigeria
' This is a very peculiar war. Of course it may be a feint that the Chief of Staff should go off to play polo-he is not an irresponsible character. I drove to Maiduguri from Fort Lamy on one of the worst roads ever. Elisabeth Patterson , one of those magnificent British spinsters, showed me round the hospital. I then flew to Kaduna and so to Lagos

Contributors

Unknown:
Fort Lamy
Unknown:
Elisabeth Patterson

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