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SUE MACGREGOR appeals on behalf of the National Council for One Parent Families for their work of providing practical help and professional guidance for Britain's 700,000 one-parent families.
Donations to: Sue MacGregor, National Council for One Parent Families, [address removed]

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Watch Your Speed!: GEOFFREY HANCOCK reviews some of the developments in speed measurement used by the Police...
Same as Before, Please: JEAN RICHARDSON wishes to replace her old car.
Motor Insurance Discounts: how are they assessed and awarded? An explanation from the British Insurance Association.
Bumper Crop: a harvest of motoring news from CLIVE JACOBS. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Geoffrey Hancock
Unknown:
Jean Richardson
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs.
Producer:
John Haslam

visits Ballymoney, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland where members of the North Antrim Horticultural Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, GEOFFREY SMITH and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken

A Disorderly Girl by BRUCE STEWART with Marie Kean as Mollie Driscoll , an Irish Madam
Sarah Golding as Alice Ven ning, the ' disorderly girl ' Alaric Cotter as Jonas Venning. her husband
Clive Swift as Jeremy Bentham , the philosopher
* The sentence for stealing privily from the person is execution, to be carried out on a day following the first Sunday following conviction. However, the court has a - certain discretion % News-has recently reached this country that there is a shortage of able-bodied women in the penal colony of New South Wales. In consequence, Alice Venning - I sentence you to 15 years' transportation.'
Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Stewart
Unknown:
Marie Kean
Unknown:
Mollie Driscoll
Unknown:
Irish Madam
Unknown:
Sarah Golding
Unknown:
Alice Ven
Unknown:
Alaric Cotter
Unknown:
Jonas Venning.
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Unknown:
Jeremy Bentham
Unknown:
Alice Venning
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin

Hedgehogs in the Ocean ...
For, after all, that is the meaning of the name sea urchin. Most of us have only seen these delightful spiny animals when made into ornaments or lying dead on the sea shore, but today's programme looks at the daily life of the sea urchin.
Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wednesday 9,5 am)

Contributors

Producer:
Dilys Breese

Talking books - from popular fiction to the great classics - are invaluable for the visually handicapped, but KEVIN MUL-HERN has been looking into a new development, still at the discussion stage - the possibility of recording our national journals.
Presented by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Presented By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Michell Raper

A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne, QC, and an audience of jurors.

This evening's programme comes from Bristol. The proposition: That Concorde should not be allowed permanent landing rights at Kennedy Airport, New York. It is proposed by Carol Berman, New York Chair-woman of the Emergency Coalition to Stop Concorde and opposed by John Cope, Member of Parliament for South Gloucester.

BBC Bristol
(London Heathrow: Tuesday 9.55, BBC1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Carol Berman
Unknown:
John Cope
Producer:
Hugh Purcell
Producer:
Anthony Smith

London v West of England (Round 1) London:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Professor John B. Mays
.- who look for that which constitutes a circular protest an inquisitor from whom politicians cower, and the principal victim of the Warden of All Souls'. West of England:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Jessica Mann and Lord Foot
... who connect a certain type of shot-gun with an author who travelled in a boat and on a bicycle, the home town of Hancock's Antipodean associate, and a tragically repetitive association.
Question researcher
DAVID MACKAY. Producer TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Wed 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John B. Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Jessica Mann
Unknown:
David MacKay.

Basil Boothroyd presents The Levity and Gravity of Sydney Smith, the 19th-century clergyman and reformer whom Lord Macaulay classed as a satirist second only to Swift. The Sloth spends its life in trees.; He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense . -. like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop.' Sydney Smith is played by Colin Blakely
Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Colin Blakely is in 'Just Between Ourselves ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sydney Smith
Played By:
Colin Blakely
Producer:
Peter de Rosa
Unknown:
Colin Blakely

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