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This takes many forms - drugs and alcohol are probably the most damaging, with smoking not far behind. Is addiction the price we have to pay for the stresses of the technological age? If you have questions you want answered on the problems of addiction put them to Derek Rutherford , Director, National Council on Alcoholism, and Dr Martin Mitcheson. a Consultant Psychiatrist working among drug addicts.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Rutherford
Unknown:
Dr Martin Mitcheson.

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4: Billy Cotton
As English as the Sunday roast, as honest as a corn-plaster, as subtle as a family row - the Billy Cotton Band Show
Tony Bilbow looks back on the careers of people who were popular heroes and tries to discover the secret of their success. Producer BRIAN COOK

Contributors

Producer:
Brian Cook

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What Else Did Daddy Say? by BEN STEED withand
Ten-year-old Patrick, it seems, understands more about the break-up of his parents' marriage than they do themselves. Directed by LIANE AUKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Steed
Directed By:
Liane Aukin
Patrick:
Matthew Ryan
Mum:
Elizabeth Bell
Dad:
Peter Wiekham
Emma:
Sarah Steed

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Will Big Brother Be Around in the Year 20001: with telephone exchanges, electronic mail, ordering groceries by computer and visual display units. BARBARA myers wonders if. by the end of the century, we will ever need to leave our armchairs.
2.1-2.2 News
Work in Progress: NOEL BARBER talks about the book he's working on. Reading Your Letters.
Back to Life: ANNE MACNAMARA visits a stroke club and gets advice from the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association.
Slightly Less Stately: JENNIFER MAY visits the Treasurers' House in York.
Quartet in Autumn (9)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor

visits Lancashire, where members of the Orrell and District Horticultural and Allotment Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN CEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Professor Alan Cemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

Chairman Nicholas Parsons
Kenneth Williams. Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Sheila Hancock endeavour to prevent each other from talking. Devised by IAN. MESSITER Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams.
Unknown:
Clement Freud.
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Producer:
John Browell

' A great woman, impudent. audacious, a flaming creature ... this glittering bird on the wing ' is how Churchill described Margot Asquith. wife of the Liberal Prime Minister and a leading figure in society in the first part of this century. Nigel Rees introduces a portrait of this remarkable woman by those who knew her. including LAURA GRIMOND , MARK BONHAM CARTER , LADY ELLIOT, JOYCE GRENFELL and ANNE SYMONDS.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Margot Asquith.
Introduces:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Laura Grimond
Unknown:
Mark Bonham Carter
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Anne Symonds.
Producer:
Anne Sloman

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