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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and abroad. Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with RABBI JOHN RAVNER
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Ravner
Read By:
David Symonds

Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor examine the education system with parents' needs in mind. They report on the issues that make education news, answer listeners' letters and decipher some of the jargon that trips so easily off the tongues of ' educationists '.
This week: Education for a Multi-Racial Society Producer JENNY be YONG
Send Queries, comments and suggestions for topics you'd like to hear discussed to: Parent Power, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Turner
Unknown:
Maureen O'Connor

Canario: Clown Canary by PATRICIA VAN TWEST
Read by Sheila Mitche. ..
' The news is very good this morning, yes?
' Very good? Ah, how 1 wish to be pleased at it. You do not know, my little friend, how I have waited for this day so I can go back. Like a dream.' long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia van Twest
Read By:
Sheila Mitche.

Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Jean Rook , Fleet Street columnist.
Portrait of a Family: 2-ANNA KALNARS Visits GERRY AND HELEN NEALE. both twice married with children of their own and from previous marriages. You Are Summonsed to Appear .. T : NORMAN TOZER compiles a guide to the Magistrates Court. 5: Verdict and Sentencing. Beware of Pity (6) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Guest
Unknown:
Jean Rook
Unknown:
Anna Kalnars
Unknown:
Helen Neale.
Unknown:
Norman Tozer

Clive by JOHN PARKER
Clive invites his friends to a dinner party with unexpected results ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Parker
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Clive:
John Barron
Doctor:
Rex Bolssworth
Albert:
Matthew Adams
Ann:
Brenda Kaye
David:
Peter Baldwin
Hilary:
Hilary Newcombe
Waiter:
John Hartoch
Monica:
Caroline Goodall

from
Winchester College Chapel Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 82-85 (Elvey, Darke, Humphrey. Coote) Canticles (Rubbra in A flat)
Readings: 2 Kings 4. vv 1-17; Mark 6, vv 1-6
Anthem: Christe qui lux es et dies (Robert Whyte ) Hymn: Light's abode. celestial Salem (Regent Square)
Choirmaster
RAYMOND HUMPHREY
Organist JOHN BELCHER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Whyte
Choirmaster:
Raymond Humphrey
Organist:
John Belcher

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANt John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

'When you arrive first it seems to be a madhouse - different languages, different traditions...' That's one leading Eurocrat's view of life in Brussels, working for the EEC. A lot is heard about wine lakes and butter mountains, little about the human face of the EEC. Tonight's documentary talks to the people whose work and social life revolve around the multi-national and multi-lingual institutions of Brussels and Luxembourg.
BBC Wales

Contributors

Producer:
Gareth Price

Into the 80s
1: Down Among the Robots
The technological developments that will shape our lives over the next decade are already a reality. What they can or cannot do, whether we will accept them, and how they will affect society if we do, is less apparent.
In the first of two programmes Mary Goldring engages in some crystalgazing.
Producer TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Goldring

Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident British team. England v Switzerland Round 1 England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Switzerland :
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Dr Max Frenkel. Director of the Foundation for Confederate Co-operation and Dr Robert Schneebeli. Director of Adult Education for the Canton of Zurich Question researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
John Julius Norwich Switzerland
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Dr Max Frenkel.
Unknown:
Dr Robert Schneebeli.

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