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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
S.4S* Prayer for the Day With THE REV MICHAEL SMITH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.31. 8.30 News headlines
7.4S* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Michael Smith
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

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 education- ists'.. Producer JENNY he YONG
Send queries, comments and suggestions for topics you'd like to hear discussed to: Parent Power, Broadcasting House, London W1A IAA

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Turner
Unknown:
Maureen O'Connor

Bomb Disposal by JOHN GOODWIN Read by Geoffrey Wright
' There was not, George reflected, a single reason why he should kill his wife. It was the sum total of the nasty little things about her that made his life a misery.'

Contributors

Unknown:
John Goodwin
Read By:
Geoffrey Wright

A conversation in which guests contribute their own experiences of dealing with personal, moral and spiritual issues. 9: Discrimination
Devised and presented by John Newbury
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presented By:
John Newbury
Producer:
Roger Hutchings

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Emlyn Hughes , international footballer.
New York Report: by HELENE HANFF.
Reading Your Letters.
The Magic Word is Wibbley-Wobbley: PAM GILL-HAM joins some of the new-style entertainers at children's parties. Chelsea Child (2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Emlyn Hughes
Unknown:
Helene Hanff.

by Gerry Jones

Paul Wood finds himself in a strange hotel. He doesn't know why he is there or how he got there. Every time he tries to 'escape' he is brought back and the vicious circle begins again. Is it a nightmare? Has he lost his memory, or is it perhaps, even more extraordinary?

Contributors

Writer:
Gerry Jones
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Robert Carter:
Nigel Anthony
Paul Wood:
John Pullen
Porter:
Roger Hammond
Paul's mother/Cleaner:
Eva Stuart
Barman/Second man:
Michael McStay
Hotel manager:
Philip Voss
Policeman/First man:
Peter Wickham
Ann:
Sarah Badel
Shop assistant/Nurse:
Susan Sloman
Doctor:
Peter Baldwin

from
Gloucester Cathedral
Introit: Locus Iste (Bruckner)
Versicles and Responses (Philip Lane)
Psalms 148, 149, 150 (Stanford, Nares. Sanders) Lessons: 2 Kings 18, vv 13-25; Mark 8, vv 27-33
Canticles (Stanford in A) Anthem: Let all the world in every corner sing (Kenneth Leighton )
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN SANDERS
Assistant Organist ANDREW MILLINGTON BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Organist:
Kenneth Leighton

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE 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:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

A confection of recorded humour on the eternal encounter and its consequences, from
NOËL COWARD, PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE, WOODY ALLEN, MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN, JOYCE GRENFELL, TOM LEHRER, ROY HUDD, JOHN CLEESE, STANLEY HOLLOWAY and many others.
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Cook
Unknown:
Dudley Moore
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Swann Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Tom Lehrer
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Producer:
Simon Brett

In the first of two programmes, Leslie Smith presents some of the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service whose report will be published shortly; and in the second part of the programme discusses the recommendations which might be made with Sir George Godber
Professor Rudolf Klein and Dr Anne Savage.
Researcher TOM SUTCLIFFE Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEPF

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Sir George Godber
Unknown:
Professor Rudolf Klein
Unknown:
Dr Anne Savage.
Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Anthony Moncriepf

Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident British team.
England v Spain
Round 1
England: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich
Spain: Gordon Clough (Chairman) with the Marquesa de Casa Valdes, botanist and bibliophile, and Professor Pedro Schwartz, economist, historian and writer

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Chairman (England):
Anthony Quinton
Panellist (England):
Irene Thomas
Panellist (England):
John Julius Norwich
Chairman (Spain):
Gordon Clough
Panellist (Spain):
The Marquesa de Casa Valdes
Panellist (Spain):
Professor Pedro Schwartz
Question researcher:
Bernice Coupe
Producer:
Trevor Hill

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