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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. with Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by laurie MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Robert Rietty
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 'educationists '.
This week: The Effects of Bullying
Producer JENNY DE YONG long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Turner
Unknown:
Maureen O'Connor
Producer:
Jenny de Yong

Meeting on a Bridge by JENNY STEBBINGS
Read by Elizabeth Proud 1 We are crying out I suppose the message we all like to cry: " No one understands us." But perhaps the truth is we never try to understand those "around us first.' long wave only

Contributors

Read By:
Elizabeth Proud

Guests contribute their own experience of dealing with personal. moral and spiritual issues. 10: Honesty in Action
Devised and presented by John Newbury
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
John Newbury
Producer:
Roger Hutchings

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week:
Miss Mildred Head , obe, first woman Life President of the National Chamber of Trade.
To the Rose: compilation of poetry and music by ANNE HARVEY.
Reading Your Letters.
Hay Fever: MIKE SHEILS finds out about the causes, the effects and the treatment.
Chelsea Child (7) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss Mildred Head
Music By:
Anne Harvey.
Unknown:
Mike Sheils

Passport to Power by PHILIP HONEYWELL with Anton Rodgers
Caroline Blakiston Neville Jason and Jennifer Piercty
The second of Philip Honeywell's trilogy of plays about three Government Whips who are rather more concerned with self-advancement than with the smooth running of the country. Two of them have been sent to the West Indies on a Government mission - while the other is up to his usual tricks back in London ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Unknown:
Caroline Blakiston
Unknown:
Neville Jason
Unknown:
Jennifer Piercty
Wilfred Pillman:
Anton Rodgers
Helen Bosworth:
Caroline Blakiston
Simon Orvill:
Neville Jason
Linda Orvill:
Jennifer Piercey
Roy Banting:
Peter Williams
Clyde Hepworth:
Norman Beaton
Alan Dobon:
Stefan Kalipha
Mark Grigson:
Philip Voss
Alistair Wedderburn:
Robert Trotter
WAITER/NEWVASTER/STEWARD:
Joe Dunlop
SECRETARY/PILOT:
Harold Kasket

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)
Responses (Tomkins)
Psalms: 32,33,34 (Cooper, Pye, Martin)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 22, vv 29-37
Canticles: Evening Service in G minor (Purcell) Second Lesson: Acts 3, vv 1-10
Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Organ Scholar THOMAS TROTTBR
Director of Music PHILIP LEDGER

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Trottbr

Devised by EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SHRYANB John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 12.27)

Contributors

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

It is estimated that about one person in 2,000 is a transgenderist - someone who feels an overwhelming need either to dress in the clothes of the opposite gender, or, a more complicated problem, to ' 'change sex' completely.
This programme looks at the needs of these people both through their own eyes and through those of a psychiatrist, a physiologist, an expert in the law and a clergyman to discover what the problem is really like and what can be done about it. Written and presented by Claire Rayner Producer
TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales

Contributors

Presented By:
Claire Rayner
Producer:
Teleri Bevan

The Turkish Domino
Presented by John Eidinow Turkey is facing a crisis, with the economy in a state of collapse and political violence at civil war proportions. Can the Government survive these pressures? Could they change Turkey's relations with her neighbour, the Soviet Union? And what are the strategic implications for NATO's southern Bank? Producer CAROLINE THOMSON
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)

Contributors

Producer:
Caroline Thomson

England v Italy. Round 1 England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Italy:
Gordon Clough
(Chairman), with Professor Luigi Spaventa , economist and politician and Francesco Russo , journalist and London correspondent of L'Espiesso. Question researcher BERNICE coupe Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 4.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Professor Luigi Spaventa
Unknown:
Francesco Russo

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