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with Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45. Prayer for the Day With CANON FRANK WRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Canon Frank Wright
Read By:
Harriet Cass

The final programme in the current series in which Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor examine the education system with parents' needs in mind. They report on 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 programme is devoted to topics suggested by listeners.
Producer JENNY DE YONG long wave only

Contributors

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

by Arnold Evans
Read by Shirley Dixon

'I'm afraid I can't pass you this time. You are obliged by the Road Traffic Act, 1972, to observe the 30-mile-an-hour speed limit in a built-up area, unless road signs indicate otherwise. On Westbury Road, madam, you nearly reached 50.'

(long wave only)

Contributors

Author:
Arnold Evans
Reader:
Shirley Dixon

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Shirley Conran - ' Super-woman
Poverty in Perspective: a report by GILLIAN TINDALL , recently in India.
I Smiled Out Loud.... : SIMON BRETT looks at the latest funny books.
A Special Kind of Garden: JILL BURRIDGE visits Lime Kiln, in Claydon, Suffolk, which grows 511 varieties of roses.
North and South (6) Ions wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Conran
Unknown:
Gillian Tindall
Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Jill Burridge

Sea Wall by WILLIAM FOX
'Our hands went up to our faces as if agitated by something we had to brush away, ward off, until we cowered each against an arm of the bench* The breeze was now a roaring wind, the sea fairly crashing against the sea-wall."
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON

Contributors

Directed By:
David Johnston
John:
Graham Faulknes
Hazel:
Frances Jeater
Night porter:
Lockwood West
Bank manager/Sleeping car attendant:
William Fox

from Guildford Cathedral Responses (Smith)
Psalm 104 (Hopkins, Goff) First Lesson: Ezekiel 2, vv 3-11
Canticles: Fifth Service (Tomkins)
Second Lesson: Acts 1, w 1-14
Anthem: Sing joyfully (Byrd)
Organist PHILIP MOORE
Sub-organist PETER WRIGHT

Contributors

Organist:
Philip Moore
Organist:
Sub-Organist Peter Wright

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
(Repeated: Friday 12,27)

Contributors

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

That is how Kipling described Calcutta, a city in which one in four people live in registered slums or insanitary housing and 200,000 sleep on the streets.
Many Westerners know the work of Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity, but what is being done for the city by the government, the local authorities and other relief and development agencies? And how do they view the pioneering work of Mother Teresa ?
Colin Semper explores the city in which the problems seem insurmountable but where many see signs of hope.
Producer MICHAEL MAYNE

Contributors

Unknown:
Mother Teresa
Unknown:
Mother Teresa
Unknown:
Colin Semper

Round 2
England v Germany
(End of Round 1 scores: England 10i, Germany 8½) England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Germany:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Dieter Schroeder Foreign Editor of Suddcutsche Zeitung and Professor Paul Noack a political scientist Question researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Dieter Schroeder
Unknown:
Professor Paul Noack

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