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An eight-part series on matters of interest and importance to everyone concerned with the education of their children. At a time when a controversial new education bill is making its way through Parliament, and there is considerable public concern about educational standards, Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor purvey news and opinion. respond to points raised in letters and explore some of the ways in which parents can help their children to get the best out of the educational system.
Correspondence to 'Parent Power', [address removed]

(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Turner
Presenter:
Maureen O'Connor

Stories of crime and detection in London
A series of 13 programmes written by Robert Barr

(12.55 Weather; programme news - long wave only)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Detective-Sergeant Brook:
Ray Brooks
Detective-Constable Maxton:
Christopher Blake
Chief Inspector Roach:
David Daker
Jimmy Lowrie:
Tom Bowles
Hughie Crerand:
Michael Packer
Station Officer:
Gordon Reid
Mr Dancie:
Nicholas Selby
Ma Lowrie:
Hilda Fenemore
Billie Sellars:
Colin Bell

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Talking Point.
Reading Your Letters.
A Teacher's Lot: some of the problems of the classroom seen through the eyes of the staff.
John and Judie; Clive Jacobs meets two Lancashire schoolteachers who spend their family holidays writing, rehearsing and singing folk music.
Journey to Amritsar (4)
long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs

by Geoffrey Parkinson
Graham and Myra, a childless couple in early middle-age, live a quiet, uninspiring life in a London suburb: then one day a series of curious events commence that make Myra begin to believe that she has been chosen for something special - by God.

Contributors

Writer:
Geoffrey Parkinson
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Graham:
Michael Gambon
Myra:
Eva Stuart
Vicar:
Peter Howell
Doctor/Radio announcer:
Peter Baldwin
Housekeeper:
Brenda Kay
First librarian:
Leonard Fenton
Second librarian:
Joste Kidd

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer:
Helen Leadbeater
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Benett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Joe Grundy:
Haydn Jones
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Richard Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Eva Lenz:
Hedli Niklaus
Jim Coverdale:
Leon Tanner

An English masque by George Frederic Handel, performed in the original version composed for the Duke of Chandos at Cannons around 1718. Introduced by Roger Savage with the (bass) English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

(gramophone records)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Frederic Handel
Introduced By:
Roger Savage

Fit the fourth: In which our heroes do a lot of running and digging.
ARTHUR: Don't ask me how it works, or I'll start to whimper.

Contributors

The Book:
Peter Jones
Arthur Dent:
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect:
Geoffrey McGivern
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX:
Mark Wing-Davey
Eddie:
David Tate
Marvin:
Stephen Moore
Bird Two:
John Baddeley
LINTILLA:
Rula Lenska
HIGG HURTENFLURST:
Mark Smith

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