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John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
Brian Redhead in London
6.46* Prayer for the Day with DOM ROBERT GIBBONS
7.0 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Dom Robert Gibbons
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Action Special
There are 450.000 young People out of work and the situation is likely to get worse. If you or your son or daughter cannot find a job. why not ring us and we'll try and offer some help and advice, or Perhaps you can help others with your experience.
Margaret Korving , the careers journalist, and Ray Hurst , Principal Careers Officer for Cleveland, are in the studio with Judith Chalmers waiting for your calls.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Korving
Unknown:
Ray Hurst
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

Lunch Duty by RONY ROBINSON
'I'm 38 years old and I m going to ring off now because there's someone else intruding.'
English teacher Janet has a morning off school following a row over a pupil protest movement. She uses the time to take stock of her life and just what her job really amounts to in the educational climate of 1980. Directed by DAVID SHEASBY BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Rony Robinson
Directed By:
David Sheasby
Janet:
Maggie McCarthy
Keith:
Will Tacey
Richard:
John Wheatley
Dad:
John Jardine

The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat at 2.5 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

Introduced by Chris Mohr Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Trarels on an Elephant <7): CHRISTINA DODWELL works in a forestry camp near the Burmese border CSE in Babies: BARBARA MYERS on a new course in child development.
Wear and Care (3): MUR-IELCLARKE on looking after furniture.
Love for Lydia (9) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr
Unknown:
Christina Dodwell
Unknown:
Barbara Myers

Peregrination
In 1773 Dr Johnson, accompanied by his faithful biographer James Bos well, embarked on a 'wild peregrination' to the Inner Hebrides.
If I should tell a tea-table in London that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat, how they'd shudder and what a fool they'd think me to expose myself to such danger.
Alan Hamilton , in conversation with the inhabitants of Coll, Iona, Raasay and Skye. discovers some of the changing-and eternal - aspects of life in the islands. with Anthony Newlands as Dr Johnson and Bill Paterson as James Boswell
Producer SIMON ELMES

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bos
Unknown:
Alan Hamilton
Unknown:
Anthony Newlands
Unknown:
Bill Paterson
Unknown:
James Boswell
Producer:
Simon Elmes

Three major prosecutions have been brought under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act against Lady Chatterley's Lover, Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn and Inside Linda Lovelace. All three were acquitted.
Geoffrey Robertson reviews the change of attitudes - in and outside the courts - to ' obscene ' literature, and asks whether further legislation is needed.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Lovelace.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Robertson
Producer:
Richard Ellis

Aprogrammeofspecial interest to the visually handicapped.
Hannah Wright has some advice for blind cooks on methods of boiling; and Peter White looks at what is available on tape for people who enjoy romantic fiction.
Presented by David Scott Blackball Producer THENA HESHEL
To check information pioen, or comment on issues raised, phone [number removed]after the broadcast until 10.30 pm Handbook: In Touch. £1.50, by post, page 3 has details

Contributors

Unknown:
Hannah Wright
Unknown:
Peter White
Presented By:
David Scott Blackball
Producer:
Thena Heshel

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