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You are helping the villagers of a small under-developed country to establish their own clean water supply. Vital equipment does not arrive. How can you complete the job before the rain starts and drilling becomes impossible? The On Your Farm team plays this farming game on a Voluntary Services Overseas training course with the young people who will soon be playing it for real.
Producer LIZ RIGBEY
(Rev re-broadcast Monday at 7.20pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Liz Rigbey

Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday scene with Robin Dewhurst , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF including at 9.0 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Robin Dewhurst
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart.
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

Twenty years ago President Johnson signed an Executive
Order designed to combat racial discrimination in the labour market. Now President Reagan is urged by some of his closest advisors to do away with compulsory quotas of black workers for government contracts. While this controversial initiative is being debated in the United States, the British Government is launching an action plan to persuade employers to hire larger numbers of black workers. Anthony Howard introduces a discussion on Positive Discrimination.
Those taking part include Peter Bottomley , Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment, and William Bradford Reynolds , President Reagan's Assistant Attorney General.
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER

Contributors

Introduces:
Anthony Howard
Unknown:
Peter Bottomley
Unknown:
William Bradford Reynolds
Producer:
Harry Schneider

Ned Sherrin , studio guests, and regular and irregular contributions from Angela Gordon of The Times Robert Elms of The Face and Stephen Fry of No Fixed Abode Together they pick over some of the week's loose ends and decide which can be left hanging and which look like tying themselves, and us, in knots tomorrow. Including
Nigel Farrell with Farrell's Travels and Making Yourself Totally
Perfect - the Mat Coward course in self-improvement. This programme is LAURIE TAYLOR free.
Additional material from
AUSTAIR BEATON
Producers LAN
GARDHOUSE SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Angela Gordon
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
Gardhouse Simon Shaw
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney

The Green Isle of the Great Deep
A phantasy in two parts by JOHN KEIR CROSS from the novel by NEIL M. GUNN with Gwyneth Guthrie Alex Mackenzie and Duncan Mclntyre Part 2
Old Hector and Young Art have fallen into the Hazel Pool and discovered that the Green Isle of the Great Deep is far from a paradise. Art escapes, but Hector is taken to see the Questioner.
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
(First broadcast in 1966)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keir
Novel By:
Neil M. Gunn
Unknown:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Unknown:
Alex MacKenzie
Unknown:
Hazel Pool
Producer:
Stewart Conn
Presenter:
Duncan McIntyre
Questioner:
Tom Watson
Old Hector:
Alex MacKenzie
Mary:
Effie Morrison
Robert:
Henry Stamper
Tom:
Paul Young
The Head:
Ian Gilmour
Manmar:
Bryden Murdoch
Vice-Head:
Martin Heller
Merk:
Bryden Murdoch
Young Art:
Gwyneth Guthrie
The Starter/Voice:
James Crampsey
Morag:
Mary Riggans

Stage-Coach in a Winter Storm The awful truth about stage-coach travel revealed by Leslie Gardiner with the help of contemporary accounts read by TONY BOWERS. MARTIN HELLER
DIANA OLSSON , FINLAY WELSH and PAUL YOUNG
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 11.0am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Gardiner
Read By:
Tony Bowers.
Read By:
Martin Heller
Read By:
Diana Olsson
Producer:
John Arnott

Rudyard Kipling circumnavigated the world in his early 20s and remained an enthusiastic traveller all his life. Marghanita Laski follows his travels and explores that world which Kipling brought to life in his writings.
2: Points from India with Joss Ackland as Rudyard Kipling
Read by HENRY STAMPER ,
JOHN SAMSON , MONTY MODLYN and JON STRICKLAND
Producer HELEN FRY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Read By:
Henry Stamper
Read By:
John Samson
Read By:
Monty Modlyn
Read By:
Jon Strickland

by Allen Saddler
with Patrick Mower as Horatio Bottomley

Horatio Bottomley is something of what would nowadays be called a 'wide-boy'. But, in the jingoistic atmosphere of World War I Britain, he found himself raised up as a super-patriot, even reaching Parliament as a member. Even for lucky Horatio, however, all good things must come to an end...

BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0pm)
Hear This! page 12

Contributors

Writer:
Allen Saddler
Director:
Brian Miller
Horatio Bottomley:
Patrick Mower
James:
Chip Sweeney
Lord/Charlie/Counsel:
George Parsons
Lottie/Florence:
Maggie Tarver
Nellie/Actress:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Eliza/Patty:
Debbie Hurst
O'Hagan/Bigland:
Edward de Souza
Chairman/Jim/Judge:
Gregory de Polnay
Cox/Hicks:
Gregory Phillips
Peggy:
Tessa Worsley
Elias/MacDonald:
David Garth
Wild K.C.:
Peter Woodthorpe

A galaxy of really famous people pop in throughout the show just to say 'Hi'. There's someone for everybody, so drop whatever you're doing and listen to this instead.
STEVE BROWN , PAUL B. DAVIES JEREMY HARDY HUNTER
AND
DOCHERTY JOHN IRWIN , HELEN LEDERER PAUL MARTIN , HELEN MURRY
GEOFFREY PERKINS , ROGER PLANER SMITH AND KYAN. NICK WILTON and the producer JAMIE RIX. Stereo (Re-broadcast Friday at 12.27pm) ('In One Ear' is performed live each week at the Paris Studio, Lower
Regent Street, London Wl. Doors open
11.0pm. Nick Wilton is in 'The Sloane Ranger Revue at the Duchess Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy Hunter
Unknown:
Docherty John Irwin
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Paul Martin
Unknown:
Helen Murry
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Producer:
Jamie Rix.
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Starting:
Steve Brown,
Helen Lederer,:
Clive Mantle
Actor:
Nick Wilton
Then possibly:
Arnold Brown

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