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What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Nigel Rees with another bouquet of bons mots. Identifying the quotations are
Jean Boht , Sheridan Morley , Peter Porter and Humphrey Carpenter. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER. Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer ARMANDO 1ANNUCCI Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Jean Boht
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.

The Party Through the Wall
A ghost story for radio by MURIEL SPARK.
The setting is South Kensington, London, in the late 40s.
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Dr Fell/Narrator:
James Cairncross
Miss Carson:
Diana Olsson
Housekeeper:
Vivienne Dixon
Countess:
Pat Williams
Party guest:
Yonnie Howgill

Six biographers in conversation.
3: Penelope Fitzgerald asks Ann Thwaite about her work on Frances Hodgson Burnett ,
Edmund Gosse and A. A. Milne.
Producer ED THOMASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Penelope Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Ann Thwaite
Unknown:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Unknown:
Edmund Gosse
Unknown:
A. A. Milne.

Eight programmes by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE. Starring With and 5: Maybe, Baby
Producer SIONED WILIAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Etherington
Unknown:
Gavin Petrie.
Producer:
Sioned Wiliam
Bill:
James Bolam
Faith:
Lynda Bellingham
Hannah:
Kelda Holmes
Joe:
Mark Denham
Mr Burrows:
Norman Bird

Four programmes in which Dylan Winter meets people who offer their services and yet retain the upper hand over their customers.
What do you do when the nice man charges you £200 for fitting a new main-drive sprocket flange to your 1963 Marina? You pay him, of course. But why? Dylan takes his wreck to a local garage to seek a cure for one of those difficult-to-locate grinding noises and the answers to a few questions.
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Presenter:
Dylan Winter
Producer:
Brian King

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White. Producer THENA HESHEL
0 QUESTIONS AND
COMMENTS: tel [number removed]from 9.15pm-10.15.
0 FACTSHEET: send large sae to: [address removed]
0 HANDBOOK: £8.50, from
[address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter White.

Anne Theroux reports on the world premiere in Leicester of a new work by British playwright
Edward Bond ; finds out where theatre directors come from; and visits Bristol for the latest exhibition by painter Elizabeth McGill. Producer TIM DEE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Theroux
Unknown:
Edward Bond
Unknown:
Elizabeth McGill.
Producer:
Tim Dee

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