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speaks for the Week's Good Cause on behalf of an organisation which helps rehabilitate people who have survived torture.
* DONATIONS to: Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. [address removed]
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from Rosyth Parish
Church, Fife, led by the Rev Stanley Scoular.
Hymns: The Lord Is King; One More Step; Art Thou Afraid?; Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow; Soldiers of Christ Arise. Readings (New
English Bible): Isaiah 51, w 1-6; John 16, w 25-33. Organist: Jim Butler.

Contributors

Organist:
Jim Butler.

A postbag edition chaired by Clay Jones. Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips solve gardening problems sent in by listeners. Producer Amanda Mares
0 WRITE on postcards only to: Gardeners' Question Time. BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1 SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips
Producer:
Amanda Mares

A trilogy of plays by Alan Ayckbourn. Living Together
The second play is set in Annie's living room.
Having failed to persuade his sister-in-law to spend a weekend with him at the seaside, the indefatigable Norman turns his attention to the other women in the house.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn.

Writer Ferdinand Dennis takes to the streets of NW10 to discover the sites and sounds of Harlesden and the Stonebridge Estate, in a journey from the Mean
Fiddler to Undivided Roots.
Producer Kate McAII

Contributors

Unknown:
Ferdinand Dennis
Producer:
Kate McAii

From Buddhist tracts to the Beatles - poets, politicians and priests have had their say about women. Tony Slattery and Haydn Gwynne present an anthology of abuse in four programmes. 1: From Eve On ...
'I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.'
(Dion Boucicault )
Producer Sara Conkey. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Slattery
Unknown:
Haydn Gwynne
Unknown:
Dion Boucicault
Producer:
Sara Conkey.

The second of a two-part exploration by Neville Teller of what Queen
Victoria believed about family life, and why. Making Marriages
Queen Victoria was an inveterate matchmaker - though not a notably successful one.
With Wendy Hiller as the Queen.
Narrator Alan Wheatley. Producer Graham Gauld. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Teller
Unknown:
Wendy Hiller
Narrator:
Alan Wheatley.
Producer:
Graham Gauld.

A Seat on the Board
It sounds like the ultimate career step - but what exactly is the role of a company director? Is it a privileged and easy ride - or have the responsibilities begun to weigh heavily?
Presented by Peter Day.

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Day.

Nigel Forde meets prolific novelist Stan Barstow , and discovers the contents of his bookshelf.
And Margaret Forster discusses her new novel, The Battle for Christabel.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Stan Barstow
Unknown:
Margaret Forster

The last in the series of non-fictional readings. A Short Walk from Harrods
Dirk Bogarde surveys the full circle that has brought him back to London.
Abridged from a piece in the Independent on Sunday Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Director:
Janet Whitaker

During the Second World War, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, near Denver in the USA, developed and produced napalm and mustard gas.
Paradoxically, 50 years on, 'the most polluted spot on earth' is also a unique wildlife reserve and a prime site for the endangered mascot of America - the Bald Eagle. Presented by Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm.

Contributors

Presented By:
Fergus Keeling
Presented By:
Jessica Holm.

A dramastised reconstruction of events in the final weeks of the Second World War, when ten of Germany's top physicists were held in a farmhouse in England.
Why were they held? Why were their conversations secretly recorded? (The tapes are still classified.) The news of Hiroshima astonished them. Were they reluctant servants of the Reich or just slower than their American counterparts?

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