Today's story is "Old Toby and the Hedgehog" by Karl Williams Illustrated by Nicholas Sweetland
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Rick Jones

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with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Gay Hamilton, Timothy Tufnell and Frank Muir, Judy Cornwell, George Benson
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
(Bank Holiday People: page 5)

Professor Derek Bryce-Smith presents his views on Health Hazards from Lead Pollution
As far as lead is concerned there is no other chemical pollutant which has accumulated in man so close to the threshold of clinical poisoning.
About 90 per cent of the lead in the air comes from exhaust fumes of cars. Complete abolition of lead additives to petrol would do more than anything else to reduce our present harmful absorption of lead and the legacy of this insidious poison which we shall be passing on to our children. These views are discussed before an audience at the Royal Institution by Professor Bryce-Smith with a number of people who disagree with his ideas, including representatives of the petroleum and lead industries and medical authorities on lead poisoning.
Introduced by Professor George Porter

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by Derek Hoddinott
Geoffrey works in a small, gloomy office at the Ministry where no one comes to see him and where the phone doesn't ring. Arriving one day he finds waiting for him a pretty young girl called Sheila. She is his new secretary, and life suddenly takes a new turn.
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A short diversion, filmed on a summer's day, with two veteran cars, three motorists and five girls.

The wacky and wonderful comic strip world created by Al Capp in a film starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stubby Kaye, Howard St John, Julie Newmar, Stella Stevens

The hillbilly area of Dogpatch is selected as a testing area for atomic bombs because it is 'the most useless place in America.' Its only salvation lies in finding something 'necessary' about the town. All seems lost until Mammy Yokum produces her Yokumberry Tonic, the mixture that has made Abner the outstanding physical specimen he is.

Based on Al Capp's legendary cartoon strip, Li'l Abner is a unique blend of earthy humour and political satire. The film was adapted from one of Broadway's most successful musicals and features almost all the original cast from the stage production.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

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