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"Milly-Molly-Mandy Gets Up Early" by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Told by Anne Cunningham
Presenters this week: Chloe Ashcroft, Brian Cant

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author (Milly-Molly-Mandy Gets Up Early):
Joyce Lankester Brisley
Storyteller:
Anne Cunningham
Presenter:
Chloe Ashcroft
Presenter:
Brian Cant

From Finland, a comedy programme that can only be described as a 'Finnish Brainstorm'!
The winner of the Bronze Rose Award at this year's Montreux Festival, starring
Heikki Kinnunen, Leo Lastumaki
with Pirjo Viitanen, M.A. Numminen and Olavi Ahonen

Contributors

Producer/Director:
Vesa Nuotio
Producer/Director:
Peritti Reponen
Performer:
Heikki Kinnunen
Performer:
Leo Lastumaki
Performer:
Pirjo Viitanen
Performer:
M.A. Numminen
Performer:
Olavi Ahonen

"I suppose the equivalent would be to cut off a person's hands because he was violent" (Dr Peter Breggin)

Ever since surgery on the brain was first used to relieve psychological disorders it has aroused the strongest of feelings. Even today, when the modern leucotomy destroys much less of the brain and many doctors argue that it is precise and beneficial particularly as a last resort operation, the criticisms still continue.

It's claimed that it can never be accurate, that it blunts the emotions and that, in addition, disturbing facts have come to light about how this kind of surgery is actually being used. Doctors in America have developed it to control violent behaviour and in Californian prisons at least three of these operations have been performed on violent convicts. More are planned.

A furious controversy started after a prison psychiatrist resigned from the project. Will the operation be used as a threat, not only to criminals but to political militants? Has 'Clockwork Orange' finally arrived?

('End psychosurgery now': page 3)

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Producer:
Allan Segal

by John Bowen
with Barbara Leigh Hunt as Harriet, David Cook as Paul

Two strangers discover that they have shared the same experience. And this has led them both to the waiting-room...
[Repeat]

Contributors

Writer:
John Bowen
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Robert Knights
Harriet:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Paul:
David Cook
Man:
Peter Bennett
Cleaner:
Ann Way

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