Story: "Shadows" (traditional)

from the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead, Sussex. The closing stages of The Wills Embassy Gold Stakes

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In the first of three conversations with John Arlott, Sir Neville Cardus recalls his Manchester boyhood at the turn of the century and his career on the Guardian, for whom he has written on cricket and music since 1916.
(from Manchester)

A postman walks three hours across a marsh in northern Germany to deliver a single parcel. When he retires in a few months' time, he won't be replaced. In a profit conscious age, the West German Post Office can't afford it. Can public services survive? The Europeans have their doubts as we do in Great Britain. Reports from European television look at the costs of running them and what can be done.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Chairman David Jacobs
Panel, Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn, Anna Quayle and a guest celebrity

Professor C. B. Cox argues that The Notion of Equality is a Threat to Education

Equality of opportunity - of access to all levels of education based on merit - has to some extent been achieved. But some educationalists believe this is not enough, that it still leaves society divided into two unequal classes. They want 'education for fraternity' and the teaching of working-class culture in our schools which, they say, are dominated by middle-class values.

Professor Cox believes this notion of equality is a threat to the high culture and standards which education has traditionally provided. He argues his case before an invited audience in the theatre of the Royal Institution, London, with: Dr A.H. Halsey, Director of the Department of Social Studies, Oxford University, and other critics.
Chairman Professor Sir George Porter

by Jean Rhys
Dramatised by Alan Seymour
Six new plays showing the work of women writers, three set in the 30s and three in the 70s.
This week: The 30s: The Lotus
[Starring] Hermione Baddeley as Lotus Heath, Timothy Peters as Ronnie, Rosemary Blake as Christine

Entertaining Lotus Heath, the plump, boozy, wreck of a woman from the basement, is all very well. But, as Ronnie and Christine discover, there are limits...
When life was one long party: pages 8-9

Personalities and performances from the 27th Edinburgh International Festival

Second of two programmes on BBC2 presented by Mary Marquis and Donald MacCormick

with John Edmunds
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