Story: "Bits and Pieces goes to Pudding Lane" by Frances Lindsay
Guest storyteller Sam Kydd
(5.50-6.15 Closedown)
(6.40-7.5 Closedown)
Weather
In 1902 Sir Neville Cardus saw Victor Trumper score a century before lunch. Seventy years later his interest in cricket is undiminished. In this conversation with John Arlott he recalls the many great cricketers he has seen and reflects on the present state of the game.
(from Manchester)
(27 September: Cardus On Music)
This month the two Germanys will become members of the United Nations. How the West Germans see their role in the future of world affairs, and particularly in relations with the Common Market and the Eastern bloc, will be looked at with film and comment from West Germany.
Introduced by Derek Hart
Chairman David Jacobs
Panel, Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn and Anna Quayle and a guest celebrity
Herman Kahn argues that Boom is more likely than Doom
What are the prospects for mankind? Are we heading for doom on a planet poisoned by pollution, gutted of resources, over-populated and starving - or are we on the verge of universal prosperity? A reassuring answer comes from Herman Kahn, the world's most influential 'futurologist'. He runs the Hudson Institute, a scientific 'think tank' near New York, and is adviser to the governments of the United States, France and Japan. His latest prediction is staggeringly optimistic: given 'moderately reasonable behaviour,' by the 21st century a world population of 40 billions could be enjoying an income of £4,000 per head - the present US average. All this can be achieved by using present technology. As for resources and energy, there will always be enough: the world is not a 'fixed bowl' but an ever-expanding one...
Herman Kahn argues his case in the theatre of the Royal Institution, London, with: Andrew Shonfield, Director, Royal Institute for International Affairs; Dr E. Fritz Schumacher, former chief economist to the National Coal Board; Kenneth Mellanby, Director, Nature Conservancy's Monks Wood Experimental Station; and an invited audience
Chairman Professor Sir George Porter
(Colour)
by Jill Hyem
Six new plays showing the work of women writers, three set in the 30s and three in the 70s.
This week: The 70s: Equal Terms
[Starring] Judy Parfitt as Mary, Ann Davies as Imogen
Friendship with a client requires more than just a few conventional gestures, as a newly appointed social worker finds out. It can only begin on equal terms...
with John Edmunds; Weather
