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Today's story:
The Many Mice of Mr Brice written by THEO LE SEIG illustrated by ROY MCKIE Presenters this week
Sarah Long , Stuart McGugan
iBook; More Stories from Play School, B5p, from bookshops. The Tale of a (Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from 'Play School, record (REC 232) il.79, or cassette (MRMC 045) 11.95; Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away record (REC 242) 11.95, or cassette (MRMC 004) 11.95, from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Brice
Written By:
Theo Le Seig
Illustrated By:
Roy McKie
Unknown:
Sarah Long
Unknown:
Stuart McGugan

Ten programmes for physically disabled people.
2: The State will provide?
CORBET WOODALL and JILL LUMB explore some of the anomalies and injustices in the statutory provisions for disabled people, with ALF MORRIS , MP, Minister for the Disabled, and PETER LARGE of the Disablement Income Group.
Series producer IAN WOOLF Producer CHARLES PASCOE (First shoion on BBC 1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Corbet Woodall
Unknown:
Alf Morris
Unknown:
Peter Large
Producer:
Charles Pascoe

A series of ten programmes
2: What Have we Done? (part 2)
Engineering and technology - the requirements of manufacturing industry-are accorded little prestige in the British educational system. SIR ALEX SMITH , Director of Manchester Polytechnic, develops last week's argument further and discusses his analysis with STUART MACLURE , Editor of The Times Educational Supplement, and PETER BROWN , a Deputy Head-master.
Producer ROGER OWEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alex Smith
Unknown:
Stuart MacLure
Unknown:
Peter Brown
Producer:
Roger Owen

Aspects of Delinquency
A series of ten programmes Introduced by LAURIE TAYLOR
Professor of Sociology, University of York
3: Of Course There's a Cause ... ' Some forms of delinquency strike us as pointless and irrational. There's something we can't understand about them. And that's why we search for causes ... Criminologists have begun to throw doubt on the whole idea of searching for new factors. They've begun to realise that traditional delinquency factors don't operate just like push-buttons ... '
Producer GORDON CROTON
Book (same title) 85p, from bookshops

Contributors

Introduced By:
Laurie Taylor
Producer:
Gordon Croton

Ten programmes about communicating through the spoken word. Talking to the Doctor
Most of us think of doctors as authority figures. Is that why we find it so difficult to talk to them? The Chairman of the Patients' Association, JEAN ROBINSON , sociologist JOHN L. ANDERSON and a family doctor take a look at the problem and give some practical advice.
With PRUNELLA SCALES and GORDON SALKILLD
Narrated by DENYS HAWTHORNE
Producer BERNARD ADAMS Director SUSANNA CAPON
(Wordpower Correspondence Course is published with this series. Details from CACO, [address removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Robinson
Unknown:
John L. Anderson
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Bernard Adams
Director:
Susanna Capon

A Chess Tournament
Presented by Jeremy James
* This seems very aggressive to me -he's going to play his rook ... try and deal a knockout on the King's side. He's evidently going to show that he's a Grandmaster and knock me out straight away ...' Chess writer and expert PETER CLARKE faces a formidable task in tonight's game against TONY MILES, Britain's first and the World's youngest Grandmaster. Round 1, Game 4
Tony Miles , who has recently won important tournaments in Amsterdam and Stockholm v
Peter Clarke , Russian specialist and master of defensive play Expert analysis by Leonard Barden
Designer JOHN BONE
Director GEOFF WALMSLEY Producer ROBERT TONER

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Peter Clarke
Unknown:
Tony Miles
Unknown:
Peter Clarke
Unknown:
Leonard Barden
Designer:
John Bone
Director:
Geoff Walmsley
Producer:
Robert Toner

Tonight: The 19708
Decimal coinage - power cuts - Harvey Smith - streakers - the 70s pop scene including The Osmonds and the Bay City Rollers - Olympic gold medallist John Curry - Dame Vera Lynn - the drought of 76. MAX sings hit songs of the 70s, among them ' Happy Heart' and ' Tie a Yellow Ribbon'. with the DOUGIE SQUIRES DOZEN
THE EDDIE LESTER SINGERS
Musical director PETER KNIGHT Musical arrangements
PETER KNIGHT, ALAN ROPER
Choreography DOUGIE SQUIRES Written by ERIC DAVIDSON Costume JOYCE MORTLOCK Designer MICHAEL YOUNG Director STANLEY APPEL Producer JOHN AMMONDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Harvey Smith
Unknown:
John Curry
Unknown:
Vera Lynn
Singers:
Eddie Lester
Written By:
Eric Davidson
Written By:
Costume Joyce Mortlock
Designer:
Michael Young
Director:
Stanley Appel
Producer:
John Ammonds

A serial in three parts 3: Dr Aveling's Dog by ANDREW DAVIES
AVELING: 'Keep your property then! Hoard your possessions! Will you sit on your money and see me imprisoned for debt? ' starring and Designer CHRIS PEMSEL Costume RITA REEKIE
Make-up JEAN STEWARD Producer Louis MARKS Director JANE HOWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davies
Designer:
Chris Pemsel
Designer:
Costume Rita Reekie
Director:
Jane Howell
Eleanor Marx:
Jennie Stoller
Dr Edward Aveling:
Alan Dobie
Lillian Richardson:
Isabelle Amyes
Freddy Demuth:
Philip Joseph
Will Thorne:
David Daker
Gertie:
Chris Range
Registrar:
Maurice Quick
Coroner:
Alan Dudley

A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
3: Karl Marx - The Massive Dissent ' If conservatives knew how hard it is to have a revolution, they would be far less worried than they are about the danger. They are far, far safer than they know.'
A ferment of argument, a torrent of words, the life and work of Karl Marx set the pattern for socialist future. But the revolution he so much wanted did not materialise in his lifetime.
Film cameramen
PHIL MEHEUX, HENRY FARRAR Film editor JIM LATHAM Producer DICK GILLING
Executive producer ADRIAN MALONE
(A printed version of this programme will be in THE LISTENER this week)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Kenneth Galbraith
Unknown:
Karl Marx
Unknown:
Karl Marx
Unknown:
Henry Farrar
Editor:
Jim Latham
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Producer:
Adrian Malone

Saliva Milkshake by HOWARD BRENTON based on Under Western Eyes by JOSEPH CONRAD
' I couldn't say no. She trusted me. She'd told me she was.... murderer, assassin, criminal.... terrorist.'
Sharp, original, and tellingly done
(THE GUARDIAN)
Producer MARK SHIVAS
Director ROBERT KNIGHTS

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Producer:
Mark Shivas
Director:
Robert Knights
Martin:
Michael Harbour
Joan:
Rosalind Ayres
Raffety:
Julian Curry
Johnny:
Donald Sumpter
Sir Robert:
Edmond Bennett

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