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The Concert programme is broadcasting a series, “Towards a Social Policy,” in parallel with the hearings of the Commission on Social Policy,six eminent people give their views on what is necessary for social welfare and for establishing greater equality and justice in society. In today’s programme (8 p.m.) Professor Michael Cooper, a specialist in health economics and chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, discusses health wants and health costs. The interviewer is Keith Ovenden.
Tonight’s play, “Buffet,” on the Concert Pro-, gramme (9 p.m.), is a comedy by Rhys Adrian about a middle-class businessman’s efforts to cope with economic crisis and middle age. It stars Richard Briers and Irene Sutcliffe, and comes from the 8.8. C.
In the second programme in the series, “The English Tongue,”the British actor, Bernard Miles, who is well-known for his authentic dialect character parts, looks at English abroad. (National, tomorrow, 9.05 p.m.) The programme recalls the early years of the seventeenth century, when the English language went abroad for the first time, with the settlers who made new homes on the North American continent and in the islands of the West Indies.
The programme illustrates how changes in the language were brought about by historical changes and by the impact of a new way of life. Niall Coster, guidance counsellor at . Burnside High School, will be the guest on the “Mike Minehan Show” on Radi Avon tomorrow afternoon. The subjects for discussion are study skills for
teenagers and changes to the School Certificate and Sixth-form Certificate. Community care for the mentally ill will be discussed on the programme on Wednesday, when the guests will be Dr Les Ding, medical superintendent at Sunnyside Hospital, and Claud Sisson, of the Pegasus Trust Wednesday is Canada’s national day, and to mark the occasion the Concert Programme will broadcast a recording of Canadian Music from a performance given at Notre Dame Basilica, Ottawa, last year. —John Hickey
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