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• Kidnap plot warning to cricket club

  [Full Text]: "A warning of an alleged plot by anti-apartheid demonstrators to kidnap Mr. Jack Baddiley, chairman of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, was telephoned to Mr. Ron Poulton, the club secretary, yesterday. He treated it as a joke but his caller, a man with an educated voice, told him: "It's no laughing matter." The police, however, took the threat seriously, and set out to find Mr. Baddiley, who was working on his 1,000-acre farm at Worksop. A police spokesman said later that special precautions were being taken. Wilson in race complaint. The Prime Minister and six other men were named in a complaint laid at Bow Street police station yesterday under the 1965 Race Relations Act. Mr. Peter Tombs, of Evans Road, Eynsham. Oxfordshire, a writer, said statements inciting unlawful race discrimination had been made on the B.B.C.'s Panorama programme by Mr. Wilson, Mr. John Arlott, Mr. Peter Hain, Mr. Jeffrey Crawford, the Bishop of Woolwich, the Right Rev. David Sheppard, Mr. Denis Brutus and Mr John Darragh."
• BBC1

  "Great Railway Journeys. London to Arcadia. With Ben Okri"
• Radio 3

  "9.05 Midweek. Presented by Esther Rantzen, with Brian Hayes and author Ben Okri."
• Radio

  "9.00 News: Devout skeptics. Bel Mooney meets the renowned writer Ben Okri."
• Radio

  "10.00 The Brain Trust. Professor Ludmilla Jardonvoe, Professor John Carey, novelist Ben Okri and theologian Tom Wright join Joan Bakewell to discuss listeners' questions."
• Radio

  "10.00 Work In Progress: Ben Okri. The novelist and poet discusses a work
• The intellectuals and the masses

  "Salt is confident that he's come up with a comparable set of thinkers - de Bono, Miller, Jardine, Ben Okri and Richard Dawkins."
• Radio

  "Devout Skeptics. Bel Mooney's explorations of people with spiritual hunger and s distrust of traditional religion were fill-ins that did well last summer."
• Radio

  "10.00 Brains Trust. Joan Bakewell chairs the discussion programme with guests Ben Okri, Professor Steven Rose, Angela Tilby, and Theodore Zeldin."
• BBC1

  "8:50. Song for Rwanda. A poem by ben Okri"
• Friday 9 October

  "Ben Okri (BBC2, 11pm)
• Radio

  "7.05. Third Ear; guest, Ben Okri"
• Main Channel Friday 1 April

  "9.15 The Verb. The poet and novelist Ben Okri reads a new commission."
• Radio

  "Ken SaroWiwa, R4 12.30am"
• World Service

  "10.30. The Play of the Week: A Month and A Day. Drama based on the diaries written during his imprisonment by the executed Nigerian writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa."
• Tuesday 5 November

  "4:45 Short Story: Dilemma by Ken Saro-Wiwa"