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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Radio 4 Appeal: Contact a Family]]></title>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Editor's note: last year listeners gave over £1.5 Million to the weekly Radio 4 Appeals. Here, producer Sally Flatman highlights this week's appeal, from Muriel Gray - SB  Please take 5 minutes to listen to Muriel Gray talking about a wonderful charity called Contact a Family. Listeners' donatio...]]></summary>
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      <name>Sally Flatman</name>
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    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Editor's note: last year listeners gave over £1.5 Million to the weekly Radio 4 Appeals. Here, producer Sally Flatman highlights this week's appeal, from Muriel Gray - SB&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please take 5 minutes to listen to Muriel Gray talking about a wonderful charity called Contact a Family. Listeners' donations to this charity could make a difference to hundreds of families who are bringing up a disabled child. Take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.cafamily.org.uk/"&gt;the charity's web site&lt;/a&gt; where families, who are, as Muriel explains, often very isolated, are put in touch with others who are facing the same challenges and given support and advice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In her Appeal Muriel describes how Contact a Family has been a lifeline to many families with disabled children over the last 30 years and appeals for donations to ensure their work with often vulnerable families continues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to Muriel talking about the experience of families of disabled children:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--#include virtual="/radio/ssitools/simple_emp/emp_v1.sssi?Network=radio4&amp;Brand=blog&amp;Media_ID=appealgray&amp;Type=audio&amp;width=600" --&gt;&lt;p&gt;And listen to the appeal in full &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s54d0"&gt;on the Radio 4 web site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sally Flatman is producer of the Radio 4 Appeal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnc7"&gt;Radio 4 Appeal&lt;/a&gt; is on-air every Sunday at XXXX and repeated at 1530 on Thursday. &lt;strong&gt;Make a donation &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s54d0"&gt;via the Radio 4 web site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The picture shows Janet, Paul and Alice (age 12). There are more pictures from Contact a Family &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s54d0"&gt;on the Radio 4 web site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://www.cafamily.org.uk/"&gt;Contact a Family web site&lt;/a&gt; or the charity's &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/contactafamily"&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; to learn more.&lt;/li&gt;
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