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Raikes' Progress

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A portrait of Robert Raikes , a founder of the Sunday School movement, compiled by BRIAN SIBLEY with Two hundred years ago Sunday Schools were started to provide religious instruction to the children of the poor; but their effect was far greater, because from these institutions grew the concept of general education for all. This programme examines the man who started one of the first of these Sunday Schools. With DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , CAROLE BOYD , EDWARD CAST, ALAN DUDLEY. MICHAEL MCSTAY , ROWENA ROBERTS , KENNETH SHANLEY , BRIAN SIBLEY , JEAN TREND, PHILIP VOSS , and the children of PICKLE-NASH PRIMARY SCHOOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Ballad sung by JOHN FOREMAN Producer CHRIS REES

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Raikes
Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell
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Carole Boyd
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Alan Dudley.
Unknown:
Michael McStay
Unknown:
Rowena Roberts
Unknown:
Kenneth Shanley
Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Sung By:
John Foreman
Producer:
Chris Rees
Robert Raikes:
Dinsdale Landen

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