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Children and Primary Schools
4: Downtown and Up-country
The 1967 Plowden Report on Primary Education suggested that educational priority areas should be named and given special help. But how are teachers coping at present in districts with great social problems and with antiquated schools.
Introduced by WILLEM VAN DER EYKEN
Produced by Peter Jarvis

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Introduced By:
Willem van Der Eyken
Produced By:
Peter Jarvis

The songwriter, who has been associated with Tin Pan Alley for nearly forty years and written nearly two thousand songs, remembers some of his own hits and those of other composers he most admires. Produced by Helen Fry
Broadcast on September 5 (Light)

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Produced By:
Helen Fry

Odette: ODETTE HALLOWES, G.C., talks to John Ellison about the turning points in her life
Ninety Not Out!: A. A. THOMSON talks about the famous Yorkshire and England all-rounder Wilfred Rhodes
Dial a Meal: George Villiers talks to CAROLINE RUSSEL RENNIE, who organises the G.P O. recipe service
Drop us a line: Your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

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Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
A. A. Thom
Unknown:
Wilfred Rhodes
Talks:
George Villiers
Unknown:
Caroline Russel
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

A Small Piece of Paradise
The book by Geoffrey Morgan adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author
Read by RICHARD HURNDALL
3: The Promise
In a desperate attempt to save the house and garden, Joe, accompanied by Tinker, his pet weasel, calls on Arnold Massiter , but the property tycoon is out and in a scrimmage with the butler Tinker escapes into the garden. Mrs, Massiter and the domestic staff join in the search for the animal. Joe eventually catches it in the pool. but not before Massiter himself arrives on the scene.

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Book By:
Geoffrey Morgan
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Unknown:
Arnold Massiter

The case histories of a remarkable detective
Written by DONALD STUART starring William Franklyn with Heather Chasen , David Gregory The Enchanted Editor
Characters tn order of speaking:
Signature tune composed by Frank Chacksfield
Devised for radio by Philip Ridgeway
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

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Written By:
Donald Stuart
Unknown:
William Franklyn
Unknown:
Heather Chasen
Unknown:
David Gregory
Composed By:
Frank Chacksfield
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Sexton Blake:
William Franklyn
Tinker:
David Gregory
Paula Dane:
Heather Chasen
Alexander Pendleton:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Macintyre:
Beth Boyd
Ann Croxley:
Stan Davies
Mary Pendleton:
Betty Hardy
Detective Chief Inspector Coutts:
Wilfrid Carter
Joseph Leopold:
Humphrey Morton

The distinguished Spanish guitarist plays on his own specially-made ten-string guitar
Part of a recital given tn the Queen Elizabeth Hall on October 8 Narciso Yepes broadcasts by arrangement with Christopher Hunt , Ltd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Narciso Yepes
Unknown:
Christopher Hunt

A radio portrait of Ouida by Joanna Richardson
A hundred years ago, in October 1867, Under Two Flags established Ouida as the most popular novelist of her generation. Whether she was in her suite at the Langham Hotel, in her eleventh-century villa near Florence, or in her squalid rooms at Viareggio, her life was as extravagant and flamboyant as her fiction. with Nigel Anthony , David Brierley Alan Dudley , Haydn Jones Harold Kasket , Gudrun Ure tProduced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Robin Bailey is appearing in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' at the Saville Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Harold Kasket
Unknown:
Gudrun Ure
Unknown:
Douglas Cleverdon
Unknown:
Robin Bailey
Ouida:
Nancy Nevinson
Elizabeth Lee:
Betty Hardy
The Hon Bertie Cecil:
Julian Glover
Cigarette:
Janette Richer
Lady Paget:
Carol Marsh
Narrator:
Robin Bailey

Professor Hermann Bondi talks to
JOHN MADDOX
Editor of Nature and ELIZABETH GARD
Hermann Bondi was until recently Professor of Applied Mathematics at King's College, London. He now has three years' leave of absence from King's College and on November 1 he will be taking up the Director-Generalship of the European Space Research Organisation in Paris.

Contributors

Talks:
Professor Hermann Bondi
Unknown:
John Maddox
Unknown:
Elizabeth Gard
Unknown:
Hermann Bondi

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