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The Child in Your Care
A series of ten programmes on child development, linked with the in-service study course prepared for residential staff by the Central Training Council for Child Care.
7: The Imaginative Life
What is the value of play to the child, and what are the kinds of play fantasy and imaginative thinking to be expected from children of different ages who are functioning normally?
A discussion of some actual scenes of spontaneous play among children of different age-groups by HANSI KENNEDY , child psychotherapist and DR. PENELOPE LEACH
Produced by Dennis Simmons

Contributors

Unknown:
Hansi Kennedy
Unknown:
Dr. Penelope Leach
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

A comedy
Barefoot in the Park starring
JANE FONDA , ROBERT REDFORD
CHARLES BOYER , MILDRED NATWICK
Adapted by Lyn Fairhurst
Introduced by GORDON Gow
Produced by Tony Luke
Broadcast on Sept. 22 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Fonda
Unknown:
Robert Redford
Unknown:
Charles Boyer
Unknown:
Mildred Natwick
Adapted By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Introduced By:
Gordon Gow
Produced By:
Tony Luke

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Wish I were a Granny: Patricia Lindsay finds problems as a 'mother of two'
An Irish Chestnut: Jack Jennings, a visitor from Wales, runs to earth an Ulster legend Keeping Your Hair On: Gwen Nevill discusses the problems of wearing a wig
Forty Fluid Ounces: Colonel Bobby Scott recalls an attempt to reduce the weight of Fusilier McGorrian in time for the Regimental Boxing Championships
Donegal Magic by Sheila St. Clair
Irish Songs by Brian Connors
Introduced by Maurice O'Callaghan from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Lindsay
Unknown:
Jack Jen
Unknown:
Bobby Scott
Unknown:
Fusilier McGorrian
Songs By:
Brian Connors
Introduced By:
Maurice O'Callaghan

A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley adapted by KERI LEWIS
Storyteller, PATRICIA GREENE
One day Penelope went upstairs at Thackers Farm and found herself in a part of the house that was unfamiliar. The people she met there were unfamiliar too, for she had travelled back in time to the Elizabethan Thackers.
2: The Queen's Locket
Produced by Anthony Cornish from the Midlands

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Uttley
Adapted By:
Keri Lewis
Unknown:
Patricia Greene
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish

Latest regional news — The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling — This week's Name in the News— Sports Spot-FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by COLIN HAMILTON Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Introduced By:
Colin Hamilton

Contributors

Written by:
Bruno Milna
Edited by:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced by:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Anthony William Daniel Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Matthew Wreford:
Max Brimmell
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Harold Gadsby:
Arnold Peters
Fiona Watson:
Carole Boyd
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
PC Drury:
John Baddeley
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood

asks Ken Sykora with the help of sounds, voices, and music from the BBC Sound Archives
Trying to get the answers: Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Eleanor Summerfield, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Contributors

Presenter:
Ken Sykora
Panellist:
Alan Bennett
Panellist:
Jonathan Miller
Panellist:
Eleanor Summerfield
Panellist:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Producer:
David Allan

with Nicholas Parsons
Written by PETER MYERS and RONNIE CASS and featuring
DENISE BRYER and BOB TODD with BARRY CRYER and PETER REEVES
Music by the TONY OSBORNE GROUP
Series created by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot
Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Nicholas Parsons and Bob Todd are in Uproar in the House ' at the Whitehall Theatre: Peter Reeves In
' Mrs. Wilson's Diary ' at the Criterion Theatre. London
Repeated: Sunday, 9.30 p.m. on Radio 2 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Written By:
Peter Myers
Written By:
Ronnie Cass
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Bob Todd
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Tony Osborne
Unknown:
Anthony Marriott
Unknown:
Alistair Foot
Produced By:
John Bridges
Produced By:
Nicholas Parsons
Produced By:
Bob Todd
Unknown:
Peter Reeves

by Peter Fleming
In April 1941 the British Forces In Greece were short of ammunition. Peter Fleming volunteered to get an ammunition train out of Larissa from which the Allies were retreating. Unfortunately neither he nor his men had ever driven a train before....
(Previously broadcast Nov. 11, 1949)

Contributors

Speaker:
Peter Fleming

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by DONALD McLACHLAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald McLachlan

BBC Radio 4 FM

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