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Children with special needs
A series of ten programmes designed to give information for teachers on some recent thinking about the education of children who need special teaching, and to encourage parents by showing where this help is available.
3: Deaf and Blind Children
Introduced by NORMAN EVANS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Evans
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
On Stage: DEREK Nimmo talks to Rosemary Hart about his life and career
The Banded Krait: IAN HARRIS describes a savage encounter while digging a drain in Assam
From the Horse's Mouth:
KENNETH GREGORY gets inside the skin of a pantomime act
Thursday Topic-or, it's happening now
Drop us a line: your news. views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Talks:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Ian Harris
Unknown:
Kenneth Gregory

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The novel by Jules Verne adapted for radio in eight parts by HOWARD JONES
The travellers set sail on a raft on a great subterranean sea and witness a fearful battle between two prehistoric monsters. The victor, the Ichthyosaurus or Great Fish Lizard. has disappeared into the water-but will it reappear to destroy them?
6: The Hurricane
Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Novel By:
Jules Verne
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Harry Lawson:
Bernard Horsfall
Professor von Hardwigg:
Geoffrey Banks
Hans Bjelke:
John Dagllsh

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd with Teddy Johnson
Steve Gardiner Is In Glasgow to search for a missing girl. Gaye Simpson. He finds himself warned off both by the police and by an anonymous telephone voice. At the Gorman Arts Centre a man called Smith seems to have something to tell him, but when he goes to Smith's house Steve finds him dead. shot through the head.
PART 2
Produced by EDDIE FRASER

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Boyd
Unknown:
Teddy Johnson
Unknown:
Steve Gardiner
Unknown:
Gaye Simpson.
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Det -Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Judy Clark:
Janet Michael
Voice on the telephone:
Eric Wightman
Elfie:
Isobel Gardner
Fergus Jenkins:
Tom Watson
Angry young man:
Glen Michael

by Francis Watson and Maurice Brown
A programme to mark the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of the Mahatma drawn from the recorded memories of those who knew him in England and India The recorded voices of those taking part include:
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA H. S. SUHRAWARDY C. RAJAGOPALACHARI
P. C. GHOSH, ACHARYA KRIPALANI CHAMAN LAL, G. D. BIRLA
RAJA HUTHEESINGH , ZAKIR HUSAIN PYARELAL NAYAR , A. S. RAY N. K. BOSE , B. CHANDIWALA
K. SHRIDHARANI , SUDH[R GHOSH DEVADAS GANDHI , INDIRA GANDHI PADMAJA NAIDU , SUSHILA NAYAR RAJKUMARI AMRIT KAUR MIRABEN (MISS SLADE)
ERIC DA COSTA, MAURICE FRYDMAN Louis FISCHER , HORACE ALEXANDER IAN STEPHENS , ROBERT STIMSON
Edited and narrated by FRANCIS WATSON
Produced by Maurice Brown
This programme won the Italian Press Association's Documentary Prize in the 1957 Italia Prize contest: shortened version of the broadcast on December 2. 1956 (Third) See page 52

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Watson
Unknown:
Maurice Brown
Unknown:
G. D. Birla
Unknown:
Raja Hutheesingh
Unknown:
Zakir Husain
Unknown:
Pyarelal Nayar
Unknown:
A. S. Ray
Unknown:
N. K. Bose
Unknown:
B. Chandiwala
Unknown:
K. Shridharani
Unknown:
Ghosh Devadas Gandhi
Unknown:
Indira Gandhi
Unknown:
Padmaja Naidu
Unknown:
Sushila Nayar
Unknown:
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Unknown:
Maurice Frydman
Unknown:
Louis Fischer
Unknown:
Horace Alexander
Unknown:
Ian Stephens
Unknown:
Robert Stimson
Unknown:
Francis Watson
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

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