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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.
5: The Exceptionally Gifted
Introduced by NORMAN EVANS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Evans
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Women from Victoria to the mini-skirt-the Franklin version
Fifty years ago this week women won the right to vote.
As part of his celebration DAVID FRANKLIN examines the position of ' the weaker sex' both before and after enfranchisement
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Seats of Power: Colin Jackson talks to CECIL KING , chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, which includes the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, The People, Woman, and some 230 other publications
Bay Called Godwit: another newsletter from New Zealand by JAMES McNEISH
Top Dogs: NICK HENDERSON talks to some of the breeders who will be entering their dogs for Crufts Dog Show at Olympia
Can You Tell Me?: LAURIE
SAPPER answers a mixed bag of legal questions

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Talks:
Colin Jackson
Unknown:
Cecil King
Unknown:
New Zealand
Unknown:
James McNeish
Talks:
Nick Henderson

The novel by Jules Verne adapted for radio in eight parts by Howard Jones.

The travellers are overwhelmed by a hurricane which drives them back to their starting-point. They find, close at hand, the road taken 300 years before by the alchemist Arne Saknussem - the road to the centre of the earth - but there is no way ahead. It is blocked by a huge mass of granite...

Contributors

Author:
Jules Verne
Adapted by:
Howard Jones
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Harry Lawson:
Bernard Horsfall
Professor von Hardwigg:
Geoffrey Banks
Hans Bjelke:
John Daglish

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
with Teddy Johnson
Steve Gardiner seems at last to be on the right lines in finding Gaye Simpson when he traces a necklace that belonged to her back to a Mrs. King-Cook, but she tells him the person who gave it to her is dead.

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Boyd
Producer:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Mrs King-Cook:
Eileen McCallum
Det-Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Judy Clark:
Janet Michael
First thug:
Alec Monteath
Second thug:
Richard Findlay
Honey Gorman:
John Grieve
Elfie:
Isobel Gardner
Fergus Jenkins:
Tom Watson

Sanchia Pielou (harp)
BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by Graham 'Treacher
Nuages; Fetes (Nocturnes)
7.46* Danse sacrée et danse profane, for harp and string orchestra
7.58* Three Symphonic Sketches:
La mer

Contributors

Leader:
Tom Rowlette
Conducted By:
Graham Treacher

Rock climbing is both one of the simplest and most challenging of outdoor activities you can learn at fifteen or at fifty. But what is its fascination and what are its techniques?
Instructors and pupils at the Glencoe Mountain School, and speakers as diverse as THE RT. HON. QUINTIN HOGG , m.p., THE Bishop OF LEtCESTER, and an eminent surgeon provide some of the answers
Produced by John Gray
See page 50

Contributors

Unknown:
Quintin Hogg
Produced By:
John Gray

MacDowell
In mid-ocean: Nautilus
(Sea Pieces)
Sonata No. 3, in D minor
(Norse) played by SHEILA RANDELL (piano)
Third of four programmes devoted to the piano sonatas of MacDowell. No. 4 (Keltic) played by Marjorie Mitchell : Feb. 22

Contributors

Piano:
Sheila Randell
Played By:
Marjorie Mitchell

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