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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.
6: The Disturbed and Disturbing
Introduced by NORMAN EVANS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Evans
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Met on Holiday: a new series by LESLIE GARDINER. 1: Princess of Calabria Cordon Rouge: GEORGE VIL
LIERS suggests another of his special recipes
Talking Point: another in the series of conversations on an issue of the day
Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Leslie Gardiner.
Unknown:
George Vil

Such Men Are Rare
A series of plays which tell of the rise to fame and fortune of Samuel Pepys adapted and dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON from the Diary with Derek Smith as Samuel Pepys Terence Longdon , Elizabeth Proud
PART 1: Foot on the Ladder
January 1. 1660: Sam Pepys. employed as a clerk in the Treasury. has great difficulty in managing on a salary of £ 50 a year. In the City of London the political situation is much disturbed. On both counts Sam's only hope for security is his influential cousin. Sir Edward Mon tagu.
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Derek Smith is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
See page 50

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Unknown:
Samuel Pepys
Dramatised By:
A. R. Rawlinson
Unknown:
Derek Smith
Unknown:
Samuel Pepys
Unknown:
Terence Longdon
Unknown:
Sam Pepys.
Unknown:
Sir Edward Mon
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Produced By:
Derek Smith
Samuel Pepys:
Derek Smith
Elizabeth Pepys:
Elizabeth Proud
Jane:
Alexa Romanes
Probate clerk:
Michael Harbour
Hawley:
Nigel Clayton
Bowyer:
Alexander John
Master Downing:
Preston Lockwood
Master Crew:
Lockwood West
Shepley:
Haydn Jones
Landlord's daughter:
Carol Marsh
Sir Edward Montagu:
Terence Longdon
John Pepys:
John Wyse
Mrs Pepys:
Betty Hardy
Pall PEPYS:
Carol Marsh

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd with Teddy Johnson
It begins to be clear why so many people are trying to prevent Steve Gardiner finding Gaye Simpson when a package turns up addressed to her and containing heroin.
PART 5
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
Judy Clark:
Janet Michael
Honey Gorman:
John Grieve
Det -Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Carraday:
Eric Wightman
Elfie:
Isobel Gahdner
Fergus Jenkins:
Tom Watson
Gaye Simpson:
Doris McLatchie
A passer-by:
Walter Jackson

' Salome ' and the Black Book
I shall prove that the play Salome is immoral and impure in itself, and calculated to be harmful to public morality and to purity in public life
NOEL PEMBERTON BILLING, M.P.
Written by ARTHUR SWINSON
Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Pemberton
Written By:
Arthur Swinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Noel Pemberton Billing:
William Fox
Mr Justice Darling:
Cyril Luckham
Miss Maud Allan:
Alexa Romanes
Mr Hume-Williams:
David Mahlowe
Mrs Eleanor Villiers-Stuart:
Elizabeth Tyrrell
Capt Harold Spencer:
Denis McCarthy
Dr Arthur Cooke:
Ronald Harvi
Lord Alfred Douglas:
Denys Hawthorne
Mr J T Grein:
Alan Dudley
Narrator:
Geoffrey Banks

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For very late letters you can ring ([number removed]and dictate your message

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

BBC Radio 4 FM

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