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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.
7: Special Help to Special Needs introduced by NORMAN EVANS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Evans
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
1 Going to the Panto: AMANDA
THEUNISSEN attends a matinee in Bristol and talks to WYN CALVIN and some of the audience
From Magic Lantern to
' Silent ' Screen: MARGARET LEDGER relives the early days of going to the pictures
Met on Holiday: a series by LESLIE GARDINER. 2: The Man from Crete
Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Wyn Calvin
Unknown:
Leslie Gardiner.

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 Pepys Terence Longdon
2: Music for the King
April 1660: Having obtained the post of Secretary to the General at Sea (none other than his influential cousin Sir Edward Montagu ) Sam is literally launched on his career In the Navy and is now aboard the ' Naseby ' ready to sail to Deal.
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Derek Smith is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Pepys
Dramatised By:
A. R. Rawlinson
Unknown:
Derek Smith
Unknown:
Pepys Terence Longdon
Unknown:
Sir Edward Montagu
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Produced By:
Derek Smith
Samuel Pepys:
Derek Smith
Sir Edward MontaKU:
Terence Longdon
Captain Cuttance:
Victor Lucas
Bo'sun:
Alan Dudley
Master Phillips:
Ronald Herdman
Rear-Admiral Penn:
Roi F Lefebvre
Shepley:
Haydn Jones
King Charles:
John Justin
Duke of York:
Ian Thompson
William Coventry:
Peter Pratt
General Monk:
Ralph Truman
Mayor of Dover:
Preston Lockwood

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd with Teddy Johnson
Gaye Simpson 's whereabouts have at last been established, but Steve Gardiner still has many things to clear up.
PART 6
Produced by EDDIE FRASER

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Boyd
Unknown:
Teddy Johnson
Unknown:
Gaye Simpson
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Judy Clark:
Janet Michael
Lindsay:
June Andrews
Ronald Avory:
Bryden Murdoch
Detective-Inspector Gordon:
Moultrie R Kelsall
Honey Gorman:
John Grieve
Fergus Jenkins:
Tom Watson
Eltie:
Isobel Gardner
Mrs Avory:
Helena Gloag

by DR. MAGNUS PYKE F.R.S.E.
Getting your astronaut into orbit is difficult enough. But once there he has to be fed and kept happy. and his sanitary problems attended to. How? This is the subject of Dr. Pyke's talk.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Magnus Pyke F.R.S.E.

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]. extension [number removed] and dictate your message

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

MacDowell
Novelette (Twelve Virtuoso Studies) To a water-lily; Will o' the wisp
(Woodland Sketches)
Sonata No. 4, in E nunoi
(Keltic) played by MARJORIE MITCHELL (piano)
Last of four programmes devoted to the piano sonatas of MacDowcii

Contributors

Piano:
Marjorie Mitchell

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