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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.
10: The Shape of Things to Come
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:
Uncle Silas and all that
H. E. BATES , the novelist and short-story writer, talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life
Potato Fare: GEORGE VILLIERS visits the Potato Marketing Board stand at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia
Met on Holiday: a series by LESLIE GARDINER. 5: Fr. Egan raises the wind f Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
H. E. Bates
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
George Villiers
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 Samuel Pepys Elizabeth Proud , Terence Longdon
5: The Dancing Lesson
December 1662: Sam Pepys 's domestic life at Seething Lane is not all plain sailing. But Sam learns it is safer to enquire into his wife's housekeeping than to meddle with the private lives of ' those in high places.'
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:
Samuel Pepys
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Unknown:
Terence Longdon
Unknown:
Sam Pepys
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Produced By:
Derek Smith
Samuel Pepys:
Derek Smith
Elizabeth PEPYS:
Elizabeth Proud
Watchman:
Alan Dudley
Sir John Minnes:
Alan Dudley
Will Hewer:
Christopher Bidmead
Bailiff:
Ronald Herdman
Master Pembleton:
Rolf Lefebvre
Lord Sandwich:
Terence Longdon
King Charles:
John Justin
Barbara Castlemaine:
Rosalind Shanks
Jane:
Alexa Romanes
Master Moore:
Haydn Jones
Duke of York:
Ian Thompson

A 'lost Empire' is a puzzle of undying interest. That of the Hittites is a particularly intriguing subject, since these people were mentioned both in the Old Testament and by the Ancient Egyptians. Not until this century was their capital city discovered.
LEONARD COTTRELL tells the story of how the archaeologists rediscovered this civilisation which flourished more than 3,000 years ago
Those taking part:
JILL Balcon , ANDREW FAULDS FELIX FELTON , BASIL JONES
Written, narrated, and produced by LEONARD COTTRELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Cottrell
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Andrew Faulds
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
Leonard Cottrell

† ALAN Rudrum , an Englishman working in the University of California, reflects in the light of his experience there on the prospects for higher education here.
His title is drawn from misgivings once expressed by Kingsley Amis: More Means Worse '.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Rudrum

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† WALTER JAMES 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 James

BBC CHORUS
JOHN BURDEN (horn)
ANDREW MCGAVIN (horn)
RENATA SCHEFFEL-STEIN (harp)
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN
Sixth in a series including all the motets of Brahms. Ich aber bin elend: March 28

Contributors

Horn:
John Burden
Horn:
Andrew McGavin
Harp:
Renata Scheffel-Stein
Conductor:
Peter Gellhorn

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