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2: The Infant School
Starting school at the age of five can be a terrifying experience. Should full-time schooling start so early? And what sort of education is really needed by children between the ages of five and seven?
Introduced by WILLEM VAN DER EVKEN
Produced by Peter Jarvis
Broadcast on October 12. 1967

Contributors

Introduced By:
Willem van Der Evken
Produced By:
Peter Jarvis

' Landing on the Moon ' by H. G. Wells , and three poems: 'Seafarer ' by A. MacLeish , ' A slumber did my spirit seal' by William Wordsworth , and ' Acquainted with the Night' by Robert Frost
1 Listening and Writing series

Contributors

Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
A. MacLeish
Unknown:
William Wordsworth

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A family magazine introduced by MICHAEL BAGULEY from Northern Ireland
Back after twenty years: VIVIENNE ATKINSON meets her sister at the airport
Little grey home in the West: CHARLES WITHERSPOON buys a school in County Donegal
Meditations on a compost heap: META MAYNE REID talks about a load of old rubbish
Eternal Leprechaun: KEN McDoWELL describes the plight of the Irishman abroad
By bus to Trogir: a minor adventure in Yugoslavia by WENDY DEWAR DURIE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Baguley
Unknown:
Vivienne Atkinson
Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Unknown:
Ken McDowell
Unknown:
Wendy Dewar Durie

Two Years Before the Mast
The classic novel of the sea by RICHARD HENRY DANA arranged for radio in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by JOHN ROWE
8: Goodbye to California
Produced by Brian Hulme

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Henry Dana
Read By:
John Rowe
Produced By:
Brian Hulme

(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Bruno Milna
Editor:
Godfrey Baseley
Producer:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Hazel Trentham:
Hilary Armstrong
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Mrs Turvey:
Courtney Hope
Joan Burton:
Esma Wilson
Nigel Burton:
Bryan Kendrick
Juliet Burton:
Clare Dingle
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Betty Barratt:
Brenda Dunrich
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark

Dvorak
String Quintet in E flat major
Op. 47
BUDAPEST String QUARTET Joseph Roisman (violin)
Alexander Schneider (violin) Boris Kroyt (viola)
Mischa Schneider (cello) with Walter Trampler (viola) gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Joseph Roisman
Violin:
Alexander Schneider
Viola:
Boris Kroyt
Cello:
Mischa Schneider
Viola:
Walter Trampler

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