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4: DOwntown and Up Country
The 1967 Plowden Report on Primary Education suggested that educational priority areas should be named and given special help. But how are teachers coping at present in districts with great social problems and with antiQuated schools?
Introduced by WILLEM VAN DER EYKEN
Produced by Peter Jarvis
Broadcast on October 26, 1967

Contributors

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

by Her Majesty Queen Victoria (pub. 1868).
Written for radio by Joanna Richardson and produced by David Davis with Jean Anderson as Queen Victoria supported by Duncan McIntyre as Narrator, Geoffrey Wincott as The Prince Consort Lockwood West, Antony Viccars and John Wyse.
To the dear Memory of Him who made the life of the writer bright and happy. These simple records are lovingly and gratefully inscribed....
Jean Anderson is in 'The Sleeping Prince' at the St. Martin's Theatre, London.
See page 40.
Followed by an interlude.

Contributors

Writer:
Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Written For Radio By:
Joanna Richardson
Producer:
David Davis
Queen Victoria:
Jean Anderson
Narrator:
Duncan McIntyre
The Prince Consort Lockwood West:
Geoffrey Wincott
[Actor]:
Antony Viccars
[Actor]:
John Wyse

A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
Islands ' In Pawn ': 500 years ago the sovereignty of the Orkney Isles was transferred from Norway to Scotland. Orcadian ERNEST MARWICK explains why
Atlantic Home: ANNE PATERSON spent a fortnight with a party restoring cottages on St. Kilda Tax Relief on £ 20: It brought back a war memory to EDMUND SULLEY Speyside Couple: a twenty-four-hour watch is being kept on a pair of ospreys who have returned to nest near the Cairngorms
I Invented a Fish: LAVINIA DERWENT has now written 200 stories about a celebrated Children's Hour character, Tammy Troot

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Unknown:
Anne Paterson
Unknown:
Lavinia Derwent
Unknown:
Tammy Troot

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
10: Home at Last;
Produced by Brian Hulme

Contributors

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

Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.

Contributors

Written by:
Edward J. Mason
Edited by:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced by:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Prudence Forrest:
Mary Dalley
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood

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