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A series of four weekly programmes
1-An Independent School
Boys shout, a bell rings, ranks form, and the school files into chapel for assembly
.. so begins another day at school.
This is an attempt to portray a secondary school through the events of its daily life, in the class room, the staff room, and the playground. It is also an attempt to show what schools have in common and what divides them from each other.
Compiled and produced by Owen Leeming

Contributors

Produced By:
Owen Leeming

by J. Maclaren-Ross
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
A twelve-year-old murder; hidden bank-notes to the value of £30,000; and an arrogant amateur competing with professional criminals in trying to find the elusive ex-convict who talked in his sleep about a key.

Contributors

Writer:
J. MacLaren Ross
Producer:
Donald McWhinnie
Lionel Hulme, a radio crime commentator:
Anthony Jacobs
Pauline, his wife:
Cecile Chevreau
A process-server:
Norman Wynne
Larry Parr, a radio producer:
J. MacLaren-Ross
The man in the black mac:
Felix Felton
Jelf an ex-convict:
Haydn Jones
Dimitriadi a barber:
Philip Leaver
Mrs Grass, a pub proprietress:
Mona Washbourne
Smithers the key man:
John Sharp
Gaby, a cabaret dancer:
June Tobin
A safe-deposit custodian:
Hugh Manning

Past Olympiads: Before departing for Rome, Alice Derbyshire , whose husband, J. H. Derbyshire , was a British Gold Medallist for swimming in the 1908 games, tells John Dunn about the Olympic Games of the past fifty years Reading Your Letters: Comment and advice from listeners' letters after Indian Summer's programme of extracts from ' Three Score-and Then ? '
(The first talk is recorded)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Derbyshire
Unknown:
J. H. Derbyshire
Unknown:
John Dunn

* Treasure Island'
Robert Louis Stevenson 's adventure story abridged by Barbara Henderson and read in ten episodes by Derek McCulloch
1—' The Old Sea Dog '
See Junior Radio Times
5.15 Paul at the Piano
The first of two programmes in which Alan Paul introduces and plays well-known nursery rhymes and transcriptions of them
5.30 Write Me a Letter'
The Children's Hour correspondence column of the air
Edited and introduced by Adrian Thomas
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch
Introduces:
Alan Paul
Introduced By:
Adrian Thomas

Sylvia Fisher (soprano)
Sergio Varella Cid (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Alan Frank writes on page 25

Contributors

Soprano:
Sylvia Fisher
Piano:
Sergio Varella Cid
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Albert Hall. London
Unknown:
Alan Frank

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