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Women and Work
Facts and guidance for teachers and other women who are thinking of returning to professional work
7: Teaching in Special Schools
DR. MARY WILSON talks about the staffing of Special Schools
G. Fielden HUGHES describes the organisation of home tuition and hospital schools and Three teachers discuss the challenge of teaching children with special needs
Introduced by IRENE HILTON

Contributors

Talks:
Dr. Mary Wilson
Unknown:
G. Fielden Hughes
Introduced By:
Irene Hilton

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
'A A Nice Cup of Char': being a 'potted' history of tea, including its origin, myths, and legends, and what people have said and sung about it over the past fifteen hundred years. The brew prepared by MARGARET POTTER
Hospital Visiting: JAMES BON-
SALL, a listener, discusses this subject with a Manchester physician in charge of a geriatrics unit, and with EDITH CHRISTIAN - Fletcher, W.V.S. over-sixties welfare specialist
1 Music While You Paint: while the decorators transformed her home. PAT HARTRIDGE and her record player helped to transform their musical tastes
Programme introduced by DICK GREGSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Unknown:
Pat Hartridge
Introduced By:
Dick Gregson

by John Buchan dramatised in eight parts by JOHN Keir CROSS with John Graham as Anthony Lammas
7: Journey's End
'Since your death seems of so little account to you. you may as well meet it now. You have two seconds to make your peace with whatever gods you may worship....'
1 Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
John Keir
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Anthony Lammas
Produced By:
David Davis
Winfortune:
Peter Claughton
Sir Tumour Wyse:
John Bentley
Eben Garnock:
Lockwooo West
Mr Dott:
Arthur Lawrence
rd Harry Belses:
Glyn Dearman
Maid:
Vivienne Chatterton
Gabriel Cranmer:
Pat Pleasance
Justin Cranmer:
Garard Green

by Vaughan Williams
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JOHN Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Huddersfield CHORAL Society
Chorus-Master, Eric Chadwick
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leader, Peter Mountain
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
1: A song for all seas, all ships 2: On the beach at night alone 3: Scherzo: The waves 4: The explorers
From the Town Hall, Huddersfield
Part of the Huddersfield Choral Society's first concert of the season

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Chorus-Master:
Eric Chadwick
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

Midland Region's panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and the current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by JOHN CONNELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Connell

Tchaikovsky
String Quartet in D major.
Op. 11 played by the PETER MOUNTAIN STRING QUARTET
Peter Mountain (violin) Tom Rowlette (violin) Robert Braga (viola)
Christopher Catchpole (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Peter Mountain
Violin:
Tom Rowlette
Viola:
Robert Braga
Cello:
Christopher Catchpole

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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