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The National Extension College in Cambridge has recently started a correspondence course designed to equip women to enter or return to teaching
BRIAN JACKSON sets out the aims of the course, and some of the students, with their local tutor, explain what they are getting out of it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Jackson

The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams adapted for radio by DAFYDD GRUFFYDD with Rhoda Lewis
Miss Moffat, a school teacher of high intelligence and imagination, opens a village school in a remote North Wales village and in Morgan Evans, an illiterate miner, she discovers genius.
Producer, HERBERT DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Emlyn Williams
Unknown:
Dafydd Gruffydd
Unknown:
Rhoda Lewis
Producer:
Herbert Davies

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Argument: third in a series of conversations on an issue of the day
Wee Georgie Wood : TONY VAN
DEN BERGH continues his conversation with the famous music-hall artist
For Your Library List: some recommendations from MAR-JORY TODD
Lay a Little Egg for Me: or how not to build a chicken run for your wife, by Bruce KNAPP
Today's Exercise: by a doctor
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgie Wood
Unknown:
Tony Van
Unknown:
Den Bergh
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Young musicians from Northern Ireland
THE EMERALD CEILI BAND
MAUREEN REDMOND (soprano) MARTIN CLEMENTS (treble) MARIAN ROWAN (piano)
JEAN WHITE and IRENE KINGSTON (song duets)
Accompanist, HAVELOCK NELSON
Introduced by CICELY MATHEWS

Contributors

Soprano:
Martin Clements
Piano:
Marian Rowan
Piano:
Jean White
Unknown:
Irene Kingston
Accompanist:
Havelock Nelson
Introduced By:
Cicely Mathews

by Paolo Messina translated and adapted for radio by VIRGINIA KENT with Eithne Dunne
Cast in order of speaking:
Singer,
MAUREEN KENNEDY-MARTIN
Produced by R. D. Smith
See lacing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Paolo Messina
Unknown:
Eithne Dunne
Singer:
Maureen Kennedy-Martin
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Narrator:
Peter Marinker
Mother:
Eithne Dunne
Antonio:
Leo Maguire
Flavia:
Aileen Harte
Giacomo:
John Hollis
Leonardo:
Paul KermacK
Andrea:
Nigel Clayton

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on public affairs and policy
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House, London. W.1,

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter James

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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