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A series of programmes reflecting some current opinions on aspects of child-care
Children who ' Could do Better '
When a child is at school. various difficulties in learning may be experienced. These become important when the child fails to keep up with his contemporaries or does not fultil his own potential. What sort of difficulty is encountered; and what kind of help?
Speakers :
Dr. MARGARET REINHOLD neurologist and psychiatrist
MARJORIE DURWARD educational psychologist
A CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
MRS. JUNE JAY
Chairman. LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Broadcast on January 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Margaret Reinhold
Unknown:
Marjorie Durward
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

from the West of England
Songs and music in traditional style with PAT NELSON , Jim BAILEY
DICK WITT , IRENE HARCOURT
THE GREENSLEEVES BAND Led by Dennis Darke and the dancers of Launceston, Cornwall
Produced by Brian Patten

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Nelson
Unknown:
Jim Bailey
Unknown:
Dick Witt
Unknown:
Irene Harcourt
Unknown:
Dennis Darke
Produced By:
Brian Patten

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
+ Are you a faceless blur?:
ANNE JONES reflects on the doctor-patient relationship
Young Girl at No. 10: ISHBEL
PFTERKIN, daughter of the late Ramsay MacDonald , talks to ARCHIE LEE about her life as her father's hostess
Amateur Acrobat: BERNARD NEWMAN recalls an incident in Poland
Sixteen Years After:
SHEILA ROGERSON describes adjustments made and challenges faced after being severely paralysed by polio
Asking about Learning: JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH visits the Advisory Centre for Education, which exists mainly to help parents, pupils, and students of all ages
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Thirteenth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Talks:
Ramsay MacDonald
Unknown:
Archie Lee
Acrobat:
Bernard Newman
Unknown:
Sheila Rogerson
Unknown:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

A reconstruction of the sensational trial of Mrs. Hall and her two brothers on a charge of murdering her husband-an Episcopalian minister-and Eleanor Mills-a member of his church choir-in New Brunswick, U.S.A.: July 1926
Compiled and narrated by Edgar Lustgarten
Principal characters:
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Shortened version of the programme broadcast on April 27 in the series Famous American Trials

Contributors

Unknown:
Eleanor Mills-A
Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
The Rev Edward Hall:
Allan McClelland
Mrs Hall:
Shirley Dixon
Eleanor Mills:
Diana Olsson
Jim Mills:
Russell Napier
Mr Simpson, for the Prosecution:
Alan Tilvern
Mr Case for the Defence:
Thauer Faulkner
The Pig Woman:
Mary Wimbush
Henry Stevens:
Patrick Barr
Willie Stevens:
Peter Marinker

including:
Those Early Flying Boats: MARJORIE SANKEY recalls the work on drawings of twin seater bi-planes at Southampton during the 1914-18 War
An Education: a catalogue of schools and schooldays remembered by OLGA COLLETT
Memories of North Devon: B. C HILLIAM (Flotsam) tells of happy times in Bideford almost sixty years ago
The Extraordinary Mr. Dibdin: IAN CARSWELL talks about the versatile composer who was born in Southampton 200 years ago, and PETER FRANKLIN sings some of his songs
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN from Southampton

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Sankey
Unknown:
Olga Collett
Unknown:
Peter Franklin
Introduced By:
Ralph Wightman

The Amateur Gentleman
A tale of Regency days by Jeffery Farnol adapted in thirteen parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with and Barnabas accompanied Captain Slingsby on a visit to Jasper Gaunt , the moneylender-despite a warning from Billy Button.
7: Barnaby Bright
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffery Farnol
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Jasper Gaunt
Unknown:
Billy Button.
Produced By:
John Powell
as Barnabas Barty:
Brian Hewlett
as The Storyteller:
Anthony Jackson
Cleone:
Eva Haddon
Duchess of Camberhurst:
Noel Hood
Countess of Orme:
Joan Matheson
Sir George Annersley:
Walter Fitzgerald
Marquis of Jerningham:
John Justin
Major Piper:
Alan Dudley
John Chumly:
Basil Jones
Sir Mortimer Carnaby:
Ronald Herdman
Mr Chichester:
Anthony Hall
Ralph Darville:
Noel Howlett
Billy Button:
Michael Kilgarriff

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 current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by COLIN VALDAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Valdar

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More