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Social Work in Action
A series of twenty programmes on the nature and trends of social work in Britain
8: Work with the offender
Speakers:
DR. TERENCE MORRIS Reader in Sociology. University of London
S. R ESHELBV. M.B.E.
Principal Probation Officer. Essex
Miss JOAN SULLIVAN
Senior Probation Officer. Greenwich Juvenile Court
RONAL CONN
Senior Welfare Officer at a London prison
Introduced by DAVID HOBMAN
Produced by Dennis Simmons
Second broadcast

Contributors

Reader:
Dr. Terence Morris
Introduced By:
David Hobman
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Theft of the Thunder Box: LT.-COL. BOBBY SCOTT recalls the construction of the first 'Ladies' ever to be seen in the Kurdish Mountains
Devastating Oempsey: the story of a stray cat who became a feline ' pin-up ' boy, by KATHARINE SIMMS
A Long Night in the Spike: MICHAEL J. MURPHY tells a story about an Irishman's visit to an English workhouse many years ago
Shoestring Aloha: NORA Mc-SHERRY describes a ' package tour ' to Hawaii
It's Only Willie!: ANN JOHN-STON MCCURRY remembers one of the characters in an Irish village of yesterday
Some Irish Ballads sung by MAUREEN LEMON
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Lt.-Col. Bobby Scott
Unknown:
Katharine Simms
Unknown:
Michael J. Murphy
Unknown:
Ston McCurry
Sung By:
Maureen Lemon
Introduced By:
Maurice O'Callaghan

Bandaberry by Laurence Meynell adapted for broadcasting in six parts by NAN MACDONALD
5: A Perilous Evening
Produced by TREVORHill
Broadcast on Dec. 27, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Meynell
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
David Walker:
Geoffrey Matthews
Elderly man:
Robert Wallace
Lorry driver:
Frank Poynter
The Philosophical Tramp:
Geoffrey Banks
A longshoreman:
Joe Holmes
Sigmund Herst:
Graham Tennant
Carol:
Jean Telfer

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 WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle

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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