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New Ideas in Secondary Education
Ten programmes for teachers and parents on the changing scene in secondary schools
Introduced by DR. F. HILLIARD
1: The Newsom Report
SIR JOHN NEWSOM and CHARITY JAMES of Goldsmiths' College, London University, discuss the impact of the Newsom Report on schools, and whether its recommendations go far enough to meet many of our severe educational problems
Produced by Peter Jarvis

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dr. F. Hilliard
Unknown:
Sir John Newsom
Produced By:
Peter Jarvis

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.
Armchair Gardener: some simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS tCordon Rouge: with GEORGE VILLIERS in the kitchen
Your Letters
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The Coral Island
The novel by R. M. Ballantyne adapted as a dramatised reading in eight episodes by HOWARD JONES with Ronald Harvi as Ralph Rover , the Narrator
Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin have been cast ashore after the wreck of the schooner Arrow. Apart from a tree-stump, cut by an axe many years before, there is no sign of other inhabitants. The castaways decide to use the tree-stump for off-shore fishing-unaware of the terror that faces them ...
2. Which starts with a shark, and ends with a cat
Produced by TREVOR HILL from the North of England

Contributors

Novel By:
R. M. Ballantyne
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Ralph Rover
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Jack Martin:
Struan Rodger
Peterkin Gay:
Peter Landon

Sir Dugald Baird recently retired from the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Aberdeen
In conversation with JOHN GRAY he talks of some of the aspects of his own subject and of social medicine in which he has been specially interested

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Dugald Baird
Unknown:
John Gray

Answers to listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair, Professor G.P. Wells
Panel:
T.E. Allibone: physicist
David Dewhirst: astronomer
Thomas Gaskell: geologist
Gwynne Vevers: Zoologist
Arranged by David Paterson

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G.P. Wells
Unknown:
T.E. Allibone
Unknown:
David Dewhirst
Unknown:
Thomas Gaskell
Unknown:
Gwynne Vevers
Arranged By:
David Paterson

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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