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A series of programmes on aspects of child-care
Time out of School
What should Children be doing when they are not at school? Should more activities be organised for them, and if so, by whom? Or perhaps they should have more time for doing nothing?
Speakers:
Dr. W. D. WALL
Director, National Foundation for Educational Research
KEITH HILL
Warden, Manchester University Settlement
John CHALK
Headmaster of a London primary school
MRS. JUNE JAY
Chairman. LESLIE SMITH f Produced by Barbara Crowther

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. W. D. Wall
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

by Kay Dick with Narrator, HILDA SCHRODER
Others taking part:
Beth Boyd , Douglas Hankin
John Justin. Michael McClain
Elizabeth Proud. Pauline Wynn
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Broadcast on February 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Dick
Narrator:
Hilda Schroder
Unknown:
Beth Boyd
Unknown:
Douglas Hankin
Unknown:
John Justin.
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud.
Unknown:
Pauline Wynn
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Mrs Gaskell:
Joan Matheson

4: Split down the Middle by David Campton
' I know you're my best friend and the fog isn'your fault, but you did lose the oars and I didn'want to come in the first place ...'
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
Broadcast on Nov. 13. 1966, In the North of England Home Service

Contributors

Unknown:
David Campton
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Josie:
Barbara Young
Fran:
Pamela Craig
Boatman:
Colin Edwynn

with Wilfred Pickles visits
' The Old Kent Road with MABEL at ' The Table and HARRY HUDSON at the piano Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on Oct. 4. 1966 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Harry Hudson
Produced By:
Stephen Williams

Why are our hospitals so short of nurses? Is it just the low pay-or is it the conditions of work? Many nurses who leave say they cannot stand the drudgery or the discipline. which makes them feel like naughty schoolgirls. What does nursing consist of. anyway? And are medically trained nurses the only people who can do it?
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Thena Heshel
Broadcast in ' Focus ' on Jan 17

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A programme of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
† This is My Story: PETULA CLARK talks to John Ellison about the turning points in her life as a singer
Cordon Rouge: GEORGE VILLIERS in his kitchen today is ' talking turkey'
' Psychoanalytically-orientated-cleric available ...': PHILIP HOLLAND meditates on a recent item in a newspaper personal column
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Talks:
Petula Clark
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Black Sheep by Rosemary Weir adapted as a dramatised reading in four parts
Something was wrong at Bryn. the lonely Welsh eottase in which Mark and Caroline Hastings found themselves marooned, as they waited for the rest of the family to join them ...
2: The Disappearing Man
Readers
JOHN DARRAN , Nerys HUGHES
NICHOLAS EDMETT , LORNA DAVIES
Adapted and produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Weir
Unknown:
Caroline Hastings
Readers:
John Darran
Readers:
Nerys Hughes
Readers:
Nicholas Edmett
Unknown:
Lorna Davies
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† LESLIE SMITH introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Smith

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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