Alec Robertson introduces some of the music to be broadcast from the Promenade Concerts during the coming week.

(This morning's recorded broadcast in the Home Service)

The 1961 season includes more than fifty works that have never before been heard at the Proms. The Prospectus, which includes a preface by the BBC's Controller of Music, William Glock, and details of the forty-nine concerts in the series, can be obtained (price 1s., by post 1s. 4d., postal orders, not stamps, please) from BBC Publications, [address removed] the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, S.W.7, and usual agents

Helping Your Child to Learn to Swim by Margaret Fox a former lecturer in Physical Train.ing. and mother of two young children
The Family and the Law by Pamela Deedes a solicitor, and legal adviser to the Marriage Guidance Council 2: Some Cases of Parents v. Children

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