An up-to-date report for amateur and professional naturalists
Introduced by Maxwell Knight
Including contributions from Arnold Darlington David McClintock
H. N. Southern, Robert Spencer
Edited and produced by Bruce Campbell

Twenty programmes designed to give listeners with some knowledge of Italian an opportunity of improving their understanding of the language. 3: Italian Countryside (ii)
The programmes are presented by Giuseppe Manighetti, who is bilingual, with the assistance of Ariella Reggio and Andrea Tacchi
They will include revision of grammar, reading of printed texts, explanations of syntax and vocabulary. and impromptu conversations
Devised and produced by Elsie Ferguson
Repeated on Friday at 6.40
An essential adjunct to the programmes is a special ninety-four-page booklet containing English introductions, texts, explanatory notes, and vocabulary. It can be obtained through booksellers and newsagents, price 5s., or by sending a crossed postal order to [address removed]A new Italian Pronunciation disc, sponsored by the BBC, has also been prepared. The speakers are Ariella Reggio and Andrea Tacchi. It can be obtained from BBC Publications at the above address, price 5s. 3d. plus 9d. for inland postage and packing.

Diet and Development
Dr. J. M. TANNER , of the Department of Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University of London, considers the question of diet and growth in children, wi'h special reference to the trend towards earlier maturity
The Catarrhal Child
A family doctor talks about the frequency of coughs and colds in children between the ages of two and eight

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