Twenty programmes designed to give listeners with some knowledge of Italian an opportunity of improving their understanding of the language.
15: Italian Drama
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

A series for listeners with a professional or personal interest in adolescents. It describes the developments common to adolescence in any period and the special circumstances in which young people are growing up today.
4: Staying on at School
Are secondary schools helping adolescents to grow up successfully? How adequately are they dealing with the growing numbers of pupils who are staying on at school, particularly those non-academically inclined, after the statutory leaving age?
BRIAN GROOMBRIDGE discusses these questions with EDWARD BLISHEN author of ' Roaring Boys ' and a critical observer of secondary education
MARY GREEN
Headmistress of Kidbrooke School and JOHN DRISCOLL
Headmaster of Lake House School. Essex

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