Variations on a theme of Paganini, Op. 35 played by David Parkhouse (piano)

A series on the teaching of mathematics
2: Discovery or Disillusion? Frank Land
Professor of Education, University of Hull, conducts an enquiry into some of the defects of the present structure of mathematics teaching, as they are revealed in the skills and attitudes of school-leavers. The programme includes the verdicts of university teachers, lecturers in technical and training colleges, and an industrial mathematician.
' Somebody, somewhere, is contriving to give the young the impression that mathematics ... is difficult.'
Research in Progress: March 20

A sequel to The Childhood by JESSIE KESSON with Lennox Milne as Mary Carron
This programme shows Mary Carron in the years beyond childhood when, at the age of fifteen, she was moved from the protection of the Orphanage first into a Working Girls' Hostel and then to a Mental Hospital. with Helena Gloag , Gwyneth Guthrie Effie Morrison , Bryden Murdoch Jean Taylor Smith , Gudrun Ure and Mary Walton
Production by David THOMSON
Recorded in the Scottish studios of the BBC
: Second broadcast

played by the Oromonte String Trio Perry Hart (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)
One of a series to include contemporary British chamber music.
Bliss, Oboe Quintet: March 23