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On the Teaching of Mathematics
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.' Second broadcast

1: Coimbra University Chapel, Portugal
GERAINT JONES (organ)
POLYPHONIA OF LISBON
Conductor,
MARIA DE SAMPAYO RIBEIRO First of six programmes introduced by Geraint Jones
Second recital: October 16
See page 6
Dinner at Magny's
Another broadcast of Robert Baldick 's conversation piece based on the Goncourt Journals: next Saturday (Third)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geraint Jones
Conductor:
Polyphonia Of Lisbon
Conductor:
Maria de Sampayo Ribeiro
Introduced By:
Geraint Jones
Unknown:
Robert Baldick

based on a short story by Ray Bradbury
Adapted and produced by NESTA PAIN with Joan Miller as The Woman
David King-Wood as Commentator
Music composed and conducted by ANTONY HOPKINS
Singers: ANN DOWDALL and JOHN CAROL CASE
In an area of destruction, empty of human life, mechanical activity of a kind still persists ... for a time. Second broadcast

Contributors

Story By:
Ray Bradbury
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Unknown:
David King-Wood
Conducted By:
Antony Hopkins
Singers:
Ann Dowdall
Singers:
John Carol Case

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