22/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. How should children be taught to read? The Taylor Maids, reformed after fifty years, trafficked women and the Olympics, and how to run an allotment.
Presented by Jane Garvey. In 1940, Alec Bristow published the wartime classic "How to Run an Allotment, his daughter Jane talks about the legacy of the book. Teaching children to read - are synthetic phonics the only way? Back in the 1950s, two schoolfriends Jackie Hockridge and Terry Cryer formed The Taylor Maids, they tell Jane about why they've reformed for Edinburgh and trafficked women and the Olympics - how big a problem is it likely to be?
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Illiteracy in primary school children
A new report suggests that illiteracy in primary schools could be due to a failure to teach phonics. Jane is joined by report author Miriam Gross and John Bangs, Head of Education at the NUT.
Duration: 09:37
The Taylor Maids
In 1957 Jackie Hockridge and Terry Cryer formed a dance act called The Taylor Maids. They split up four years later, but 50 years on they have reformed and are playing at this yearβs Edinburgh Fringe.
Duration: 10:08
Trafficking and the Olympics
Jane talks to Ruth Breslin from the charity for trafficked women The Poppy Project, and to Richard Martin, Commander of the specialist police unit set up to investigate human trafficking.
Duration: 11:07
Allotments
βHow to run an allotmentβ by Alec Bristow has been republished. Jane is joined by the authorβs daughter, Jane Nelson and Karen Kenny, from the National Association of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners.
Duration: 09:35
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- Thu 22 Jul 2010 10:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
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