Kathleen Beel in BBC series about gifted children

Oct. 10, 1961 - Six-year-old girl chosen to appear in Gifted Child Programme: Kathleen Beel, aged six and a half, from Alton Estate, Putney, has been chosen to appear in a programme about the gifted child in the BBC TV series Perspective which is screened on Thursday afternoons. The young girl, who has a reading age of fourteen, has taught herself chess, reads avidly and has written poetry, was chosen from many contenders after producer Beryl Radley asked for application on the air. Photo Shows Outside the Lime Grove studios where the programme (to be telecast on Dec. 28) was recorded today Kathleen Beel leaning against a wall

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