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This programme focuses on the closure of Ardmore Teachers' Training College.

Ardmore Teachers College was established during a period of post war recovery and at a time when a packet of cigarettes was a luxury. The college was housed in a derelict aerodrome. It survived many challenges and succeeded in producing poets, artists, writers, educationists, sportsman and many community and civic workers. The death knell was sounded in 1965, the reasons given being the school is isolated from a university, it is isolated from a centre of population, and isolated from easy access to schools.

- Terry Diamond (Lecturer)

- Brett Hamilton (College President)

- Bob Evans (Principal)

- Phil Barclay (Vice-Principal)

Elton John - "A Funeral for a Friend"

- Grinn Zinzan (one of Ardmore's characters)

- Fred Graham (one of Ardmore's first students)

- Adelaide Ngatai (Teacher and 1953 student)

- Pat Walsh and Selwyn Muru with a musical interlude "Misty" played by Selwyn

- Albert Wendt (Principal of Samoa and lecturer in Fiji)

- Curtis Toby

- Island students sing their farewell song at the closure "Isa Isa"

- excepts from Rowley Habib poem "The Raw Men" which is recited by Don Selwyn