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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners.
Lesson 1: En el café (i)
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO Soro
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book forms an essential part of the course. See page 69

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soro

A series of twenty-one programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. A-level examination in English. planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.
1: Towards the Twentieth Century
Radio tutor. DAVID GRUGEON
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge.

A course of fifteen lessons in spoken Mandarin for those who followed Introduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.
Programme 1
Introduced by Lucia Liu with the help of TERRY CHANG
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and pronunciation record are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Lucia Liu
Unknown:
Terry Chang

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
New Heated Glass for Cars
The Paris Motor Show 1967
A Legal Lesson about
Secondhand Cars
The American Way with Parking Problems together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Arthur Phillips
Motor with Bill Hartley : page 37

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips
Unknown:
Bill Hartley

Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN
AND THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, Douglas Smith
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS Broadcast on April 9 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Andre Previn: conductor, pianist, and composer, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Shortened repeat: Monday, 12.25 p.m.)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Andre Previn
Producer:
Monica Chapman

There Came a Young Soldier by John Cannon
. Being a soldier means a lot more than knowing how to fight. More than anything it is learning how to keep your head under difficult circumstances.'
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by RONALD MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cannon
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
the Young Soldier:
Anthony Hall
Private Wilson:
Leroy Lingwood
Corporal Wilkins:
Ronald Herdman
R S M Jim Grant:
John Hollis
Lieut Schneider:
Harold Kasket
Private Buckley:
Anthony Hall
Major Hall:
Lockwood West
The Padre:
Geoffrey Wincoit
Mr Buckley:
Ralph Truman
Elke Schneider:
Hilda Schroder

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
On October 7. 1946, the first Woman's Hour went on the air. Marjorie Anderson reintroduces some of the voices that have pictured the infinitely varying activities of women in the changing Britain of the past twenty-one years.
Among the speakers are
BARONESS STOCKS , ANNE JONES , the late VISCOUNTESS Astob, Judi DENCH. , BA MASON CILLA BLACK , and BARONESS SUMMERSKILL; and other contributors include a tramp, a prisoner, a shop steward, and several men with strong views on women.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Speakers Are:
Baroness Stocks
Speakers Are:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Judi Dench.
Unknown:
Ba Mason
Unknown:
Cilla Black

LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano) RITA GORR (mezzo-soprano) JON VICKERS (tenor)
Robert MEHRILL (baritone) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF ROME OPERA HOUSE
Conducted by GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Contributors

Soprano:
Leontyne Price
Mezzo-Soprano:
Rita Gorr
Tenor:
Jon Vickers
Baritone:
Robert Mehrill
Conducted By:
Georg Solti

with James Bolam and Rodney Bewes
Terry Collier and Bob Ferris in Where have all the flowers gonet with SHEILA FEARN , OLIVE MILBOURNE JOHN CAZABON also taking part:
Betty Hardy , LeRoy Lingwood Carol Marsh , Rosalind Shanks
Original script by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS adapted for radio by James Bolam
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
Broadcast on August 6 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Collier
Unknown:
Bob Ferris
Unknown:
Sheila Fearn
Unknown:
Olive Milbourne
Unknown:
John Cazabon
Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Leroy Lingwood
Unknown:
Carol Marsh
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Script By:
Dick Clement
Script By:
Ian La Frenais
Radio By:
James Bolam
Produced By:
John Browell

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with MARION STUDHOLME (soprano) DUNCAN Robertson (tenor) JOHN Williams (guitar) THE GALA CHORUS
Directed by John McCarthy
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOVES Produced by Gareth Walters The programme includes music from Faust (Gounod) and The Bartered Bride (Smetana). and Vivaldi's Concerto in D major.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Marion Studholme
Tenor:
Duncan Robertson
Guitar:
John Williams
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
Alexander Moves
Produced By:
Gareth Walters

Fire, Burn!
The novel by John Dickson Carr adapted as a radio play by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Gladys Young
Richard Hurndall June Tobin ,
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON '
Broadcast on April 27. 1963
Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.

Contributors

Novel By:
John Dickson Carr
Play By:
John Keir
Unknown:
Gladys Young
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Unknown:
June Tobin
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
The Presenter:
Austin Trevor
Supt John Cheviot:
Richard Hurndall
Taximan:
Andrew Sachs
Flora Drayton:
June Tobin
Colonel Rowan:
John Ruddock
Mr Richard Mayne:
James Thomason
Mr Alan Henley:
John Graham
Margaret Renfrew:
Gudrun Ure
Freddie Debbitt:
Charles Hodgson
Captain Hogben:
David March
Lady Cork:
Gladys Young
Lieutenant Wentworth:
Michael Deacon
Mr Robert Peel:
Norman Claridge
Vulcan:
Norman Shelley
Sergeant Bulmer:
Timothy West
Manton:
John Baddeley
Sergeant Boyce:
John Baddeley

BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with MISS MERVYN PIKE, M.P.
SIR STANLEY RAYMOND Chairman of the British Railways Board
DR. H. M. FINNISTON Deputy Chairman of the National Steel Corporation

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Stanley Raymond
Unknown:
Dr. H. M. Finniston

Scariatti Sonatas
D major iL.415) D minor (L.108) A minor (L.241) E major (L.257) E major (L.65) E minor (L.427) G major (L.204) C minor (L.407) D minor (L.422) A minor (L.429) played by ANDRÉ TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)
Broadcast on December 7. 1962
The third of five programmes

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