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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 3: En el hotel (i)
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Also taking part: Cesar Milego and Antonio L6pez
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book forms an essential part of the course. See page 31

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto
Unknown:
Cesar Milego

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.
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.

Contributors

Radio tutor:
David Grugeon

A course of fifteen lessons In spoken Mandarin for those who followed Introduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.

Introduced by Lucia Liu with the help of Terry Chang
Language consultant, Mrs Y. C Liu
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and pronunciation record are available.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Lucia Liu
Unknown:
Terry Chang

The London Motor Show
Whither Motoringf
A discussion on the future as reflected by the Motor Show with COURTENAY EDWARDS , Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph
HAROLD DVORETSKY , Motoring Correspondent of the Australian Consolidated Press
L. V. PRUNEAU , Assistant to Styling Director of VauxhaU Motors, Ltd.
HARRY WEBSTER , Director and Chief Engineer of Standard-Triumph, Ltd.
FILMER PARADISE, Managing Director (Europe) of the British Motor Corporation
Together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Courtenay Edwards
Unknown:
Harold Dvoretsky
Unknown:
L. V. Pruneau
Unknown:
Harry Webster
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

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 23 (Light)

Contributors

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

Professor Sir Denis Brogan, writer, teacher, journalist, and broadcaster, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Sir Denis Brogan
Producer:
Monica Chapman

by Kenneth Bird
with Jon Rollason
Ian Naughton, ace reporter, tramples his way to a scoop, seriously neglecting his home life.
†from the Midlands

Contributors

Writer:
Kenneth Bird
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Reg Galley:
Graham Rigby
Bill Sinden:
Richard Frost
Ian Naughton:
Jon Rollason
Mark Mellish:
John Berwyn
Enid Naughton:
Anne Cullen
Chief Supt Hollis:
Stephen Hancock
Malcolm Conrad:
Jack Holloway
Nick Chalmers:
Colin Skipp
Harry Brewer:
George Woolley
Maxine:
Jacqueline Nicholas
Eunice Wainwright:
Eileen Barry
Taxi driver:
Jim Duckett

A Saturday Supplement to "Woman's Hour".
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
Bicycling on my rounds: a doctor's solution to the traffic problem.
A deported wife: Betty Ambatlelos, whose husband was a political prisoner in Greece for sixteen years, talks to Joan Yorke.
Round the world by Catamaran: David Lewis, his wife and children, talk to Anne Gregg about their recent voyage.
Mother came home: Iva Mltchell-Etherington describes caring for her mother after a stroke.
Starting University: views and suggestions collected by Sally Holloway.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Interviewee:
Betty Ambatlelos
Interviewer:
Joan Yorke
Speaker:
David Lewis
Reporter:
Anne Gregg
Speaker:
Iva Mitchell-Etherington
Speaker:
Sally Holloway

with Rodney Bewes , James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier in this week's story, Rocker with REGINALD JESSUP CHERYL MOLINEAUX and ROSALIND SHANKS
Script by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
Broadcast on August 20 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodney Bewes
Unknown:
James Bolam
Unknown:
Bob Ferris
Unknown:
Terry Collier
Unknown:
Reginald Jessup
Unknown:
Cheryl Molineaux
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Script By:
Dick Clement
Script By:
Ian La Frenais
Produced By:
John Browell

VILEM TAUSKY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with CAROLINE CRAWSHAW (soprano) JAMES HUGHES (harmonica)
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOYES Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from La Boheme (Puccini), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Things to Come (Bliss), and Harmonica Concerto by Malcolm Arnold.

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Caroline Crawshaw
Introduced By:
Alexander Moyes
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold.

A Lodging for a Bride by Patrick Kirwan
Adapted by the author from his stage play
Principal characters:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Kirwan
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Mrs Palmer:
Elleen Colgan
Eddie:
Fraser Kerr
The Bishop:
John Sharp
Alfie:
Anthony Jackson
Edna Marshall:
Margaret Wolfit
Miss Slee:
Marjorie Westbury
Pinky:
Nigel Graham
Watson:
John Pullen
Superintendent Bussy:
Victor Lucas
Weatherby:
Harold Kasket
Mr Bridges:
Duncan McIntyre
Mr Judkin Browne:
Lockwood West

† BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with BARONESS PHILLIPS Government Whip in the House of Lords
D. M. MACKAY
Professor of Communications, Keele University
T. DAN SMITH
Chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council

Contributors

Unknown:
T. Dan Smith

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