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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
13: Una Jornada de la Seilora Diez (i)
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Seilora Diez
Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto

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.
12: Victorian Poetry
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
First broadcast on Dec. 18 (Study)
Detaits 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
Programme 13
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

The Past and the Future
COURTKNAY EDWARDS , Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, picks some of the important highlights of 1967. BILL HARTLEY puts questions about the future to STEPHEN SWINGLER , m.p., Minister of State, Ministry of Transport; FRANK HIGHAM , Direclor-TIeneral of the Motor Agents' Association; A. C. LYNDON MILI ,S, Home Sales Manager, Standard-Tnumph Ltd. together with the latest news of Road Conditions and Traffic
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Courtknay Edwards
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Stephen Swingler
Unknown:
Frank Higham
Unknown:
A. C. Lyndon Mili
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Sheila Hancock, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Carol Binsted try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Last Friday's broadcast
(Nicholas Parsons is in "Uproar in the House" at the Whitehall Theatre; Derek Nimmo in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London.)

Contributors

Chairman:
Nicholas Parsons
Panellist:
Sheila Hancock
Panellist:
Derek Nimmo
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Carol Binsted

by Eddie Maguire

Mrs. Grey is taken to hospital suffering from an incurable condition. Before she dies she is able to give information of great importance to Frank Smith, a male charge-nurse at the hospital.

Characters in order of speaking: [see below]

Contributors

Writer:
Eddie Maguire
Producer:
Joe Burroughs
Frank Smith:
John Pullen
Nurse Gregory:
Gudrun Ure
Nurse Parker:
Rosalind Shanks
Mr Jenkins:
Alan Dudley
Staff Nurse:
Shirley Jaffe
Mr Lorne:
Lockwood West
Mrs Grey:
Barbara Mitchell
Sister Cawley:
Betty Hardy
Sister Long:
Beatrice Kane
Dr Barnes:
Frank Henderson
Mr Smith:
Alan Dudley

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: a recent Guest of the Week of Woman's Hour
The Swinging Honk: MIKE MERCADO talks to Marjorie Anderson
What's the use of advice?: Views from ANNE SUTER , PAUL MAHER , ANNE JONES , and other givers and seekers of advice, professional and amateur
The Room: MOLLY WEIR , brought up in Glasgow, describes the pride of their tenement home.
Middle-aged and slightly overweight: AILSA GARLAND, JEAN ROOK , and JUDITH CHALMERS discuss clothes and looks

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Professor Dame Kathleen Lons
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Paul Maher
Unknown:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Jean Rook
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

or It's Driving Thafs Driving Me Mad
A comedy anthology featuring
Michael FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
BOB NEWHART
JONATHAN MILLER
REGINALD GARDINER
THE MASTER SINGERS
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Introduced by Tim BRINTON
Compiled and produced by DAVID HATCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Donald Swann
Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Reginald Gardiner
Introduced By:
Tim Brinton
Produced By:
David Hatch

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica)
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Gareth Walters
From the Camden Theatre. London
The programme includes music by Bach. Strauss, Weber, and Kodaly, and Rumanian Fantasy for harmonica and orchestra by Francis Chagrin.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Unknown:
Tommy Reilly
Soprano:
Jeannette Sinclair
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Francis Chagrin.

The novel by Anthony Hope dramatised by Guy Vaesen

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Hope
Dramatised by:
Guy Vaesen
Stage Production:
Willard Stoker
Radio Production:
Anthony Cornish
King Rudolf V of Ruritania/Rudolf Rassendyll:
William Lucas
Countess Helga von Strofzin:
Carole Boyd
Hilde:
Liz Shipman
Johann:
Charles Waite
Colonel Sapt:
John Gay
Fritz von Tarlenheim:
John Craig
Princess Flavia:
Gloria Connell
Duke Michael:
Anthony Pedley
Marshal Strakencz:
Ivan Stafford
Antoinette de Mauban:
Sheila Barker
Max/De Gauteti:
John Bott
Rupert Hentzau:
Neil Kennedy
Krafstein/Detchard:
Charles Workman
Bersonin:
Peter Wickham

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