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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 14: Una joriiada de la Senora Díez (ii)
Presented by JACINTA CASDLLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Casdllejo
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. 13: The Tempest
Radio tutor. DAVID GRUGEON
† Last Monday's broadcast (Study)

A course of fifteen lessons in spoken Mandarin for those who followed lntroduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.
Programme 14
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

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
The 70 m.p.h. limit: views from the Institute of Advanced Motorists
Danger - Fumes: the hidden risk for motorists
Auto-Guidance: recent research into remote control systems together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Betty Marsden, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Elizabeth Beresford try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by Ian Messiter
Produced by David Hatch
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:
Betty Marsden
Panellist:
Derek Nimmo
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Elizabeth Beresford
Deviser:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Laurens van der Post, C.B.E.: a recent Guest of the Week of Woman's Hour
The wonderful girl in the flying machine: CONSTANCE BABINGTON SMITH on her new biography of Amy Johnson
Samaritan: MOLLY MORTIMER talks about her work
Private Detectives: NORMAN TOZER investigates who they are and what they do
'To Auntie with Love': JACK DE MANIO talks to Teresa McGonagle about his new book

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Constance Babington Smith
Talks:
Molly Mortimer
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Talks:
Jack De Manio

A radio competition for bands
Round 1: programme 1
Brighouse and Rastrick Band Conductor,
WALTER B. HARGREAVES v.
Hanwell Band
Conductor, ERIC BRAVINGTON
Adjudicators:
LT.-Col (Retd.)
DOUGLAS A. POPE , O.B.E. GILBERT VINTER
FRANK WRIGHT
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Produced by William Relton

Contributors

Conductor:
Walter B. Hargreaves
Unknown:
Douglas A. Pope
Unknown:
Gilbert Vinter
Unknown:
Frank Wright
Introduced By:
John Dunn
Produced By:
William Relton

or I don'like to be beside the seaside
A comedy anthology featuring:
GERARD HOFFNUNG
STANLEY HOLLOWAY
TONY FAYNE
GEORGE FORMBY
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Steptoc and Son
Round the Home
Introduced by Tim BRINTON
Complied and produced by DAVID HATCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Hoffnung
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
Tony Fayne
Unknown:
George Formby
Unknown:
Stephen Leacock
Introduced By:
Tim Brinton
Produced By:
David Hatch

ERIC WETHERELL conducts the BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead in a programme of music for all the family with JEAN ALLISTER (contralto)
RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
Introduced by SANDRA CHALMERS
Produced by David Richardson and Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Le Roi d'Ys (Lalo). Don Carlo (Verdi), Merrie England (Edward German), and L' Arlésienne (Bizet).
Eric Wtlherell broadcasts uy arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Wetherell
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Contralto:
Jean Allister
Introduced By:
Sandra Chalmers
Produced By:
David Richardson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Merrie England
Unknown:
Eric Wtlherell

'Tilings are great. May have a Midas at two hundred.' Michael Dillon was intrigued by the post-card from his old friend Sam Stewart. but when he arrived in Cyprus to join Sam in running a diving school he found he had a long way to go before solving the cryptic message.

Contributors

Writer:
David Williams
Producer:
Betty Davies
Warrant Officer:
Antony Viccars
Michael Dillon:
Gabriel Woolf
Ruth Stewart:
Madi Hedd
Alexis Politas:
Trader Faulkner
Inspector Stamati:
Victor Lucas
Kyrios:
Nigel Anthony
Anna Politas:
Bern Boyd
Nicholas Voskos:
Roger Delgado
Milos Politas:
Dekek Lamden
Dimitrios Garzis:
Haydn Jones
Stephano:
Andrew Jack

† BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with DR. ELIZABETH NELSON market research psychologist
SIR FRANK KEARTON
Chairman of Courtaulds
T. DAN SMITH
Chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Elizabeth Nelson
Unknown:
Sir Frank Kearton
Unknown:
T. Dan Smith

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