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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 15: El Senor Diez y Pedro fijan una cita
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Senor 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.
14: The Tempest and music 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

Unknown:
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.
Programme 15
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

Self-Service Petrol Pumps: a review of the facilities
Aqua-planing: developments in wet weather tyres
Keeping Warm: the how and why of heaters 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 Isobel Barnett, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Bettine Le Beau 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:
Isobel Barnett
Panellist:
Derek Nimmo
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Bettine Le Beau

John Williams: guitarist, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m.)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
John Williams
Producer:
Michael Hall

Cyril Cusack in Say Hello to Johnny by Thomas Kilroy
First broadcast of the prize-winning play in the 1967 BBC Northern Ireland Play Competition.
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
Thomas Kilroy
Produced By:
David A. Turner
James:
Cyril Cusack
Michael Antony:
Godfrey Quigley
Priest:
Harold Goldblatt
Johnny:
J J Murphy
Girl:
Fionnuala Rolston

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Baroness Wootton of Abinger: a recent Guest of the Week of Woman's Hour
Thinking can be fun: EDWARD DE BONO talks to Teresa McGon agle about his new book on lateral thinking
Who's our Man?: DORA TAYLOR talks about a compulsion
Great actresses of the past: in a conversation with Anne Suter ; Esme BERINGER , the ninety-two-year-old actress, remembers Sarah Bernhardt
Lucy: MERIALL M'PHERSON was owned by a donkey
Frontierwomen: WENDY COOPER reports on life and conditions in the Yukon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Teresa McGon
Talks:
Dora Taylor
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Esme Beringer
Unknown:
Sarah Bernhardt
Unknown:
Wendy Cooper

BERLIN PHILIIARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL BÖHM
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
ALAN STRINGER ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Alan Stringer
Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

A radio competition for bands
Round 1: programme 2
Ransome and Maries Works Band
Conductor, DENNIS MASTERS v.
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
Conductor, TREVOR WALMESLEY
Adjudicators:
LT.-COL (Retd.)
DOUGLAS A. Pope , O.B.E.
GILBERT VINTER , FRANK WRIGHT
Introduced by JOHN DUNN Produced by William Relton

Contributors

Conductor:
Trevor Walmesley
Unknown:
Douglas A. Pope
Unknown:
Gilbert Vinter
Unknown:
Frank Wright
Introduced By:
John Dunn
Produced By:
William Relton

The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with POLLY ELWES , JOHN JUNKIN
KEN SYKORA , KENNETH WILLIAMS
Chairman, BARRY TOOK
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford
Produced by John Simmonds Broadcast on July 23 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
John Junkin
Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
John Simmonds

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT Orchestra Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with AVA JUNE (soprano)
EUGENE ROUSSEAU (saxophone) Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music by Glazunov, Verdi, and Falla, and Concertino for saxophone and orchestra by Ibert.
From the Camden Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Eugene Rousseau
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters

Flora Robson Festival
Dame Flora stars in some of her favourite plays
Mary Tudor by Wilfrid Grantham adapted for broadcasting by the author with Maurice Denham , Jill Balcon
Roger Delgado , Carleton Hobbs Cost in order of speaking:
HUBERT DAWKES (harpsichord) Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Tudor
Unknown:
Wilfrid Grantham
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Roger Delgado
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Produced By:
David Davis
Narrator:
Lockwood West
Strelley:
Betty Hardy
Thomas Cromwell:
Harold Kasket
Mary Tudor:
Flora Robson
Bishop of Chester:
Ronald Herdman
Duke of Norfolk:
Ralph Truman
Sussex:
Frank Henderson
Susan Clarence:
Gudrun Ure
The Princess Elizabeth:
Jill Balcon
Renard:
Maurice Denham
Jane Dormer:
Rosalind Shanks
Lord Mayor of London:
Antony Vlccars
Lord Chancellor Gardiner:
Carleton Hobbs
Katherine Ashley:
Barbara Mitchell
Philip, Prince of Spain:
Roger Delgado
Feria:
Rolf Lefebvre

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