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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 17: EI Setior Diez y su secretaria
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO .with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Setior 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.
16: T. S. Eliot
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:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
David Grugeon

A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French Nineteenth Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 2
Do Nerval: Une allée du Luxembourg; Chanson gothique
Les bottes de sept lieues-2 Le parapluie
Demain j'ai vingt ans
Speakers. PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paulette Preney
Unknown:
Louis Bloncourt
Unknown:
Paul Couster

Depreciation: the hidden cost of owning a car
Getting Rid of Old Junk: the motorist and the Civic Amenities Act
Lubricating Oil: what does it do?: the how and why of engine lubrication
Lock the Steering: a review of security methods 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 Marjorie Proops, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Millie try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by Ian Messiter
Produced by David Hatch
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London, W.1.
(Nicholas Parsons is in "Uproar in the House" at the Whitehall Theatre; Derek Nimmo in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

William the Conqueror by Rudyard Kipling adapted for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
See page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Produced By:
David Davis
Scott:
Gabriel Woolf
Martyn:
Nigel Clayton
Raines:
Geoffrey Wincott
William:
Jo Manning Wilson
R K:
Christopher Bidmead
Faiz Ullah:
Garard Green
Hawkins:
Stephen Jack
Lady Jim:
Gudrun Ure
Orderly:
Humphrey Morton
Apothecary:
Humphrey Morton
McEuan:
Peter Baldwin
Eurasian:
Peter Baldwin
Interpreter:
Garard Green

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Joyce Blackham : a recent Guest of the Week of Woman's Hour
In Partnership: THE BEWILDERING ZODIAS, in two separate studios, demonstrate their act to Marjorie Anderson
The Festival of Ste. Devote: MARIE BURKE describes the annual festival in Monaco
All together in the Floral Dance: PEGGY ARCHER visits the Pendeen Silver Band in Cornwall
On being polite to the young: FREDDYBLOOM believes the older generation often lacks courtesy
Distortion or Elucidation?: ROBIN DAY and JULIAN CRITCHLEY discuss with Joan Yorke the effects some television programmes can have

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Joyce Blackham
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Marie Burke
Unknown:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
Julian Critchley
Unknown:
Joan Yorke

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with AVRIL ANGERS, STEVE RACE HARRY H. CORBETT. TED RAY Chairman, BARRY TOOK
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford Produced by Bobby Jaye
Broadcast on August 6. 1967 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Harry H. Corbett.
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

Marcus Dods conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, leader Arthur Leavins, in a programme of music for all the family with Johanna Peters (contralto), Colin Horsley (piano)
Introduced by Roy Williamson
Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from "Graduation Ball" by Strauss, arranged by Dorati; "Samson and Delilah" by Saint-Saens; and the first movement of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, in C minor.

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Contralto:
Johanna Peters
Piano:
Colin Horsley
Introduced by:
Roy Williamson
Produced by:
Gareth Walters

Lift a Bright Stone by Roy Clarke
Produced by Alan AYCKBOURN

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Clarke
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn
David Lewis:
Kenneth Gilbert
Jane Beddoes:
Pamela Craig
Frank Law:
Colin Edwynn
Mrs Law:
Ruth Holden
Fiona:
Diana Harker
Jack Brings:
Leonard Fenton
Mike Tong:
Robert Powell
Centrepin:
Douglas Fielding
Finch:
Peter Schofield
Pam:
Jeannie Crowther
Tommy:
Paul Webster
Taxi driver:
Christopher Godwin

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