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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.
20: Towards the Examinations
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

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 19th Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French
Programme 6
De Lisle:
Midi Les bottes de sept lleues (6) Plein soleil
La rose (Fauri)
Speakers: PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Wednesday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

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

Question Session
Answers to some listeners' motoring problems from
COMMANDER COLIN WOODS of the Metropolitan Police
MAURICE SMITH Editor of Autocar
COURTENAY EDWARDS Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Woods
Unknown:
Maurice Smith
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
RENÉE HOUSTON, DEREK Nimmo CLEMENT FREUD , BARBARA BLAKE 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

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Barbara Blake
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

C. Day Lewis: Poet Laureate, 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:
C. Day Lewis
Producer:
Michael Hall

Who Was Norma Stone ? by David Lawton with John Bentley
Nigel Anthony , Polly Murch
' I wondered how you'd take it ... What would you feel? What would you say? Well-here you are, talking like a doctor to his patient. And you're my father! I'm your son! '
Other parts played by LeRoy Lingwood
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Norma Stone
Unknown:
David Lawton
Unknown:
John Bentley
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Polly Murch
Played By:
Leroy Lingwood
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Gavin Warwick:
John Bentley
Helen Warwick:
Polly Murch
Patti Osborne:
Denise Buckley
Tom Stone:
Nigel Anthony
Mrs Barnett:
Marjorie Westbury

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Lord Mancroft, K.B.E., T.D.: a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
Our treatment in a French Hospital: VALERIE ROSE and her family had a car accident at the outset of their holiday
A Fine Italic Hand: AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR THEODORE McEvoy , Chairman of the Society for Italic Handwriting, talks to Teresa McGonagle
Not on speaking terms: OLGA FRANKLIN describes her family's complicated relationships
An owner makes a dog what it is: FRANK PETTIT talks to Joan Pyper about his book Sane Dogs and Englishmen
Holidays abroad on the devalued pound: HAZEL MEYRICK EVANS and JOHN CARTER discuss the possibilities

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Valerie Rose
Unknown:
Sir Theodore McEvoy
Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle
Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Talks:
Frank Pettit
Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Hazel Meyrick
Unknown:
John Carter

A radio competition for bands
Round 1: programme 8
Markham Main Colliery Band Conductor, ALLAN STREET v.
Woodfalls Silver Band
Conductor, COURTNEY BOSANKO
Adjudicators:
LT.-COL. (Retd.)
DOUGLAS A. POPE , O.B.E.
GILBERT VINTER
FRANK WRIGHT
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Produced by William Relton

Contributors

Conductor:
Allan Street
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 DAWN ADDAMS, MICHAEL HOWARD PAUL JENNINGS , LESLIE SARONY
Chairman, BARRY TOOK
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford Produced by Bill Worsley
Broadcast on Sept. 3. 1967 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Howard
Unknown:
Paul Jennings
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

WYN MORRIS conducts the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley in a programme of music for all the family with DAVID HUGHES (tenor)
FFRANGCON DAVIES (piano)
Introduced by IWAN THOMAS
Produced by Moelfryn Harries and Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Carmen (Bizet), Cosi Ian tutte (Mozart), and the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Llandaff. Tickets may be obtained from BBC Broadcasting House[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Wyn Morris
Leader:
Colin Staveley
Tenor:
David Hughes
Introduced By:
Iwan Thomas
Produced By:
Moelfryn Harries
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Cosi Ian

Chiefest Enemy by Hope Lee adapted for radio by Hallam Tennyson
.........security Is mortals' chiefest enemy MACBETH
It Is May 1945 In a Japanese Civilian Detention Centre outside Shanghai. Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Hope Lee
Unknown:
Hallam Tennyson
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
John Hazelton:
David Brierley
Joe Chard:
Henry Stamper
James Hazelton:
Ralph Truman
Old Bill:
Henry Manning
Mrs Chard (Sonia):
Shirley Cooklin
Mrs Hazelton (Stella):
Pauline Letts
Mrs Twyman:
Barbara Mitchell
Mrs Poate:
Hilda Schroder
David Pickersgill:
Denys Hawthorne
Patricia Chard:
Carol Marsh
Japanese guards: Mahjong:
Garard Green
Japanese guards: Osi:
Ronald Herdman

† BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with DAME KATHLEEN LONSDALE
President of the British Association
SIR BERNARD Lovell
Director of Jodrell Bank Experimental Station
HENRY LIPSON
Professor of Physics,
Manchester University Institute of Science and Technology

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Lipson

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