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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
22: Preparativos de vacaciones
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto

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 7
Verlaine: Nevermore
Les bottes de sept lieues (7) Poste restante Ma romance
Speakers: PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Wednesday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

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

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
The Pitfalls of Buying a Car: ways of keeping the costs down
Early Diagnosis: knocks, groans, and a general air of reluctance from the engine compartment
Pity the French Motorist!: some details of the new motoring regulations in France 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
DEREK Nimmo , CLEMENT FREUD
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD
ANDRÉE MELLY 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:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Andrée Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Rosalinde Fuller discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

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

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Rosalinde Fuller
Producer:
Michael Hall

The Brushwood Boy by Rudyard Kipling adapted for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON
Cast in order of speaking:
The setting for the song composed and played by Alan Paul
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Played By:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
David Davis
R K:
Lockwood West
Jane:
Barrie Shore
Mrs Harper:
Sheelah Willcocks
Georgie,a child:
Alexa Romanes
Georgie,a man:
Denys Hawthorne
Policeman:
Alan Dudley
Miriam:
Ann Totten
Father:
Goeffrey Wincott
Mother:
Betty Hardy
Major:
Humphrey Morton
Adjutant:
Victor Lucas
Butler:
Ian Thompson
Mrs Zuleika:
Gudrun Ure
Singer:
Beth Boyd

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A radio competition for bands
Round 2: programme 1
Brighouse and Rastrick Band Conductor,
WALTER B. HARGREAVES v.
Ransome and Maries Works Band
Conductor. DENNIS MASTERS
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

The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with Ted Ray, Benny Lee, Judith Chalmers, Neil Durden-Smith
Chairman, Barry Took
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford
Produced by Bill Worsley

(Broadcast on Sept. 10, 1967 - Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Benny Lee
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with GLENYS LOULI (mezzo-soprano) ROBERT BICKERSTAFF (baritone) RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Gareth Walters
From the Camden Theatre. London The programme includes music from Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saens) and Koanqa (Delius); ballet music from Aida (Verdi), and the finale from Ibert's Flute Concerto.
Robert Bickerstaff broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Mezzo-Soprano:
Glenys Louli
Baritone:
Robert Bickerstaff
Flute:
Richard Adeney
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Robert Bickerstaff

A play by Rodney Ackland adapted from the novel by Hugh Walpole

Years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Polchester in an old, grass-grown square - and in this house at one time or another lived three old ladies. It was a windy, creaky. rain-bitten place... with
Narrator, PETER WILLIAMS

Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Play By:
Rodney Ackland
Novel By:
Hugh Walpole
Narrator:
Peter Williams
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Agatha Payne:
Edith Evans
Lucy Amorest:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
May Beringer:
Sylvia Coleridge

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