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

Contributors

Unknown:
El Senor Diez
Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto

Everyday German by radio
Twenty programmes for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language, based on Erich Kastner 's novel Drei Manner im Schnee: an extended version of last year's broadcast with extra practice material.
1: Eine Schnapsidee
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A 112-page handbook is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Erich Kastner
Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler

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 8
Hugo: Demain des l'aube
Les bottes de sept lieues (8) L'ame des poetes
La cigale et la fourmi
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 West London Traffic Control Experiment: a comment on the system and its achievements so far
Tyre Profile: an explanation of the trend towards flatter and wider tyres
Parking Prettily: the do's and don'ts by experts 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 , 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:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Andrée Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

The Call of the Hippy by James G. Harris with Moray Watson , Paul Jones Clifford Rose
' I thought we could win but we can't. They're stronger than we are. Look at me. I've grown old and fat in the service of money.'
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS
Clifford Rose is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
James G. Harris
Unknown:
Moray Watson
Unknown:
Paul Jones
Unknown:
Clifford Rose
Produced By:
Martin Jenkins
Produced By:
Clifford Rose
Narrator:
Victor Lucas
Desmond:
Moray Watson
Florence:
Barbara Mitchell
Carl:
Clifford Rose
Finsbury:
Robert MacLeod
Wells:
Duncan McIntyre
Mrs Johnson:
Betty Hardy
Gerald:
Paul Jones
A girl:
Rosalind Shanks

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Professor Janey Ironside : a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
Brighter British Sundays: LORD WILLIS and SIR CYRIL OSBORNE , m.p., in discussion with JOAN YORKE
A good cry: KAY WITHERS on the difficulties of keeping a stiff upper lip
Planned like a Military Campaign: VINCENT HUDSON talks about a current French shopping invasion
Know your onions: JEAN MET-CALFE puts questions on cooking to POLLY ELWES and KENNETH HORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Professor Janey Ironside
Introduced By:
Sir Cyril Osborne
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Kay Withers
Talks:
Vincent Hudson
Unknown:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with PETER BROUGH , TERRY SCOTT JOAN HEAL, BILL ODDIE
Chairman, BARRY TOOK
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford
Produced by Bill Worsley
Broadcast on Sept. 17 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Brough
Unknown:
Terry Scott
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Nell Alone
A detective novel by Jennie Melville adapted for radio by the author with Shirley Cain and Emrys James
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by LORRAINE DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Cain
Unknown:
Emrys James
Produced By:
Lorraine Davies
Nell:
Shirley Cain
Charlotte:
Sian Davies
Amabel:
Margaret Robertson
Mrs Richier:
Irene Prador
Black Douglas:
Emrys James
Dr Jordan:
Michael Harbour
Inspector Abel:
Ralph Truman

† Brian REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with Dame Kitty Anderson educationist
ALAN GEMMELL
Professor of Biology, University of Keele
Roy GAZZARD
Director of Development. Killingworth Township

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Dame Kitty Anderson
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell

Couperin played by STANISLAV HELLER (harpsichord) Ordre No. 23
L'audacieuse; Les tricoteuses: L'arlequine; Les gondoles de Delos: Les satires chevre-pteds
Ordre No. 25
La visionalre: La misterieuse; La monftambert; La muse victorieuse; Les ombres errantes

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Stanislav Heller

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