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Speaking and Writing
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and the written word.
10: Listeners' Forum
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Broadcast on December 5. 1966
There will be a weekend follow-up course to this series, organised by the National Extension College, Cambridge. and the BBC, April 5-7 in Cambridge. For details send a postcard to ' Getting It Across.' National Extension College. Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gilbert Phelps
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
Another Pair of Eyes:
JOHN HODGEMAN talks to some of the people concerned with the selection, training, and use of guide dogs for the blind
The Electrophone:
OWEN B. HOWELL recalls listening-in to the theatre at home more than fifty years ago
No State Retirement Pension?:
JOAN YORKE looks into some of the problems and the help available
Naomi Lewis Recommends: several new books for your library list

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Talks:
John Hodgeman
Unknown:
Owen B. Howell
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Naomi Lewis

Latest regional news — The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard CallinR-South-East Sport — MICHAEL BROOKE looks at listeners' letters in Postscript
Introduced by TIM GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Brooke
Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin

Listeners' letters and points of difference, aired by RENÉE HOUSTON, FANNY CRADOCK
CAROL BINSTED , DEE ANNAN
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Announcer, Angela Buckland
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse,
Northumberland Avenue. London. W.C.2
Shortened version: Thurs., 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Fanny Cradock
Unknown:
Carol Binsted
Unknown:
Dee Annan
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Announcer:
Angela Buckland
Produced By:
John Cassels

A social history in song
4: Reform with JOANNE BROWNE , CHARLES YOUNG PAT WHITMORE , CHARLES WEST HARRY LANDIS , ANN MURRAY
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanne Browne
Unknown:
Charles Young
Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
Charles West
Unknown:
Harry Landis
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

witnessed by William Forrest
In March 1939 the fate of the Republican Government in Spain was sealed by the rebellion of its army commanders. William Forrest , then News Chronicle correspondent, who was actually with the Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Cabinet near Alicante when they decided to leave Spain, recalls tho dramatic story of the last hours of the Spanish Republic.
Broadcast in the BBC World Service

Contributors

Unknown:
William Forrest
Unknown:
William Forrest
Unknown:
Dr. Juan Negrin

as Simon Eyre , the Shoemaker in A Pleasant Comedy of the Gentle Craft
The Shoemakers' Holiday
1600 by Thomas Dekker
Music composed by JOHN HOTCHKIS
Played by the WELBECK Orchestra leader, Vera Kantrovitch conducted by THE COMPOSER
Adapated for radio and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
First broadcast on November 30.
1958 (Third)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Eyre
Unknown:
Thomas Dekker
Composed By:
John Hotchkis
Leader:
Vera Kantrovitch
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Sir Roger Oteley, Lord Mayor of London:
Felix Felton
Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln:
Philip Leaver
Rowland Lacy his nephew:
Denis Quilley
Hodge, Eyre's foreman:
Charles Leno
Eyre's journeymen:Firk:
Geoffrey Matthews
Ralph:
John Bryning
Jane, wife to Ralph:
Eva Haddon
Margery, wife to Simon Eyre:
Vivienne Chatterton
Rose, daughter to Sir Roger Oteley:
Janette Richer
Sybil, her maid:
Betty Baskcomb
Master Hammon, a citizen of London:
Alastair Duncan
Master Warner, his brother-in-law:
Godfrey Kenton
A Dutch skipper:
George Merritt
Dodger, servant to the Earl of Lincoln:
Denis Goacher
A serving-man to Master Hammon:
Antony Viccars
The King:
Charles Simon

Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
Book 2: The Recfconino abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by John Cardy
First of fifteen instalments
The die is cast. The Pequod sails on under the command of a captain bent on revenge. The oceans are now one vast arena in which Captain Ahab prepares for his reckoning with Moby Dick , the great White Whale.

Contributors

Unknown:
Moby Dick
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Moby Dick

MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RICHTER with AURÈLE NICOLET (flute) gramophone records

Overture: Lucio Silla - J. C. Bach
Andante in C major, for flute and orchestra (K.315) - Mozart
Symphony in D major - C. P. E. Bach

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Richter
Flute:
Aurèle Nicolet

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