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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 material.
6: Herr Schulze kommt auch an Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Broadcast on April 8 (Study)
A handbook is available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler

Fifteen magazine-type programmes, including songs and readings from the Penguin Book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French 19th Century Verse.
Programme 13
Gautier: La mansarde
Les bottes de sept lieues (13) Y'a que Paris Les pas perdus
Speakers: PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

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

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Exhaust Pollution: a review of the latest developments by JOE LOWREY
Corroboration - who saw it happen?: CHARLES BRANDRETH looks at the legal position
Transportation Engineering Exhibition: what's on show and why, by ERNEST DAVIES , Editor of Traffic Engineering and Control together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Brandreth
Unknown:
Ernest Davies
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A spontaneous discussion by LORD MANCROFT WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
CHARLES DOUGLAs-HOME BARONESS Birk
Question-Master, DAVID JACOBS
Produced by Michael Bowen from Lyneham. Wiltshire

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Mancroft William Hardcastle
Unknown:
Charles Douglas-Home
Question-Master:
Baroness Birk
Question-Master:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

The Square Peg
A play for radio by Mike Kernahan
When a young man is sacked from his job his wife fills in an application for him for an £ 8,000-a-year job as a managing director. ' Behind every industrial wizard quietly sits a good witch.' with Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Kernahan
Produced By:
David Davis
Cyril Bagley:
Derek Nimmo
Stella his wife:
Elvi Hale
Hopkinson, an executive:
Geoffrey Wincott
His secretary:
Carol Marsh
Fawcett:
Frank Henderson
Gregson, works manager:
Denis McCarthy
Dr Gilder:
John Wyse
Miss Harrison:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Bert Higgins, a shop steward:
Francis de Wolff
Lord Lattiker:
Ralfh Truman
Lady Lattiker:
Betty Hardy

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Dr. Barnes Wallis, C.B.EF.R.S.: a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
Breakaway: JUNE ROSE talks to a typist living and working in a big town
Swapping houses for a holiday: LARRY Ross and his family exchanged their home in London for a house outside Paris
Brightening up the house: JAMES COLVER on upholstery and loose covers
Things I have and never use: a collection from JEAN Rook , IRENE THOMAS , ARTHUR NEGUS. and PETER WHELPTON
The Long Walk by MICHAEL RAPHAEL
Read by GEORGE LAYTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Larry Ross
Unknown:
James Colver
Unknown:
Jean Rook
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Arthur Negus.
Unknown:
Peter Whelpton
Unknown:
Michael Raphael
Read By:
George Layton

3: Berlin
Records of music by Mozart. BeethovenSchubert . and Rimsky-Korsakov WILHEMKEMPFF (piano) DIETRICH FISHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
BERUN PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by KARL Bohm and HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Rimsky-Korsakov Wilhemkempff
Baritone:
Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau
Baritone:
Berun Philharmonic
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

ANONA Winn, Joy ADAMSON
NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and KENNETH HORNE in the chair
Produced by Bobby Jaye
Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower
Regent Street. London. S.W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

Morton Gould conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON Produced by Gareth Walters
From the Camden Theatre. London
The programme includes music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Johann Strauss , and Morton Gould.

Contributors

Unknown:
Morton Gould
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Piano:
Valerie Tryon
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Morton Gould.

William and Mary by Jan de Hartog in The story of a marriage with Margaret Robertson Ian Thompson
Music composed and conducted by HANS HEIMLER
This colourful ' story of a marriage' portrays the relationship between a reserved Dutch statesman and an impetuous young English princess whose union, contracted for reasons of state, grew into a bond of love.
Singers, CHRISTINE PARKER PETER BEDFORD
Adapted for radio and produced by H. B. FORTUIM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan de Hartog
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Unknown:
Ian Thompson
Conducted By:
Hans Heimler
Singers:
Christine Parker
Singers:
Peter Bedford
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuim
William of Orange:
Robert Hardy
Mary Stuart:
Renee Asherson
James Purcell, Sr:
Ronald Herdman
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Lockwood West
King Charles It:
Peter Williams
James, Duke of York:
Alexander John
Count Bentinck, William's aide:
Ian Thompson
Betty Villiers, Mary's lady-in-waiting:
Margaret Robertson
Signor Travestini:
Geoffrey Wincott
French Ambassador:
Ralph Truman
Sergeant-Major:
Nigel Clayton
Peter, Tsar of Russia:
Anthony Jackson
Mr Halifax:
Nigel Clayton
Admiral Herbert:
Geoffrey Wincott
General van Twist:
Peter William

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