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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons
29: Pedro e Isabel en busca de piso
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A book is available

Contributors

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 material.
7: Neue Bekanntschaften
Introduced by SABINE Michael and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A handbook is available

Contributors

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

Fifteen magazine-type programmes for listeners with some knowledge of French
Programme 14
Baudelaire: Harmonie du soir Les bottes de sept lieues (14) Que c'est triste Venise
J'ai la memoire qui flanche
Speakers: PAULETTE PRENEY ,
LOUIS BLONCOURT, PAUL COUSTER
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
This week's Study: page 58

Contributors

Unknown:
Paulette Preney
Unknown:
Paul Couster

Health and Road Accidents: a medical specialist from the Road Research Laboratory gives the results of recent investigations
Early Diagnosis: a further talk by HARRY HEYWOOD on locating suspension troubles
Accidents and Insurance: a new look at the methods by D. W. ELLIOTT , Professor of Law at Newcastle University together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Talk By:
Harry Heywood
Unknown:
D. W. Elliott
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A spontaneous discussion by RUSSELL BRADDON
PHILIP HASKELL
DEE WELLS , LORD WIGG
Question-Master, DAVID JACOBS
Produced by Michael Bowen from Silverton, Devon
Last Friday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Braddon
Unknown:
Philip Haskell
Unknown:
Dee Wells
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Two-Edged Sword by Barbara Foxe
* Some people are like children on a battlefield, playing with a two-edged sword. Marriage, a job, anything worth while-they don'know how to handle it. Cut themselves to pieces, and maybe other people as well.'
Produced by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Foxe
Produced By:
Margaret Etall
Ken:
Peter Baldwin
Ron:
Ian Thompson
Julie:
Rosalind Shanks
Mother:
Pauline Letts
Father:
John Pullen
Mr Duncan:
George Merritt
Car driver:
Leonard Fenton

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
C. Day Lewis : a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
It could happen to anyone: a mother tells Barbara Mac donald the story of her eviction
Transcendental Meditation: the MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI questioned by Leslie Smith
Breakaway: June Rose talks to a young hotel worker
Pig Deal: Devon farmer's wife NORMA HUXTABLE thought she would make some money
Twentieth-century Woman: HELEN VLACHOS talks to Mollie Lee
The Foursome by MICHAEL RAPHAEL
Read by GEORGE LAYTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
C. Day Lewis
Unknown:
Barbara Mac
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Norma Huxtable
Talks:
Helen Vlachos
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Michael Raphael
Read By:
George Layton

Rome
Records including music by Rossini, Marcello, Respighi, Vivaldi. and Mendelssohn; and the Triumph Scene from Verdi's Aida
VIRTUOSI bi ROMA
ROME POLYPHONIC CHOIR I Musici
BIRGIT NILSSON , FRANCO CORELLI GRACE BUMBRY
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
OF THE ROME OPERA HOUSE Conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA

Contributors

Unknown:
Birgit Nilsson
Unknown:
Franco Corelli
Unknown:
Grace Bumbry
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

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.1

Contributors

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

BRIAN PRIESTMAN conducts the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley in a programme of music for all the family with LIZA FUCHSOVA (piano)
STUART BURROWS (tenor)
Introduced by IWAN THOMAS
Produced by Moelfryn Harries
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall. Broadcasting House, Llandaff, on January 6
The programme includes music from Mar.on by Massenet and The Magic Flute by Mozart, and the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Priestman
Leader:
Colin Staveley
Piano:
Liza Fuchsova
Tenor:
Stuart Burrows
Introduced By:
Iwan Thomas
Produced By:
Moelfryn Harries

Red Lights
The story by Georges Simenon adapted as a play for radio by ALISON PLOWDEN from the translation by NORMAN DENNY
' Had f meant to order another martini? As a rule we only had one. Perhaps I needed it. When we got back from Maine it'd be the end of the summer. Winter setting in. The days shorter and the kids at home. A more complicated life altogether with no let up
Principal characters:
Other parts: Kathleen Helme
Molly Rankin , Margaret Robertson Bruce Beeby , Hamlyn Benson Basil Jones. Michael Kilgarriff Allan McClelland , Jerry Stovin
The scenes are set in New York and New England. Time: The recent past
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Broadcast on October 4. 1965
Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.
See page 38

Contributors

Story By:
Georges Simenon
Translation By:
Norman Denny
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Michael Kilgarriff
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Unknown:
Jerry Stovin
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Steve Hogan:
Alan Tilvern
Nancy Hogan:
Mavis Villiers
Sid Halligan:
Marvin Kane
Waitress:
Sara Bracket
Telephone operator:
Eva Stuart
Nurse:
Shirley Dixon
Doctor:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Lt Murray:
Manning Wilson

Mendelssohn
Quartet in C minor. Op. 1
TUNNELL PIANO QUARTET
John Tunnell (violin) Brian Hawkins (viola) Charles Tunnell (cello) Susan Tunnell (piano)
Broadcast on May 30. 1967

Contributors

Violin:
John Tunnell
Viola:
Brian Hawkins
Cello:
Charles Tunnell
Piano:
Susan Tunnell

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