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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons
30: Revision: El Senor Diet pone gasolina
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.
8: Herr Schulze besucht Hagedorn
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A handbook and records are available

Contributors

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

A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 15
Musset: Sur une morte
Les bottes de sept lieues (15) C'était
Page d'ecriture
Speakers: PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
This week's Study: page 39

Contributors

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

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Four-wheel Drive: latest developments by COURTENAY EDWARDS of the Sunday Telegraph
Mind how you park: RUPERT Townshend-Rose explains an unusual legal point
Beware of Danger Signs: a light-hearted comment by SAM HENRY together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Courtenay Edwards
Unknown:
Rupert Townshend-Rose
Unknown:
Sam Henry
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A spontaneous discussion by SIR GERALD Nabarro M.P. ,
DAVID FRANKLIN
MAURICE EDELMAN , M.P.
JUDY INNES
Question-Master, DAVID JACOBS
Produced by Michael Bowen from a factory in Derby
Last Friday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Gerald Nabarro M.P.
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Maurice Edelman
Question-Master:
Judy Innes
Question-Master:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

February has Twenty-Eight by Alan Downer with Barbara Bolton
' I've always belonged with the losers-the people who've tried and failed..... When I was a tiny girl it seemed to me grossly unfair that one month should always have less than the others!'
Cast:
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Downer
Unknown:
Barbara Bolton
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Holly Lorimer:
Jill Cary
Mrs Gumbrill:
Marjorie Westbury
Mary Lorimer:
Barbara Bolton
George Lorimer:
Denis McCarthy
Michael Barrington:
John Pullen
Kerry Lorimer:
Brian Hewlett
Jeremy Lorimer:
Judy Bennett

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Gardeners' Sunday: visits to three private gardens open to the gardening public on May 5 Eleanor of Aquitaine: Dr. William URRY talks to Mollie Lee about a recent book on the twelfth-century queen by Regine Pernoud
Breakaway: June Rose talks to a teenage girl machinist, living in East London
A Fresh Start: CAROLINE BRECKENRIDGE is matron of an after-care hostel for young drug offenders
A Day to Squander: thoughts from Jacqueline Hicks , CHARLES Crichton , ARCHIE HILL , and others
The Exam by MICHAEL RAPHAEL. read by GEORGE LAYTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Dr. William Urry
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Regine Pernoud
Unknown:
Caroline Breckenridge
Unknown:
Jacqueline Hicks
Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Archie Hill
Unknown:
Michael Raphael.
Read By:
George Layton

ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GI.AZE 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
Repeated: Tuesday, 12.25 p.m.

Contributors

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

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Lcavins in a programme of music for all the family with JANET COSTER (mezzo-soprano) FORBES ROBINSON (bass)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from La Gioronda (Ponchielli), Mignon (Thomas), and La Boutique FantasQue (Rossini, arr.
Respighi); and Four Cornish Dances by Malcolm Arnold.
From the Camden Theatre. London Forbes Robinson broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Lcavins
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Coster
Bass:
Forbes Robinson
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold.

Better Dead by A. P. Herbert
Felix Aylmer , Eunice Gayson
Norman Shelley , Peter Williams in a comedy about a fashionable stage star's marriage ' tiU death us do part ' (but what if it doesn't?), adapted by Sir Alan from his novel Made for Man.
People in the play:
Song composed by Vivian Ellis
Pianist. VIOLA Tunnard
The play adapted for radio by Peggy Wells
Produced by H. B. Fortuin
Eunice Gayson is in ' Uproar in the House ' at the Whitehall Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
A. P. Herbert
Unknown:
Felix Aylmer
Unknown:
Eunice Gayson
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Adapted By:
Sir Alan
Composed By:
Vivian Ellis
Pianist:
Viola Tunnard
Unknown:
Peggy Wells
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Produced By:
Eunice Gayson
Dimple Day:
Margaret Robertson
Florrie:
Ella Milne
Marion Marne, d b e:
Eunice Gayson
Gerald Anstruther:
Nigel Clayton
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Felix Aylmer
Admiral Lord Caraway:
Norman Shelley
Sir Ewan Harker:
Peter Williams
King Rader:
Ralph Truman
Andrew Downer:
Christopher Bidmbad

BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with ANNE SHAW
Management consultant
SIR FRANK KEARTON
Chairman of Courtaulds
DR. MICHAEL WINSTANLEY , M.P.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Anne Shaw
Unknown:
Sir Frank Kearton
Unknown:
Dr. Michael Winstanley

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