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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near-beginners
38 : La Senora Martin cambia diner
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A book is available

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo

Everyday German by radio
TwenLy 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.
16: Ausftug auf den Wolkenstein
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A book and records are available

Contributors

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

Fifteen lessons in spoken Mandarin for those who followed Introduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.
Programme 8
Introduced by LUCIA Liu with the help of TERRY CHANG
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and record are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Lucia Liu
Unknown:
Terry Chang

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
The Absolute Offence: CHARLES BRANDRETH on a trend in motoring law
Motoring in Germany: the motoring laws, the police, and the visitor, by JOE AVRACH
Before and After the Driving Test: some advice from ANNE HALL, a driving instructor in Yorkshire together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by James Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Brandreth
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
James Pestridge

with Ken Dodd
JOHN LAURIE , PATRICIA HAYES
GRAHAM STARK, JUDITH CHALMERS
DODDY'S DlDDY ORCHESTRA
Directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Script by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast on Nov. 26. 1967 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Directed By:
Geoff Alderson
Script By:
Eddie Braben
Script By:
Ken Dodd
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

The Fool Killer by Helen Eustis adapted by ERIC MACDONALD
Period: Just after the American Civil War.
The story concerns George, a twelve-year-old orphan who runs away from his foster-parents-his adventures, his meetings with a varied collection of characters ranging from the grotesque to the gentle, and how. on crossing the path of the Fool Killer, he learns to become a man.
Produced by Guy VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Eustis
Adapted By:
Eric MacDonald
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
George Mellish:
Mark Wheeler
Narrator:
Eddie Matthews
Old Crab:
Bessie Love
Dirty Jim Jelliman:
David Bauer
Ova Fanshawe:
Margaret Robertson
Henry Fanshawe:
Peter Baldwin
Milo Bogardus:
Norman Chancer
Brother Arkwright:
Peter Baldwin
Brother Arkwright's mother:
Bessie Love
Reverend Spotts:
David Bauer
Widder Perriman:
Margaret Robertson
St Elmo's mother:
Margaret Robertson
Mr Galt:
David Bauer
Mrs Galt:
Bessie Love

Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Betty Harsden: a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
Check up: ELISABETH BRISTOW reports on newspaper advertisements for work to be done at home
Oh! What a Lovely War!: MARY WIMBUSH and RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH talk to Teresa McGonagle
Travel on a shoe-string: two girls talk about going halfway round the world on hopefulness and a little money
The Woman's Page: MARY STOTT of The Guardian. FELICITY GREEN of the Daily Mirror, and SUZANNE PUDDEFOOT of The Times discuss their aims and attitudes
A Dill Pickle by KATHERINE MANSFIELD abridged by Cristina Sellors Read by SHEILA BALLANTINE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Betty Harsden
Unknown:
Elisabeth Bristow
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Mary Stott
Unknown:
Suzanne Puddefoot
Unknown:
Katherine Mansfield
Abridged By:
Cristina Sellors
Read By:
Sheila Ballantine

ROYAL PHILLARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM LUCIA Popp (soprano) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORG FISCHER GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) sung in German NICOLAI GEDDDA (tenor) MUNICH STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA Conducted by HEINRICH BENDER CHRISTIAN FERRAS BERLIN PIHLHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

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
Repeated: Tuesday, 12.25 p.m.

Contributors

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

Introduced by ' David Franklin
JACQUELINE DELMAN (soprano) WILLIAM McALPINE (tenor)
THE GALA CHORUS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS DODS
Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from La Boheme (Puccini), II Trovatore (Verdi), Faust (Gounod), and Tannhduser (Wagner).

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Franklin
Soprano:
Jacqueline Delman
Tenor:
William McAlpine
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Produced By:
Gareth Walters

A romance by Bernard Shaw
Millicent Martin as Eliza Doolittle, Paul Daneman as Professor Higgins, Francis de Wolff as Alfred Doolittle in...

with Mark Dignam, Daphne Newton Francis de Wolff and Sylvia Coleridge
The play adapted for radio and produced by John Powell
Mark Dignam is in ' Halfway Up the Tree ' at the Queen's Theatre. London
Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.
See page 32

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Adapted for radio and produced by:
John Powell
The Author:
Denys Hawthorne
Clara Eynsford Hill:
Carol Mason
Mrs Eynsford Hill:
Gladys Spencer
Freddy Eynsford Hill:
Peter Baldwin
Eliza Doolittle:
Millicent Martin
Colonel Pickering:
Mark Dignam
Professor Henry Higgins:
Paul Daneman
Mrs Pearce, his housekeeper:
Daphne Newton
Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father:
Francis de Wolff
Mrs Higgins, the Professor's mother:
Sylvia Coleridge
Spenser, the parlourmaid:
Carol Marsh
Footman:
Leroy Lingwood
Footman:
Alan Dudley
Zoltan Karpathy:
Denis McCarthy
The Host:
John Wyse
The Hostess:
Barbara Mitchell
Constable:
Christopher Bidmead
Constable:
John Wyse
Other parts played by:
Lockwood West.
Other parts played by:
Betty Hardy
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

Thomas Barman
Thomas Barman. until recently the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent and before that a foreign correspondent for The Times, spent the last two years of the war as a member of the British Embassy's staff in Moscow. There he watched the curious and often uneasy diplomatic game as the Allies began to win the ' hot ' war and to prepare for the ' cold ' war that was to follow.
Produced by Roger Lazar
Repeated: Friday, 4.0 p.m.
See page 33

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Barman
Unknown:
Thomas Barman.
Produced By:
Roger Lazar

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