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Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near-beginners
39: ¿Qué vamos a hacer manana? 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.
17: Zukunftsplane
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 9
Introduced by LUCIA LIU with the help of TERRY CHANG
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and record are available
This week's Study: page 33

Contributors

Introduced By:
Lucia Liu
Unknown:
Terry Chang

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Motoring and Marriage: GERALD SANCTUARY of the National Marriage Guidance Council on a possible cause of accidents
How to be a Good Passenger: ANNE HOPE of the Sun with some often overlooked points
When you have passed the Test: 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

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
James Pestridge

with Ken Dodd
JOHN LAURIE. PATRICIA HAYES
GRAHAM STARK, JUDITH CHALMERS
DOODY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA
Directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Script by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast on Dec. 3. 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

Seascape by DAVID GEARY from the novel Mr. Holmes at Sea by CONRAD Voss BARK with Leslie Phillips Norman Wooland and Ralph Truman
It was the Summer Recess, and Downing Street was almost empty. The Prime Minister was in Yorkshire. the Chancellor somewhere down in Cornwall. And then the phones started ringing ...
Produced by David GEARY
Leslie Phillips is in 'The Man Most Likely To ...' at the Vaudeville Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
David Geary
Unknown:
Conrad Voss
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Norman Wooland
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Produced By:
David Geary
Produced By:
Leslie Phillips
Frensham:
Haydn Jones
Primberton:
Denis McCartry
Holmes:
Leslie Phillips
Sergeant Tremaine:
Peter Williams
Constable:
Michael Deacon
Lt.-Col. Hubbard, the Chief Constable:
Ralph Truman
Tom Easthope:
Lockwood West
Sister Privet:
Freda Dowie
Prime Minister:
Francis de Wolff
Corporal:
Leonard Fenton
Captain Matlock:
Peter Baldwin
Man on the boat:
Norman Wooland

Introduced by JEAN METCALFE
Brian Jackson , Director of the Advisory Centre for Education, a recent Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour
Minnie's protection racket: NORMA HUXTABLE tells another true story about her pig
The place of the Eagles: JOAN PYPER visits Tzavo and other National Parks in East Africa
Co on-be funny: CHRISTOPHER JARMAN would rather not
The Queen's English: a discussion on its uses and abuses, with KATHARINE WHITEHORN , PROFESSOR A. C. GIMSON , and K. GRAHAM THOMSON
Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day by KATHERINE MANSFIELD abridged by Cristina Sellors Read by JOHN ROBINSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe
Introduced By:
Brian Jackson
Unknown:
Norma Huxtable
Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Christopher Jarman
Unknown:
Katharine Whitehorn
Unknown:
Professor A. C. Gimson
Unknown:
K. Graham Thomson
Unknown:
Katherine Mansfield
Abridged By:
Cristina Sellors
Read By:
John Robinson

by David Hopkins
with Bernard Brown, Hector Ross and Peter Pratt

The little village of Bellsborough disliked intensely the idea of amalgamating with its upstart neighbour, Waverley New Town. After all, Bellsborough had been mentioned in the Domesday Book. But it seemed that the march of progress was going to mow down the opposition - until the discovery of an ancient document in Bellsborough museum offered the villagers an unusual alternative...

Contributors

Writer:
David Hopkins
Producer:
Betty Davies
Ida Macdonald:
Freda Dowie
Jimmy Temple:
Bernard Brown
Anna Glanville:
Rosalind Shanks
Jack Glanville:
Peter Pratt
The Rev Leslie Hoskins:
Noel Iliff
Major Prior:
Hector Ross
Arthur Gilbey:
Leonard Fenton
Enoch Barton:
Haydn Jones
Eleanor Prior:
Marjorie Westbury
Bert:
Leroy Lingwood
Sir William Avory:
William Fox
Waterworth:
Wilfrid Carter
Rupert Thorpe Hughes:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Brownlaw:
Jan Edwards
Brownlaw:
Alexander John

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