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A weekly magazine for amateur gardeners introduced by JOHN STREET
MARNY MACINTOSH gives some tips to the amateur plant collector; JOHN WRIGHT talks about planting early strawberries: IAN GREENFIELD advises on the summer treatment of lawns: GEORGE GILLARD gives a guide to the week's work
Produced by George Sigsworth

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Street
Talks:
John Wright
Unknown:
Ian Greenfield
Unknown:
George Gillard
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

Un paso mas
Twenty lessons in spoken Spanish
16: Diez pierde la cabeza ... y recobra el paquete
Senor and Senora Diez track down the missing contract. It has been found in a bookshop and posted back to Diez's hotel.
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO and PABLO SOTO
Last week's broadcast (Study on 3)

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto

Four programmes for amateur observers
1: Songs
A blackbird's familiar musical phrases and a woodpecker's drumming are both ' songs. This programme considers the significance of song in a bird's life and illustrates some of these deceptively different sounds.
Presented by ERIC SIMMS , with KENNETH WILLIAMSON of the B.T.O. who describes how experienced observers use song to census bird populations
Broadcast in December 1968
For a reading list send a large stamped addressed envelope to Bird Sounds. [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
Kenneth Williamson

GILBERT PHELPS introduces six great Russian novels and shows how they combine strong native characteristics with a powerful universal appeal.
4: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Broadcast on May 2 (Study on 3) For reading list, send a stamped addressed envelope to: Six Novels from Russia. [address removed]
This week's Study on 3 and accompanying publications: page 36

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Karenina

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
BILL HARTLEY introduces:
MARTYN WATKINS , Editor of Cars and Car Conversions, on braking systems
DONALD NORFOLK with advice on avoiding holiday backache
JEAN BARRATT of Woman discussing driving test nerves together with topical news and at 12.23* the latest tratlic report
Produced by Jim pestridge

Contributors

Introduces:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Martyn Watkins
Unknown:
Jean Barratt
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

with Jon Pertwee , Leslie Phillips Stephen Murray
A chronicle of events aboard H.M.S Troutbridge written by LAWRIE WYMAN and involving RICHARD CALDICOT HEATHER CHASEN, TENNIEL EVANS MICHAEL BATES , ALAN REEVE-JONES LAWRIE WYMAN
Announcer, MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Broadcast on Nov. 24. 1968 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Written By:
Lawrie Wyman
Unknown:
Tenniel Evans
Unknown:
Michael Bates
Unknown:
Alan Reeve-Jones
Unknown:
Lawrie Wyman
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Thomas Day
The adventures of a bachelor in search of a wife by Eric Ewens with and Produced by RONALD MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Ewens
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
as Thomas Day:
Martin Jarvis
as R L Edgeworth:
Denys Hawthorne
Father:
Hector Ross
Margaret:
Gay Soper
Matron:
Grizelda Hervey
Bieknell:
Michael Deacon
Vi:
Eva Haddon
Anna Seward:
Barbara Mitchell
Honora Sneyd:
Patricia Gallimore
Dr Small:
Stephen Thorne
Elizabeth:
Kate Coleridge
M Huise:
Andrë Maranne
Miss Milnes:
Frances Jeater
Announcer:
John Bentley

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Guest: Group
Captain Leonard Cheshire , V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C., Founder of the Cheshire Homes for the Sick
A plea for privacy in the hairdresser's: MAEVE BINCHY
Jennie Leigh Crutchley talks to ANITA LESLIE about her book on Sir Winston Churchill 's mother
Books and Writers:
OLGA FRANKLIN on travel books and IRENE THOMAS on new paperbacks
No Previous Experience: JUNE
ROSE with people who have started new careers in middle age
Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
Eighth of eleven jnstalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Captain Leonard Cheshire
Talks:
Jennie Leigh Crutchley
Unknown:
Sir Winston Churchill
Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Virginia M. Axline
Read By:
Rosalie Crutchley

'twixt
ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID Nixon
Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE
In the chair, ROY PLOMLEY
Devised and written by Ian Messiter produced by Peter Titheradge
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street. London. S.W.I
Rptd.: Sun., 9.30 p.m. (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge

from the Royal Albert Hall London
Geoffrey Gambold
(bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Conductor, Colin Davis
Part 1: Schubert, Mozart Mendelssohn
Part 2 at 8.50 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Bassoon:
Geoffrey Gambold
Leader:
Hugh Bean
Conductor:
Colin Davis

Our Betters by W. Somerset Maugham adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Patience Collier as Duchesse de Surennes and Joan Miller as Lady Grayston
Produced by RONALD MASON
Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Bessie:
Maureen Beck
FleminK Harvey:
Robert Howay
Thornton Clay:
Harry Towb
Pole:
Peter Baldwin
Tony Paxton:
Karl Held
The Princess della Cercola:
Madi Hedd
Lord Bleane:
John Pullen
Arthur Fenwick:
Godfrey Kenton

In 1960 Fr. Trevor Huddleston of the Community of the Resurrection was elected Bishop of Masasi. in Tanganyika. where he remained until last year when he returned to England as Bishop of Stepney. It is this period, when he was working in Tanganyika, now Tanzania, that he considers ' the time of his life ' so far. At his new home in the East End of London he talks to HAROLD ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Huddleston
Unknown:
Harold Rogers

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