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has breakfast with PETER SMITH. FRANK TAYLOR and STUART SEATON talk to this Staffordshire farmer and his family over the breakfast table
Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
Broadcast on May 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Smith.
Unknown:
Frank Taylor
Unknown:
Stuart Seaton
Introduced By:
Anthony Parkin

I Served a Maharaja
SIR CONRAD CORFIELD spent two years as adviser to an Indian prince whose principal occupations were shooting tigers and resisting change
From the BBC Sound Archives

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Conrad Corfield

A weekly magazine for amateur gardeners
FRED WHITSEY visits Harlow Car Gardens. Harrogate. and talks to the Superintendent, GEOFFREY Smith : GEORGE GILLARD advises on the week's work
Produced by George Sigsworth

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
George Gillard
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

Un paso mais
Twenty lessons in spoken Spanish
18: La senora Diez cuenta a una amiga las aventuras de su marido
Senora Diez has returned to Madrid by plane and now tells a friend about her trip to Barcelona.
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO and PABLO Soro
Last week's broadcast (Study on 3)

Contributors

Presented By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soro

Gilbert Phelps introduces six great Russian novels and shows how they combine strong native characteristics with a powerful universal appeal.
6: Dr. Zhivago
This crowded and panoramic novel by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak about the Russian Revolution has seemed to many the only truly great novel to come out of Russia since the death of Tolstoy.
Broadcast on May 16 (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

Novel By:
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
BILL HARTLEY introduces:
Tipping and the motorist: MARGO LAWRENCE on current trends
We're on fire!: advice for the driver from PAT GREGORY
Metrication and the motorist: STANLEY TYSON discussing some forthcoming changes together with topical news and at 12.23* the latest traffic report
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Introduces:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Stanley Tyson
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

with Stephen Murray , Jon Pertwee Leslie Phillips
A chronicle of events aboard H.M.S. Trautbridge written by LAWRIE WYMAN and involving RICHARD CALDICOT HEATHER CHASEN, TENNIEL EVANS Michael BATES , ELIZABETH MORGAN LAWRIE WYMAN
Announcer, MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Produced by Alastair SCOTT JOHNSTON
Broadcast on January 26 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Written By:
Lawrie Wyman
Unknown:
Tenniel Evans
Unknown:
Michael Bates
Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Unknown:
Lawrie Wyman
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

The Minister's Mallard by Alan Melville with Michael Denison and Coral Browne
No imaginary Mallard, this-but a bird from St. James's Park who nests in the Minister's 'Out' tray.
Produced by GUY VAESEN
Broadcast on May 17. 1967 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Michael Denison
Unknown:
Coral Browne
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Miss Dempster:
Beth Boyd
Mr Harrison:
Donald Pklmeah
ITV Interviewer:
Clive Francis
BBC Interviewer:
Antony Viccars
The Minister:
Michael Denison
Janet:
Coral Browne
Roger:
David Glover
David:
Clive Francis
Mr Coombes:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs, Nicholson:
Josephine Tewson
Mr Akwiyuyu:
Dennis Alara Peters
Jennifer:
Rosalind Shanks
Mrs Frome:
Betty Huntley Wright

from the Regions
Introduced by OLIVE SHAPLEY including:
Coming to terms with it: MARY ROWLAND talks about living in a country cottage
Brucellosis: PAT CALLAGHAN investigates a health hazard
The electric man cometh: AUDREY KAYE accompanies an electricity man on his daily round
In partnership: MARIANNE AND David DALMOUR
An all-female fellowship: MOLLY PORTER discusses plans for an Antarctic expedition
Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
Tenlh of eleven instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Talks:
Mary Rowland
Unknown:
Pat Callaghan
Unknown:
Audrey Kaye
Unknown:
David Dalmour
Unknown:
Molly Porter
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
Kegent street. London. S.W.I
Rpt.: 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
Phyllis Sellick (piano)
Cyril Smith (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by Malcolm Arnold Sir Arthur Bliss
Part 1: Purcell, Bliss, Elgar

Contributors

Piano:
Phyllis Sellick
Piano:
Cyril Smith
Conducted By:
Malcolm Arnold
Conducted By:
Sir Arthur Bliss

The novel by Heron Carvic adapted for radio by Betty Lambda
with Marjorie Westbury and Gerald Deacon

When Miss Seeton found herself the horrified witness of a brutal murder she little thought that her modest gifts as an artist could prove so valuable to the police.

(Repeated: Monday 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Heron Carvic
Adapter:
Betty Lambda
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Miss Seeton:
Marjorie Westbury
Supt Delphick:
Gerald Deacon
Det-Sgt Bob Ranger:
Sean Arnold
Jack Danby:
Malcolm Hayes
Bang Glory:
Kenneth Cranham
Nigel Colvedon:
James Hunter
Martha Bloomer:
Pauline Letts
Erica Nuttel:
Grizelda Hervey
Norah Blaine:
Ella Milns
Mrs Venning:
Barbara Bliss
Angela Venning:
Frances Jeater
The Rev Arthur Treeves:
Godfrey Kenton
Trafford Morton:
James Thomason
Sgt Potter:
John Puller
Cesar Lebel:
Nigel Lambert
Shirley:
Patricia Gallimore
Cliff:
Peter Bartlett
Stan Blower:
Roger Gale
Geoffrey:
Peter Pacey
Mrs Potter and other voices:
Joyce Carpenter

Sir Bernard Miles recalls the years of a widely varied and adventurous life working in all fields of entertainment and illustrates how his character, so strongly moulded in childhood, has, despite all his efforts to change it, remained invincibly rural.
Produced by John Dyas

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Bernard Miles
Produced By:
John Dyas

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