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Talking Italian
A series of twenty lessons intended for listeners who have already done some Italian
1: Una visita importante
Script by Piotro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Produced by ELSIE FERGUSON
Last Tuesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Script By:
Piotro Giorgetti
Script By:
Elsie Ferguson
Introduced By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

A series of forty lessons for listeners with no previous knowledge of the language Lesson 1
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Anthony Watson and Edith R. Baer
Produced by EDITH R. BAER
Last Thursday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available
See page 7

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacinta Castillejo
Script By:
Anthony Watson
Script By:
Edith R. Baer
Produced By:
Edith R. Baer

Crossroads
Before an audience of members of the Severn Valley Motor Club in The Castle. Shrewsbury
Answering their questions: ALEC A. RENNIE
Assistant Chief Constable of Shropshire PATRICK M. GREGORY
Chief Executive of the Royal Automobile Club
ALAN PLATT
Competitions Manager, the Ford Motor Company JOSEPH LOWREY
Technical writer on automobile engineering Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim PESTRIDGE and Weekend Road Conditions

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec A. Rennie
Unknown:
Shropshire Patrick M. Gregory
Unknown:
Alan Platt
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

with Ken Dodd
DUNCAN MACRAE , JUDITH CHALMERS
WALLAS EATON , PERCY EDWARDS
PATRICIA HAYES , PETER HUDSON and THE BACHELORS
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MALCOLM LocKYER
Script written by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by Bill WORSLEY
Broadcast on June 7 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
Duncan MacRae
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Peter Hudson
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Written By:
Eddie Braben
Written By:
Ken Dodd
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Blind Justice by R. B. Amos
' Other boys have been expelled for the very same thing that Firth has done: yet because he has more brains and therefore less excuse, he gets preferential treatment. Why? '
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
R. B. Amos
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Jones:
Gordon Gardner
Forrester:
Bruce Beeby
Evans:
Anthony Hall
Fairbrass:
Peter Bartlett
Squirrel:
Patrick Barr
Carrington:
John Ruddock
Edwards:
William Fox
Sir Gerald:
Hamlyn Benson
Mrs Philbeam:
Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Coggles:
Gladys Spencer
MacGregor:
Alan Haines
Mrs Chubb:
Vivienne Chatterton

by Kieran Tunney adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
With Maurice Denham, Olga Lindo, Helen Horton

Deposed royalty spoiling in the South of France are alerted by the prospect of the return to power of one of their number, ex-King Otto of Melnik.

(Repeated on Monday at 3.15)
(Helen Horton is in "The Reluctant Peer" at the Duchess Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Kieran Tunney
Adapted by:
Cynthia Pughe
Producer:
Norman Wright
Ex-Queen Olga of Bratislavia:
Mary Wimbush
Ex-King Ferdinand of Bratislavia:
Gabriel Woolf
Ex-Princess Natasha of Bratislavia:
Penelope Lee
Lady Clarissa Ormood-Tanner:
Hester Paton Brown
Ex-Queen Sophia of Cravany:
Olga Lindo
Louise:
Jill Booty
Kate Sedgwick:
Helen Horton
Ex-King Otto of Melnik:
Maurice Denham
Radio announcer:
Peter Marinker

Schubert
Duo in A major
11.21' Impromptu in B flat major, for piano
11.30' Rondo brillant, In B minor played by FREDERICK GRINKE (violin)
JOSEPH WEINGARTEN (piano)
First of a series of thirteen weekly programmes of Schubert's chamber music

Contributors

Violin:
Frederick Grinke
Piano:
Joseph Weingarten

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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