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Talking Italian
A series of twenty lessons
10: Elena ad una mostra d'arte
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO tLast Tuesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio

Crossroads
Recorded before an audience of the Birmingham and West Midland Group of the Institute of Advanced Motorists
Answering their questions
ALAN PLATT. Competitions Manager of the Ford Motor Company JACK HAY. Motoring Correspondent of the Birmingham Post
THE LAWYER. whose practice is solely concerned with motoring matters
HARRY SHILLABEER , Chief Instructor of the British Motor Corporation Advanced Driving School
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim PESTRIDGE followed by Road Conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Platt.
Unknown:
Jack Hay.
Unknown:
Harry Shillabeer
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

Another sort of radio show
Written by Eric Merriman for Ian Carmichael , Joan Sims
Hugh Paddick , Gordon Faith
Cool music from ROSEMARY SQUIRES
THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
THE KEN THORNE ORCHESTRA
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on August 9 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Rosemary Squires
Unknown:
Ken Thorne
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Brian Epstein, the artists' manager who brought the Liverpool sound to London, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Brian Epstein
Producer:
Monica Chapman

The Passenger by Michael Hardwick with Trader Faulkner
' In every office you'll find a used-up old passenger like me. sitting on a pension and keeping some young David Stevens from getting at his birthright.'
Cast in order of speaking:
Samuel Henderson. ..JAMEs DALE
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Unknown:
Samuel Henderson.
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Merle:
Jo Manning Wilson
Dawn:
Isabel Rennie
Janice:
Valerie Kirkbright
Barbara Shaw:
Mary Wimbush
John Pitt:
Eric Anderson
David Stevens:
Trader Faulkner
Jean Stevens:
Eva Haddon
Barney Rudge:
Norman Claridge
Arthur Henderson:
George Merritt

HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by REX PALMER M.C. , CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by BILL BEBB
Dances: Waltz: Rosetta Two-step; Royal Empress Tango; Sherrie Saunter ; Hesitation Waltz; Bradford Barn Dance; Felice Foxtrot

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rex Palmer M.C.
Produced By:
Bill Bebb
Unknown:
Sherrie Saunter
Unknown:
Felice Foxtrot

Breath of Spring
A comedy by Peter Coke adapted for radio by the author-
Five Kensington residents, in the ' tea-time ' of life, find joy and excitement when they accidentally discover a surprising aptitude for crime.
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
See page 7

Contributors

Comedy By:
Peter Coke
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Alice, Lady Miller:
Grizelda Hervey
Lily Thompson:
Isobel Rennie
Dame Beatrice Appelby, D B E:
Olga Lindo
Miss Elizabeth Hatfield (Hatty):
Hilda Kriseman
Brigadier Albert Rayne, C B ,C.M.G., M.V.O:
Peter Coke
Miss Nanette Parry (Nan):
Mary Wimbush
Detective Sergeant Pape:
Timothy Harley
Constable Kemp:
Nigel Graham

News and views on books from JOHN MORRIS , MARY STOCKS DAVID WILLIAMS
URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS in conversation with MARTIN COOPER about R.V.W. and PETER FLEMING on Wavell
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
John Morris
Unknown:
David Williams
Unknown:
Ursula Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Martin Cooper
Unknown:
Peter Fleming
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Schubert
Quartet in G minor
11.23' Quartet in E fiat major played by the English String Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello)
Tenth of thirteen weekly pro. grammes of muslcTjy Schubert

Contributors

Violin:
Nona Liddell
Violin:
Eleanor St. George
Viola:
Marjorie Lempfert

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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