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Talking Italian
A series of twenty lessons
12: Gita in campagna
Introduced by Pietro GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Last Tuesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio

A course of twenty lessons
Lesson 11 by PROFESSOR DENNIS WARD with the help of KONSTANTlN IRINSKY
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet is available
11.20 Shorthand Dictation
80 words a minute to verbatim
Compiled by VALENTINE McNEFF and MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Dennis Ward
Unknown:
Mary de la Mahotiere

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Stop! Thief!: anti - theft measures for motorists by CHIEF INSPECTOR BARDSLEY of the Manchester City Police
Keeping the Car Out of Doors: hints for overcoming the winter hazards by HARRY HEYWOOD , Editor of The Practical Motorist
New Facts on Drinking and Driving: by BARBARA PRESTON
Motoring in Mexico: by DORITA Y PEPE, two entertainers who have recently returned from that country followed by Road Conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Harry Heywood
Unknown:
Barbara Preston

Another sort of radio show
Written by ERIC MERRIMAN for Ian Carmichael
Joan Sims , Hugh Paddick
Cordon Faith
Cool music from ROSEMARY SQUIRES
THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
THE KEN THORNE Orchestra f Broadcast of August 23 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Rosemary Squires

You Don'Know Anythin' by Nick McCarty
' To be top worker in the factory is all important to ageing Bill Gadd , but his reign must end
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH in the BBC Midland studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick McCarty
Unknown:
Bill Gadd
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Ben:
John Baddeley
Pete:
Alan Devereux
Johnny:
Graham Weston
Alan:
Jon Rollason
Bill:
Walter Dalby
Pat:
Chrys Salt
Mrs Gadd:
Eileen Baxter
First boy:
Gerald Turner
Second boy:
Bill McLean
Joan:
Jill Mears
Ann:
Jill Betts
Barman:
Barrie Fletcher

The Crimson Star freely adapted by Val Gielgud from Anthony Hope 's novel Sophy of Kravonia
Malcolm Keen and Mary Law with Norman Shelley and Gabriel Woolf
The action takes place In 1871, in Kravonia, a small state somewhere in south-eastern Europe.
Trumpet fanfares played by Denis Egan
Music selected by Cynthia Pughe
Produced by VAL GIFLGUD
Repeated on Monday at 3.15
Mary Law is in ' The Right Honourable Gentleman ' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London

Contributors

Adapted By:
Val Gielgud
Unknown:
Anthony Hope
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Played By:
Denis Egan
Unknown:
Cynthia Pughe
Produced By:
Val Giflgud
Capt Markart:
Nigel Graham
Jan Zerkovich:
Patrick Barr
Marie Zerkovich:
Elizabeth Morgan
Sophy Grouch:
Mary Law
Sergius, Prince of Slavna:
Gabriel Woolf
Capt ' Hercules Mistitch:
William Fox
Lieut Sterkoff:
Frederick Treves
Lieut Rastatz:
Bruce Beeby
Lepage:
Norman Claridge
Colonel Nikolas Stafnitz:
Malcolm Hayes
General Petrovics:
Norman Shelley
King Alexis of Kravonia:
Malcolm Keen
The Countess Ellenburg:
Cécile Chevreau
Alexis:
Jo Manning Wilson
Dr Natcheff:
Kenneth Dight
Sergeant-Major:
Fraser Kerr
Ambassador:
John Ruddock
Capt Lukovich:
Wilfrid Carter

News and views on books from CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
VERNON SCANNELL , MARY STOCKS
SIR MILES THOMAS talking to
DENNIS DESOUTTER about Out on a Wing and STUART HALL on Abundance for Whatr
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Christine Brooke-Rose
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Dennis Desoutter
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Schubert
Quartet movement in C minor
11.11* Quartet in A minor played by the LONDON STRING QUARTET Carl Pini (violin)
John Tunnell (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Twelfth of thirteen weekly programmes of music by Schubert

Contributors

Violin:
Carl Pini
Violin:
John Tunnell
Viola:
Keith Cummings
Cello:
Douglas Cameron

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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