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Biology International by A. A. MILES, F.R.S.
During the next decade biologists join forces in a great international biological programme. They are to study world productivity and its relation to human welfare to discover the full potentialities of the land and ocean communities of the world. Until recently Professor Miles was Chairman of the British National Committee of I.B.P.

Talking Italian
13: Al Ristorante
Script by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Produced by ELSIE FERGUSON f Last Tuesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available
10.55 Introduction to Russian
A course of twenty lessons
Lesson 12 by PROFESSOR DENNIS WARD with the help of KONSTANTIN IRINSKY
Produced by TONY CASH
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet is available
11.20 Shorthand Dictation
80 words a minute to verbatim
Compiled by MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system A booklet is available
11.40 Spanish for Beginners
A series of forty lessons
Lesson 13
Introduced by JACINTA CASTlLLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Anthony Watson and Edith R. Baer
Produced by EDITH R. BAER
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Script By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Script By:
Elsie Ferguson
Introduced By:
Pietro Giorgetti
Introduced By:
Ariella Reggio
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson
Unknown:
Professor Dennis Ward
Produced By:
Tony Cash
Unknown:
Mary De La Mahotiere
Introduced By:
Jacinta Castlllejo
Unknown:
Pablo Soto
Script By:
Anthony Watson
Script By:
Edith R. Baer
Produced By:
Edith R. Baer
Dolores:
Amelia Diaz
Pepe:
Carlos Novi

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Old Year - New Year
Three motoring journalists survey the motoring scene
MAXWELL BOYD of The Sunday Times ALAN BRINTON Editor of Motor Racing and other journals FRANCES HOWELL of Homes and Gardens
Ancillary Lights: FRANK A. BROWN , Chief Constable of Norwich, talks about the regulations for additional lighting equipment
A Matter of Uplift: another motoring story from Sam Henry
Road conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Alan Brinton
Unknown:
Frances Howell
Unknown:
Frank A. Brown
Unknown:
Sam Henry

taking the lid off life with ROSEMARY SQUIRES and THE SEEKERS and WOOLF PHILLIPS
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Devised by Al Read
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
The broadcast of November 13 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Squires
Written By:
Ronnie Taylor
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

John Clements discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Last Monday's broadcast)
(John Clements is appearing in 'Robert and Elizabeth' at the Lyric Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
John Clements
Producer:
Monica Chapman

The Amorous Prawn by Anthony Kimmins adapted for radio by BRIAN MILLER with Evelyn Laye
Sydney Tafler
William Sylvester
When the General Officer Commanding is away, his charminK wife decides to turn their official residence in Argyllshire into a Kuest house in order to increase the family budget.
Produced by HUGH STEWART

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Kimmins
Unknown:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Evelyn Laye
Unknown:
Sydney Tafler
Unknown:
William Sylvester
Produced By:
Hugh Stewart
Corporal Sydney Green:
Sydney Tafler
Private Biddy O'Hara:
Rosalind Shanks
Private Suzie Tidmarsh:
Elizabeth Morgan
Lady Fitzadam:
Evelyn Laye
Major-General Sir Hamish Fitzadam, K B E , c b , D S O:
Ross Hutchinson
Private Albert Huggins:
David Bird
Private Willie Maltravers:
Peter Marinker
Sam Goulansky:
John Brandon
Larry Hoffman:
William Sylvester
The Prawn:
William Fox

To mark her fifty years in the theatre
AUDREY CAMERON produces Letter from the General by Maurice McLoughlin adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
The Reverend Mother and the nuns of a small mission station in an eastern country expect to be asked to leave by the Communist General in command. Sister Mag. dalen. who taught him as a small boy, has written to him ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Chinese soldiers played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Repeated on Monday at 3.15 See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Cameron
Unknown:
Maurice McLoughlin
Unknown:
Cynthia Pughe
Sister Lucy:
Jean Taylor-Smith
Sister Henry:
Marjorie Westbury
Sister Bridget:
Sheila Manahan
Reverend Mother:
Joan Matheson
Sister Magdalen:
Mary O'Farrell
Arthur Stilton, the British Consul:
Frank Duncan
Ruth Stilton, his wife:
Mary Wimbush
Captain Lee (in the Communist Army):
David March
Father Schiller:
Austin Trevor

News and views on books from
EDWARD BLISHEN
SYLVIA CLAYTON
JOHN MORRIS
DAVID PIPER talking to JOHN HALE about The Companion Guide to London and MICHAEL DE LA BEDOYERE on The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen
Unknown:
Sylvia Clayton
Unknown:
John Morris
Unknown:
David Piper
Unknown:
John Hale
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op.
71 No.
11.21' String Quartet in B minor, Op. 64 No. played by the ENGLISH STRING QUARTET Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (ceHo)
Fourth broadcast. Part of the Third
Programme Invitation Concert of February 8. 1962

Contributors

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

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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