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Background to Musical Form
The twenty-fifth of twenty-seven programmes about the structure of music and its composition
Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Produced by Peter Dodd tBroadcast on June 16 (Third Net.)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ridout
Produced By:
Peter Dodd

The second of a series of nineteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. ' 0 ' Level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course
Radio Tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter, EMMELINE GARNETT
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Friday's broadcast (Third Net.)
The first four programmes will be broadcast weekly at this time, and a further series of fifteen between March and June 1966
Details o/ the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge

Contributors

Scriptwriter:
Emmeline Garnett
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Nine talks on the history and relationship of the principal languages of Europe
7: The Slavonic Languages by ROBERT AUTY
Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London
Produced by Rosemary Jellis tBroadcast on May 6 (Third Net.)

Contributors

Produced By:
Rosemary Jellis

Introduced by Bill Hartley

Ignorance is No Defence: Charles Brandreth, a motoring lawyer, explains one of the principles of British Law.

A Canadian in London: after twelve years of driving in Toronto Leonard Court describes the horrors of London traffic.

The Problem of Noise: Kenneth Garrett, Editor of Automobile Engineer, explains the difficulty of laying down noise standards for motor vehicles.

Latest road traffic information.

Contributors

Presenter:
Bill Hartley
Speaker:
Charles Brandreth
Speaker:
Leonard Court
Speaker:
Kenneth Garrett

Five characters in search of the authors - Barry Took and Marty Feldman
Starring Kenneth Horne
with KENNETH WILLIAMS, HUGH PADDICK, BETTY MARSDEN, BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN and THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on May 23 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Ian Hunter, Impresario and Director-General of the Commonwealth Arts Festival discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Ian Hunter
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Not My Pigeon by Arnold Yarrow with Nigel Graham and Fraser Kerr
Time: August 1940. When Private Lofty Davies, stationed in Scotland with an Infantry Training Regiment, was refused, compassionate leave, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Yarrow
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Drill Instructor:
Wilfrid Carter
Sergeant Clarry:
Bruce Beeby
Private Lofty Davies:
Nigel Graham
Private Wibberley:
Gordon Gardner
Captain Latham:
Michael McClain
Corporal MacBride:
Fraser Kerr
Flying Officer Venson:
Tim Seely
Flight Lieutenant Handy:
Gordon Faith
Farmwoman:
Eva Stuart
Jerzy Dibrowitz:
Peter Marinker
Mrs Turvey:
Anna Gilcrist
Vera:
Jane Wenham
Mr Greene:
Hamlyn Benson
Walter:
Basil Jones

The Voyage to Guiana by Norman Ginsbury with Robert Harris
John Ruddock , June Tobin Duncan Mclntyre
A treacherous King, a smooth Ambassador, and a great man who was their victim.
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Repeated on Monday at 3.15 See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Ginsbury
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Unknown:
John Ruddock
Unknown:
Tobin Duncan McLntyre
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Sir Walter Ralegh:
Robert Harris
Sir Francis Bacon:
John Ruddock
James I, King of England:
Duncan McIntyre
Bess Ralegh:
June Tobin
Robert Carr:
Leo Maguire
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury:
John Dearth
Sir William Wade:
Wilfred Babbage
Henry, Prince of Wales:
Gabriel Woolf
Sir George Villiers:
Anthony Hall
Sir Lewis Stukely:
Eric Anderson
Count Gondomar, Spanish Ambassador:
Raf de la Torre
Sir Henry Montague, Lord Chief Justice:
Walter Fitzgerald
Henry Yelverton:
Noel Howleti
Sir Thomas Coventry:
Godfrey Kenton

Theatre
LAURENCE KITCHIN on the Lunts and on Eric Bentley 's The Life of the Drama, and talking to
DENNIS ARUNDELL about his The Story of Sadler's
Wells ADRIAN MITCHELL , with words and music, on The Lyrics of Noel Coward
T. G. ROSENTHAL on some recently published plays, including Four Plays by Patrick White
GERARD FAY on Sean O'Casey Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin
Unknown:
Eric Bentley
Unknown:
Dennis Arundell
Unknown:
Wells Adrian Mitchell
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
T. G. Rosenthal
Unknown:
Patrick White
Unknown:
Gerard Fay
Unknown:
Sean O'Casey
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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