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Es geht weiter
Everyday German by radio
A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language
Lesson
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Third Net.)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler

Introduced by Bill Hartley

The National Road Safety Advisory Council: Sir Alex Samels, C.B.E., Adviser on Road Traffic to the Minister of Transport and Deputy Chairman of the Council, talks about its aims and methods

Convention on Road Accidents: a report by Raymond Baxter on the proceedings of the Institution of Municipal Engineers held in London this week

The Brighton Run: Pat Gregory of the R.A.C. talks about tomorrow's commemoration run for veteran cars

Road conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Presenter:
Bill Hartley
Speaker:
Sir Alex Samels
Reporter:
Raymond Baxter
Speaker:
Pat Gregory

with Ken Dodd
John Laurie, Patricia Hayes, Wallas Eaton, Percy Edwards, Judith Chalmers and The Migil 5
Doddy's Diddy Orchestra
Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer
Script written by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by Bill Worsley

(Broadcast on April 25 - Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Juidith Chalmers
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Unknown:
Eddie Braben
Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Sir John Rothenstein, Rector of the University of St. Andrews, writer, and former Director of the Tate Gallery discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island
(Extended version of last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Sir John Rothenstein

by Francis Brett Young and William Armstrong adapted for radio by Muriel Levy
Produced by Anthony Cornish in the BBC's Midland studios

See facing page

Contributors

Author:
Francis Brett Young
Author:
William Armstrong
Adapted by:
Muriel Levy
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Rose Willis:
Kathleen H Hughes
Lilian Willis:
Jane Williams
Edward Willis:
Simon Lack
Walter Willis:
Anthony Woodruff
Celia Stafford:
Eileen Barry
Arnold Stafford:
John Hencher
Mr Muir:
Douglas Storm
Mr Stebbings:
George Woolley
Lord Henry Malpas:
Peter Stephens

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Introduced by Rex Palmer
M.C. Charles Crathorn

The dances: Waltz; On Leave Fox-trot; White Rose Tango; Sunny-side Saunter; Freesia Waltz; Crinoline Gavotte; Manhattan Blues

Contributors

Presenter:
Rex Palmer
M.C.:
Charles Crathorn
Musicians:
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Producer:
Roger Eames

Vilem Tausky conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with Patricia Clark (soprano) John Mitchinson (tenor) Semprini (piano) and The Gala Chorus, Directed by John McCarthy
Introduced by John Roberts

The programme includes music from La Traviata by Verdi, The Three-Cornered Hat by Falla, and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Roberts
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Soprano:
Patricia Clark
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Pianist:
null Semprini
Singers:
The Gala Chorus
Musical Director:
John McCarthy
Producer:
Elizabeth Johnson

by J.B. Priestley adapted for radio by Peggy Wells
with Eric Anderson, Philip Bond, Barbara Mitchell

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

(Repeated: Monday, 3.15)

Contributors

Author:
J.B. Priestley
Adapted by:
Peggy Wells
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Pamela Fotheringham:
Nicolette Bernard
Major Buttershaw:
Eric Anderson
Mrs Probus:
Vivienne Chatterton
Lesley Dereham:
Barbara Mitchell
Colonel Risborough:
Derek Birch
Peter Warton:
Philip Bond
Ivor Kemp:
Antony Viccars
Douglas Barrow:
Patrick Newell

Gavid Maxwell, in Edinburgh. talking to Magnus Magnusson about his autobiography The House of Elrig

John Terraine on Alister Horne's The Fall of Paris

John Moore on the re-issue of Henry Williamson's classic Tarka the Otter

Anthony Haden-Guest on the life stories of Edith Piaf, Humphrey Bogart, and Flo Ziegfeld

Introduced by Peter Barker

Contributors

Unknown:
Gavin Maxwell
Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
John Terraine
Unknown:
Alister Horne
Unknown:
Henry Williamson
Unknown:
Anthony Haden-Guest
Presenter:
Peter Barker
Producer:
Joseph Hone

British Chamber Music played by Margaret Kitchin (piano) Ifor James (horn) Wilfrid Parry (piano)

Thirty-second of a weekly series ranging from Elgar to the present day.
(Second broadcast)

Contributors

Pianist:
Margaret Kitchin
Horn player:
Ifor James
Pianist:
Wilfrid Parry

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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