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Shorthand Dictation
90-130 w.p.m.
Compiled by Joyce HARBISON
Next Shorthand programme: 50-80
' w.p.m.: Monday at 6.30 (Study)
A booklet Is available
10.45 Let's Go ! A course of twenty lessons in spoken Russian for near-beginners. Lesson 11 given by VAUGHAN JAMES , MARINA RYAN and VICTOR GREGORIY
Last Tuesday broadcast (Study)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Harbison
Unknown:
Vaughan James
Unknown:
Marina Ryan

The eleventh of the main 'series of fifteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. O-level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Last Thursday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Grugeon

in which he takes the lid off life with RAWICZ and LANDAUER
TERRY BURTON and BETTINE LE BEAU
WOOLF PHILLIPS and his ORCHESTRA
Devised by Al Read
Written by Ronnie Taylor Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast on January 2 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Burton
Unknown:
Bettine Le Beau
Unknown:
Woolf Phillips
Written By:
Ronnie Taylor
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Luck of the Draw by Philip Levene with Jane Wenham and Lewis Stringer
Arthur Green , the only sinwle member of his family, decides that he should marry. He is too shy to find a girl friend himself, so he seeks help.
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on May 13. 1964 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Levene
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Arthur Green
Mrs Green:
Mary O'Farrell
Joe:
Geoffrey Matthews
Arthur Green:
Lewis Stringer
Uncle Fred:
Wilfrid Carter
Gloria:
Jo Manning Wilson
Mrs Deveraux:
Olga Lindo
Jenny Millar:
Jane Wenham
Woman:
Vivienne Chatterton
Traveller:
Bruce Beeby
Woman at station:
Eva Stuart
Barman:
Glyn Dearman

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Guest of the Week from Woman's Hour: RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT talks to PAMELA CREIGHTON
Poodle Clipping: ELSIE Lewis remembers her first attempts
Subsidised Housing: MICHAEL FREEDLAND presents views from tenants, rate payers, and council officials
Different from what I expected: a personal story from a mother

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Elsie Lewis

A special edition of Gala Concert Halt with ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (soprano) MAUREEN GUY (mezzo-soprano) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor)
DENIS DOWLING (baritone)
The GALA CHORUS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
The programme includes music from The Bartered Bride (Smetana), Cosi fan tutte (Mozart), Riaoletto (Verdi). Madam Butterfly (Puccini), and Faust (Gounod).
Elizabeth Vaughan and Maureen Guy broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden: Denis Dow ling by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Soprano:
Elizabeth Vaughan
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Baritone:
Denis Dowling
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Unknown:
Elizabeth Vaughan
Unknown:
Maureen Guy
Unknown:
Denis Dow

by Roland Pertwee
Adapted by Peggy Wells
The play is set in Brighton: period 1880. The action takes place in the house and adjoining shop of Edward Strachan, a chemist.
(Angela Thorne and James Hunter are in "You Never Can Tell" at the Haymarket Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Roland Pertwee
Adapted by:
Peggy Wells
Produced by:
Archie Campbell
Myra Strachan:
Noel Hood
Eva:
Verna Harvey
Albert:
James Hunter
Jessie:
Elizabeth Proud
Edward Strachan:
Rolf Lefebvre
Emily:
Angela Thorne
Dr O'Shea:
Harry Webster
Ernest O'Shea:
Kenneth Fortescue
Pearl Bond:
Patricia Denys

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