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'Toutes Directions'
A series of twenty programmes intended for listeners who already have some knowledge of French.
17: Vézclayfestival Son et Lumière
Introduced byKATiAEi.ns with the help of Emile Harven
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Emile Harven

Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty programmes for listeners with a basic knowledge 'of the language, based on Erich Kastner 's novel Drei Manner im Schnee
7: Neue Bekanntschaften
Introduced by SABINE Michael and Dieter Geissler
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A handbook and records are available

Contributors

Unknown:
Erich Kastner
Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler

The twelfth of the main series of eighteen 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

Car Hire: ERIC Tobitt has been investigating the advantages and difficulties of car hire in Britain
The Misrepresentation Act: RUPERT TOWNSHEND - ROSE, a barrister, explains how this new Act affects the purchase of motor cars together with Topical news and the latest Read Conditions
Introduced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
Unknown:
Rupert Townshend
Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge

Members of the public and invited personalities put questions to
Jimmy EDWARDS , TED RAY
TOMMY TRADER, Cyril FLETCHER
In the chair, McDonald HOBLEY
Guest, DICK BENTLEY from an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by Edward Taylor
Broadcast on January 1 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Dick Bentley
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Spring Fever
A comedy by P. J. Donaldson with Clifford Rose and Carole Mowlem
' You know when you feel a tintOe up and down your spine? That's electricity It varies with the kind and the strength of the emotion.' ' And this electronics machine measures these emotions, Professor? '
Produced by Guy VAESEN
Clifford Rose is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Comedy By:
P. J. Donaldson
Unknown:
Clifford Rose
Unknown:
Carole Mowlem
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Produced By:
Clifford Rose
Sonia:
Carol Marsh
Professor Roger Turner:
Clifford Rose
Janet Cooper:
Carole Mowlem
Dr George Buckley:
Antony Viccars
Brian White:
Nigel Anthony
Edward Rivers:
Wilfred Babbage

WYN MORRIS conducts the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader. Colin Staveley in a programme of music for all the family with IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
Introduced by IWAN THOMAS
Produced by Moelfryn Harries and Gareth Walters
The programme includes music by Rossini. Quilter, and Josef Strauss. and the scherzo from Moszkowskl's s Piano Concerto.

Contributors

Leader:
Colin Staveley
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Introduced By:
Iwan Thomas
Produced By:
Moelfryn Harries
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Produced By:
Josef Strauss.

by John Patrick, adapted for radio by Duncan McIntyre
with Duncan McIntyre and Isabel Dean

The action of the play is set in a convalescent ward in a temporary British General Hospital somewhere to the rear of the Assam-Burma front during the Second World War.

Contributors

Author:
John Patrick
Adapted by:
Duncan McIntyre
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Orderly:
Ronald Herdman
Yank:
Warren Stanhope
Digger:
Trader Faulkner
Kiwi:
Rolf Lefebvre
Blossom:
Michael McClain
Tommy:
Alan Dudley
Margaret:
Isabel Dean
Colonel:
Basil Jones
Lachlan:
Duncan McIntyre

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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