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Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty programmes for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language, based on Erich Kaslner 's novel Drei Manner im Srhnee
12: Der Kostümball
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
A booklet and records are available
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
Repeated: Wednesday (Study). No. 13: June 14 (Study), 17 (Home)

Contributors

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

The seventeenth of the main series of eighteen programmes for adult? 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 i Study)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from The National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Grugeon

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Easing the Burden
To many motorists the running of a car is an expensive business, but wisdom can keep costs down
Four experts give their advice:
Petrol Economy: JOE LOWREY
Insurance Wisdom: JOHN GASELEE
Car Preservation: HARRY HEYWOOD
Garage Bills: JOHN OLDAKER together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Lowrey
Unknown:
John Gaselee
Unknown:
John Oldaker
Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

Members of the public and invited personalities put questions to
JIMMY EDWARDS , TED RAY
TOMMY TRINDER , CYRIL FLETCHER
In the chair, McDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest, THORA HIRD from 'an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by Edward Taylor
Broadcast on February 12 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Thora Hird
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

The Maze by M. Charles Cohen with Peter Marinker
Stuart Nichol , Ann Murray
In the Canadian Civil Service the ladder of success cannot start lower than the Dead File Office, Harold Weeks had never believed that ladle est ascensus Avcrni, but one day a telephone rang.
Cast in order of speaking;
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Charles Cohen
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Stuart Nichol
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Unknown:
Harold Weeks
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Mr Rathbone:
Frank Henderson
Mr Timpkins:
Alan Barry
Teena Yates:
Ann Murray
Harold Weeks:
Peter Marinker
Nick:
Patrick Tull
Baron:
Stuart Nichol
Benson:
Nigel Anthony
Miss Pierce:
Margaret Robertson
Mackie:
Brian Hewlett
Dinsdale:
Duncan McIntyre
Renfrew:
Murray Kash
Mr Granby:
Earle Grey
Miller:
Brian Hewlett
Merrill:
Douglas Hankin
Plouffe:
John Justin
Translator:
Betty Huntley-Wright

A Saturday Supplement to "Woman's Hour".
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
A London Village: Gordon Snell talks to people who live and work in Soho.
The Life of a Ghost: Ba Mason reviews a book about Maude ffoulkes, a "ghost writer" of royal biographies, and Arthur Marshall reads excerpts from the ghostly works.
A Walk a Day: Donald Norfolk considers it the key to healthy living.
A Dream Hospital: Sister Mary Perpetua talks to Teresa McGonagle about her plan for the most advanced hospital in Britain, to be built at Cheam in Surrey.
The Cutting Edge is on the Wrong Side: Michael Barsley talks to Anne Suter about the Left Handed Association.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Reporter:
Gordon Snell
Reporter:
Ba Mason
Reader:
Arthur Marshall
Speaker:
Donald Norfolk
Interviewee:
Sister Mary Perpetua
Interviewer:
Teresa McGonagle
Interviewee:
Michael Barsley
Interviewer:
Anne Suter

From the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1:
Cavalcade
See facing page

FIFTEENTH SERIES

The BBC in association with the G.L.C. presents the opening concert from the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON BBC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (90 players) comprising BBC CONCERT BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins Leader. James Hutcheon
THE four concerts in this year's festival present highlights of the most popular light music programmes broadcast during the past year. The first part of tonight's concert is called Cavalcade and contains some scintillating music by Shostakovich. Dorita yPepe will give us some songs of Latin America, and Tommy Reilly will give the first public performance of a Prelude and Dance by Robert Farnon.
Friday Night Is Music Night, the second part of the concert, contains the great mixture of music which has made this programme so popular. Sidney Torch, appearing for the fourteenth time, has made a new arrangement of some old Victorian songs called Victorian Vanities.
BBC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHT MUSIC 1967

Victorian Vanities From left to right: John Lawrenson. Stephanie Voss, Cherry Llnd, and Leslie Fyson Details of all the Festival concerts may be obtained from the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1 at 7.30 IN THE HOME SERVICE Cavalcade Conducted by Marcus Dods 0 Dorita y Pepe Songs of Latin America Tommy Reilly (harmonica) Prelude and Dance..................Robert Farnon Other items include: Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) ...................Bernstein 0 Part 1 will also b< beard by listeners to Belgium and Denmark Executive producer, Charles Beardsall Assistant producer, Elizabeth Johnson Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury Reg Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra will be playing In the foyer before the concert: recording in ' Grand Hotel ' tomorrow
Part 2 at 8.50 IN THE LIGHT PROGRAMME Stars of Friday Night is Music Night Conducted by Sidney Torch Cherry Lind Leslie Fyson Stephanie Voss John Lawrenson The Friday Knights Directed by John McCarthy Band of the Coldstream Guards Conducted by Captain Tmvor L. Sharpe, M.B.E. Director of Music 0 Victorian Vanities arr. Sidney Torch Other items include: 1812 Overture .....................Tchaikovsky (120 players) 0 Part 2 will also be heard by nsteners in Belgium and to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne) and the BBC World Service

The Shaws of Synge Street by John O'Dohovan adapted by the author from his stage play
The action of the play takes place in Dublin during the second half of the nineteenth century
The cast:
Pianist, Cicely Hoye
Produced by JOHN POWELL
Repeated: Mondaw, 3.15 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
John O'Dohovan
Pianist:
Cicely Hoye
Produced By:
John Powell
George Carr Shaw a corn merchant:
Denis McCarthy
Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw, his wife:
Mary Wimbush
Lucy Shaw, their daughter:
Chrys Salt
Walter John Gurly, a ship's doctor:
Joseph O'Conor
George John Vandeleur Lee, a singing teacher:
Henry Stamper
Joseph Robinson, a vicar choral:
Anthony Jackson
Matthew Edward McNulty, a bank clerk:
Nigel Anthony
George Ferdinand Shaw a univer sity professor:
Keith Grenville
Ann Ellen Shaw, his wife:
Patricia Gallimore
Dr Morgan:
Stephen Jack
G B S:
Allan McClelland

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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