by Virgil Fox
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
An easy anthology
Twenty language lessons based on a pamphlet with grammar commentary by Dennis Ward, University of Edinburgh
Script by Peter Norman, University of London
Taking part:
Emmie Vosnesenskaya, Peter Norman with the recorded voices of Lt. Ludmilla Pavichenko and Dynamo centre forward Constantin Beskov
(Recorded broadcast of Oct. 13, 1960)
The pamphlet can be obtained through newsagents, bookshops, or by sending a crossed postal order for 6s. to BBC Publications (Keep Up Your Russian) [address removed]
A Russian Pronunciation Practice record is also available, and can be obtained from BBC Publications at the above address, price 3s. 6d., plus 9d. for inland postage and packing
Work in the world of science
ANIMAL CLOCKS by A. D. Lees , Ph.D. of the A.R.C. Unit of Insect Physiology, Cambridge
Many animals have a well-developed time sense Without it honey bees and migrating birds could not navigate, and greenfly could not tell summer from autumn. This timekeeping is so accurate that the processes concerned are called ' internal clocks.' Recent research has located these clocks, but how they work is not yet known.
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