6.30 Shorthand
Dictation Practice at the higher speeds: 90-120 words a minute
Compiled by MARY DE LA Mahotiere
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system
Lower speeds: Tuesdays, 6.30
6.40 Use Your Russian
Twelve lessons based on a letter from VERA Lebedeva
Recorded by courtesy of Moscow Radio
Lesson 2
Third broadcast
7.0 Political Ideas
A series of nine programmes about some of the thinkers who helped to shape the political theory and practice of their own and subsequent times, and whose ideas are still alive today
1: Machiavelli and the Self-Sufficient State by JOHN HALE
Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford The readings, from The Prince and other works by Niccold Machiavelli , are by DENIS MCCARTHY
Produced by Gilbert Phelps

Introduced by Roy HAY
Worth Trying: CHRISTOPHER LLOYD suggests some unusual bedding plants for putting out in May
Sax Appeal: NOEL Prockter talks about the advantages of saxifrages and their relations