An edition of the Tyne Tees Television education programme Say it in Russian presented by Ronald Lane and produced in co-operation with Durham University. Filmed at the City Road studios in Newcastle, this edition looks at words and phrases used while travelling or driving and how to hear and understand certain works and phases in normal conversation. The programme uses actors to help recreating certain scenarios. Credit: TTT Presents An image of two Russian dolls. Title: Say it in...

An edition of the Tyne Tees Television education programme Say it in Russian presented by Ronald Lane and produced in co-operation with Durham University. Filmed at the City Road studios in Newcastle, this edition looks at words and phrases used while travelling or driving and how to hear and understand certain works and phases in normal conversation. The programme uses actors to help recreating certain scenarios. Credit: TTT Presents An image of two Russian dolls. Title: Say it in Russian Title: Presented in co-operation with the University of Durham Phantom car ride of a man driving along a road through the Russian countryside and pulling into the driveway of a large house. Title: Lesson 22 A series of cars driving along various Russian roads. In the television studio of Tyne Tees Television sits presenter Ronald Lane in an armchair beside him a desk. He talks to camera about driving in Russian and how this can help to get into conversation with the people there. Credit: Ronald Lane In another part of the studio two actors in a living room set; a woman seated on a sofa and a man standing beside an armchair. The man begins to speak Russian and uses his arms to point at certain areas of the room. He stands on the carpet, he points at the ceiling and then at a door as well as the handle. He points at and sits in the armchair. The woman gets up and sits on armrest beside the man who continues to punctuate in Russian. On a table beside him a record player which he again points out. He puts on some music. The programme returns to Ronald Lane who provides additional information about the words and phrases used by the man. On occasion the scene returns to the man in the living room who repeats several phrases for ‘room’, ‘handle on the door’ and ‘she is sitting on the arm of the chair’. Returning to the man and woman in the living room set, he stands beside the window and points at it speaking in Russian. He looks directly at the camera and repeats the phase before going around the room again repeating the phases and pointing at parts of the room seen in the previous sequence. Returning to Ronald Lane he gets up from his chair and sits behind the desk. On the desk a pad of paper with Russian words on it. He uses a pencil to point out the correct pronunciation of certain words and phrases on each page. A car is parked in the studio, the Russian man seen previously sits at the wheel. A second man wearing a suit comes over and in Russian points out certain parts of the vehicle and engine as well as the man inside. Back in the armchair Ronald Lane speaks to camera talking about the pronunciation for Russian various parts of the car. As before the film cuts back to parts of the car being discussed. Sitting at the desk again Ronald Lane points out the words written on paper. A number of images of the car with various sections being pointed out and the correct Russian word for it printed above. A series of still images begins from sequences seen so far in the programme and the voice of a man speaking in Russian. Still at the desk Ronald Lane speaks to camera changing to more images and Russian phases learned in this programme printed underneath. Back to Ronald Lane speaking and then the front cover of a booklet to accompany a future 3rd series of 12 lessons which is promoted by Ronald Lane. The final part of the programme, a continuation from an earlier edition, Ronald Lane using the pencil to follow the first verse from a song about the Volga Boatmen which is being sung by a choir. The song over, Ronald says good-bye or ‘do svidaniya. End credit: Taking part Ronald Lane, Felix Ourin, Vladimir Bulatov End credit: Written by William Harrison, Stephen Le Fleming of the Department of German and Russian University of Durham End credit: Adviser Irene Calvert of the Department of Education University of Durham End credit: Programme Assistant Christine Hiddleston, Christine Williams End credit: Designer Bryan Holgate End credit: Executive Producer Leslie Barrett End credit: Produced by Lisle Willis End credit: TTT Production