Good Friday holiday sport
Introduced by Frank Bough

11.5* International Show Jumping from Hickstead: The Wills Parcours de Chasse
Leading riders contest this international speed class in this morning's big competition.

12.40* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces action, personalities and the latest news on the first day of the holiday fixtures which will decide promotion and relegation issues.

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A Good Friday devotion from Salisbury Cathedral, including narrative, music and pictures about the events leading up to the Crucifixion.
This interdenominational service is introduced by the new Bishop of Salisbury, The Rt Rev G.E. Reindorp. Prayers are led by the Methodist Minister, The Rev Leslie Scrase.

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Introduced by Frank Bough who brings you the second half of your holiday sport

3.5*; 4.30* International Show Jumping: The BBC TV Grandstand Trophy
from the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead
Outside Broadcast cameras cover the day's major event in which leading international riders compete for a first prize of £250 and the Grandstand Trophy.

3.45* Rugby League: Widnes v Warrington
from Widnes
The second half of today's big Derby match which has a vital bearing on the Championship.

4.45* Final Score
including classified football results, rugby result and news of today's leading events.

Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.

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Introduced by Michael Aspel
with Don Maclean, Peter Glaze, Jacqueline Clarke
and special guests The Handley Family

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with Robert Dougall; Weather

In this competitive spectacle, staged at the Empire Pool, Wembley, star men and women gymnasts from ten European countries are required to perform the full programme of Olympic exercises: the men's programme consists of six separate exercises or disciplines, with four for the women.
featuring
From Russia: winners of the Combined Women's Team gold medal in Munich and silver medallists behind Japan in the men's event Elvira Saady (Seventh overall, Munich 1972) and Nikolai Andrianov (Fourth overall, Munich 1972 - highest placed European male)
with the delightful Ans van Gerwen of Holland (winner 1971), Peter Rohner of Switzerland
and Great Britain's representatives: Avril Lennox - Leicester and Mike Booth - Huddersfield

(Organised by the BAGA in association with The Sunday Times)
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Starring Jennifer Jones
with Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper

At the age of 14 Marie Bernarde Soubirous, the eldest of nine children of a poor French peasant family, experienced a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin in a grotto near her home in Lourdes - later to become a meeting point for pilgrims from the four corners of the earth.
This is the Hollywood version of Bernadette's story which earned Jennifer Jones an Oscar and scored a major success at the box-office.

by Carey Harrison
with Christopher Cazenove, Penelope Lee, Wendy Allnutt, Virginia Balfour, Shirley Dixon, Frederick Treves, Madhav Sharma, Sheila Keith

'Now, you want a donkey... what d'you say... is a milk-white ass of the very purest breed a fair exchange for a bundle of old women?'

(Madhav Sharma is appearing in "Two Gentlemen of Verona" at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
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with Robert Dougall; Weather

Michael Flanders introduces Rita Hunter, Merle Park, David Wall, Julian Bream, Kyung-Wha Chung, Derek Rencher
Orpheus Singers
Director Bowles Bevan
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
leader Charles Taylor
conducted by Robin Stapleton
and New Philharmonia Orchestra
leader Desmond Bradley
conducted by Edward Downes
and Anthony Twiner

Rita Hunter sings the Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana and arias from Aida; Merle Park and David Wall dance a new Ashton ballet; Julian Bream plays the lute and Kyung-Wha Chung plays the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

(Rita Hunter appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera; Merle Park, David Wall and Robin Stapleton appear by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
(Kyung-Wha Chung is in Record Review Sat, 14 April Radio 3. 9.5 am; Kyung-Wha and Myung-Wha play Brahms's Double Concerto tomorrow on Radio 3 Chungs in Harmony: pages 6-7)
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On 13 April 1964 there began one of the longest libel actions in English legal history. Twenty years after his release from Auschwitz, an ex-prisoner, Wladislaw Dering - a doctor in London - entered the Royal Courts of Justice to prove that he had not carried out terrible medical experiments on his fellow prisoners on behalf of the SS.

Part 1: Auschwitz The reality.
Concentration camp ex-prisoners: Professor Bruno Bettelheim, Jozef Carlinski,
Mrs Maurice Stone

Part 2: England
The trial: a reconstruction.

"A harrowing but superbly handled account of the Auschwitz libel suit of 1964 and the horrors which had to be re-lived in the calm of an English courtroom" (Sunday Telegraph)
"By far the most contemporaneously relevant programme to the killing of the Son of God... a full and compassionate documentary" (Sunday Times)

(except London): Closedown