including a film report of the inauguration of the Sir Mohammad Iqbal Memorial Library, at St Michael's Hall in Coventry Cathedral.
Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham)
French with Max Bellancourt
A series of 30 programmes
(Repeated next Saturday at 10.0 am)
(Books 27 1/2p each, records 99p each: p 66)
Passages from Clive Sansom's poem on the life of Jesus
Spoken in an English setting by Ann Morrish, Gwen Cherrell, Brian Blessed, Richard Bebb and Trevor Baxter
From Highbrook Parish Church, Sussex
Pope Paul VI gives his Easter Blessing to the City and the World
Fr Patrick McEnroe describes the scene in the Square before St Peter's in Rome
Presented by the Italian Television Service
A series of ten programmes
Introduced by Ian Simpson
(Book 80p: see page 66)
(Colour)
Last summer David Richardson spent a day at Holland's new farm on the edge of the Zuider Zee.
BBC Scotland
Weather for Farmers
Standing back from the wilder excesses of fashion, a leading London designer and a hat factory in Luton find a world market for their well-made, restrained styles.
A series of five programmes looking at wild creatures in their natural surroundings
A new kind of quiz in which professional and amateur experts face a series of wildlife questions. This week with Johnny Morris, Sara Leighton, David Bellamy, Michael Boorer, Michael Flanders, Cathy Kilpatrick
Chairman Professor John Napier
(from Bristol)
Starring Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Reluctantly, Wyatt Earp is persuaded by the Mayor and cattle-baron McCoy to take the job of Marshal in the lawless frontier town of Wichita.
This Week's Films: page 9
David Vine introduces two of this afternoon's major and traditional events.
BBC Outside Broadcast cameras bring you:
4.5 The Easter Parade from Battersea Park
In her Easter Bonnet, With all the frills upon it - Who'll be the grandest lady In the Easter Parade?
Join the crowds in London's jolliest park to see the parade of bands, carnival floats, celebrities and - hats.
4.30* The Easter International Meeting at the All England Jumping Course
Hickstead, Sussex
featuring the major class of the day:
The Wills Hickstead Tankard
In the formidable International arena within Hickstead's delightful setting many of Britain's leading riders are competing in this the first major outdoor show of the season.
A serial in five parts based on the novel by Neil Munro
dramatised for television by Clifford Hanley
with
Tom Watson as Ninian Campbell
David Ashton as Aeneas Macmaster
and Michael Gwynn as Duncan Forbes
After a dangerous journey Aeneas and Ninian reach Inverness and meet the sinister Lord Lovat, suspected of being a secret revolutionary. They leave his castle knowing they are hunted men.
(BBC Scotland)
(Colour)
from St George's Tron Parish Church, Glasgow
with Clifford Hughes (tenor) and 'Harmony'
Introduced by Ian Valentine
Christ the Lord is risen today (St George's, Windsor)
Who is he? (Lowliness)
Christ the Lord has risen (John Turner)
The strife is o'er, the battle done (Victory)
The man of Galilee (arr Frank Anderson)
This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Thine be the glory (Judas Maccabaeus)
He looked beyond my faults (Londonderry Air)
And can it be (Sagina)
What a friend we have in Jesus (Welsh Air)
The Saviour dy'd, but rose again (St Andrew)
(BBC Scotland)
(Colour)
by Brian Finch
The first of a new series starring Nigel Stock
with Brenda Bruce
It can be very difficult when you're settling down to a new way of life, especially when you were happy with the old. But there's always someone around to help... or hinder...
(from Birmingham)
("People have to believe in you...": pages 6 and 7)
(Colour)
with Robert Dougall; Weather
[Starring] Michael Caine
Tonight's film also stars Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron and Shelley Winters
As he moves from one easy conquest to the next Alfie never stops to count the cost - to others or to himself.
This Week's Films: page 9.
Alfie's redhaired bird: page 3
This film tells the simple, compassionate story of the relationship between a blind boy, his twin brother and their parents.
"A thoughtful, modest and helpful documentary..." (The New York Times)
