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7.10 South East News
7.15 Today presented by Jack de Manio
What Britain is getting up to this morning - and what's happening abroad
7.50 Ten to Eight
What the Bible Says with Billy McGee
7.55 Weather; programme news
There is a green hill far away
S.IO South East News
8.t5 Today
S.45Yesterday in Parliament
A glimpse into the private world of the man who was King Edward VIII for just ten months in 1936 and of the woman he loved and married in June 1937.
In an informal conversation with Kenneth Harris, recorded at their Paris home, the Duke and Duchess speak of their life together. The Duke talks about the Establishment, his father, golf, blood sports, and his great-niece: the Duchess on children and their parents, careers for women, loneliness, and the Duke's bad habits.
A radio adaptation of the programme televised on BBC1 on 13 January followed by an interlude
Thoughts for Holy Week from
PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
from the Temple Church, London: conducted by The Reader of the Temple, The Rev W.O. Kennedy-Bell
Litany (Tallis, five-part)
Epistle: Hebrews 10, vv 1 25
Gospel: St John 19, vv 2-37
Creed (Darke in F)
Hymns (EH): Drop, drop, slow tears (98); O sacred head sore wounded (102)
Organist and choirmaster, George Thalben-Ball
talks to Sheridan Morley about his life and work.
He recalls how both his uncle, Somerset Maugham, and his father, Lord Maugham, the Lord Chancellor, viewed his career as a writer with hostility.
From BBC2's Line-Up
byHANSAMDERSEN, in four parts 4: The Palace of Snow Rooms
A selection of items from BBC radio and television introduced by Robin Holmes
(Extended version: Sunday, 11.30am)
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headtines introduced by WtLLiAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Woppy's Easter Epss by KATHLEEMWHITE
An anthology for GoodFriday fromSa)isburyCathfdra) Complied and introduced bv the Chancellor,
CANONMOELWtN MERCHANT Organistandchoirmaster RtCHARBSEAL
Thursday's broadcast: R2)
Paul Martin visits the home of the Strauss Waltz - the city whose walls has always contained so much music, not only of Strauss but of Lehar, Schubert. Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
This sound portrait, while reflecting the past, shows something of the present life through the comments of the Viennese.
A family magazine which comes today from Scotland Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART Church of the Future?: This Easter a church in the new town of Livingston witnesses servicesof four denominations. Some of those involved talk about this unique ecumenical experiment
' One of the three great choirs of Europe': thus vnnKarajan describedtheEdinburghFestival Chorus. ROB}N RJCHARbSON talks tO ARTHUR OLDHAM , ChOrUS-master of this choir and of the LSO Chorus
Fifty Years of Dining Out: Head waiter RAYMONC PAGAN! talks to HOWARD LOCKHART
The Making of a Gardener: BEN BARRETT recalls his training
Aseriesofsixprogrammes
1: The Uncrou'ned Queen of France
The story of Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon
Written by CHARLOTTE HALDANE and RUTH JORDAN
NarratedbyMiCHAELMCCLAtN
Other parts HILDAKRtSEMAN andGEOFFREYCOLDNS
ProducedbycRAHAMGAULD
and programme news
Tonights evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Weekend with TOMBOSTOCK-StopPress:introducedby BEREKPARKER
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
(The 5,000th time: page 9)
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Clifford Knowles, conductor Charles Groves
Part 1: Schubert
Overture: Rosamunde
8.13* Symphony No 5, in B flat major
ELLEN HOLMES remembers the young man, a casualty of his time, who shouted at his mother to prove she still had one son living
Part 2: Dvorak
Symphony No 7, in B minor
News from the world of science and technology
Paul Vaughan brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life
Produced by the Science Unit
9.58 Weather
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by News-stand in which cot-m VAf-DAR analyses trends in and out of Fleet Street
Anthology: the words from Visions from Piers Plowman, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, and from the poetry of John Masefield, Edwin Muir, and Marcos Ana, a political prisoner.
No Highway by NEVIL SHUTE read by STEPHEN THORNE (10)
BEALXARTSTRIO
AJcndpl.s.suhH Piano Trio in c minor. Op 66
