6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning
Douglas Cameron traffic-spotting from the Today helicopter over London, and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
(Radio Times People: page 4)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today, with live helicopter traffic reports
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West)
8.40 Today's Papers
An Act of Worship Folk in Worship
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Devised to help listeners recognise the songs and other sound signals of the birds about them. Presented by TERRY GOMPERTZ Producer MADEAU STEWART
9.35 Hello Again! 9: The Boy on the Dolphin, by MARGERY MORRIS
9.45 Music Workshop 1
The Bluebird Line by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH
NEM p 83: Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 33. vv 1-12; Mark 12. vv 12-27 (AV); City of God (BBC HB 173)
10.30 Voix de France
19: La littérature, reflet des temps modernes: by ODETTE LHENRY (Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
9: Noah and the Flood (ii)
11.0 Quest. What's news?
Introduced by RONALD ALLISON
11.20 Listening and Writing A Breath of Fresh Air by F. C. BALL : part 2
11.40 Prospect. Ourselves: the sociologist and work
Compiled by KEITH YEOMANS Producer TOM BUTCHER
Presenter John Edmunds
Your Own Time, ZENA SKINNER and DEREK COOPER with ideas on what to buy and eat at Easter. And other topical items too
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Once Upon a Time by JO DONOVAN
Presenter ELIZABETH CASSIE Scripts by LESLIE PITT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
2.0 Let's Join In
The Hundred Cherries, retold by BARBARA SLEIGH
2.20 Christian Focus. ' The buck stops here ' by PADDY FEENY Producer GEOFFREY CURTIS
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School
Presented by MICHAEL JESSETT (29)
Selected for Friday
Death Takes a Lifetime by PETER RUSSELL with John Ronane , Julian Glover Lockwood West
Who has murdered Eve Prescott? Her husband, her lover, or a stranger - Inspector Fisher sets out to investigate. His findings are, to say the least, intriguing.
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
by Katherine Sim
'He dedicated his life to a seemingly impossible task - the search for one of the lost Seven Wonders of the World.'
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team including
STEVE RACE'S Radio Times
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 6: Midlands (ii)
KATHLEEN KELLY (Suffolk) - schoolteacher
ANTHONY MARKSON (Nottingham) knitwear manufacturer
JOHN wHiTMARSH (Herefordshire) retired microbiologist
DAVID ELIAS (Nottingham) lecturer
Including ' Beat the Brains ' Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
John Simpson presenting world news and views
NANCY WISE'S selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Bamber Gascoigne Dr David Owen , mp Dr Rhodes Bovson Lynda Chalker
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Burford, Oxfordshire
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
The Economic Outlook
Next Tuesday is Budget Day. How far will the Chancellor's calculations have been thrown out by the miners' strike? What effect will our impending entry into Europe have on his proposals? Do our economic prospects give cause for satisfaction or concern?
IAN MCINTYRE (above) chairs a discussion in which the speakers include:
SIR AI.EC CAIRNCROSS, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and formerly Head of Government Economic Service
LORD KEARTON. Chairman of Courtaulds Ltd.
HUGH SCANLON, President. Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers .
Producer GEORGE FISCHER
(Analysis begins a new series in May with two reports on Japan)
Douglas Stuart reporting
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
Dead Cert by DICK FRANCIS
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (5)
The Musician's Tale
Written by BENNY GREEN and told by Kenneth Nelson to MAÑNING WILSON and GEOFFREY BEEVERS Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm) (Kenneth Nelson is in ' Show Boat ' at the Adelphi, London)
preceded by Weather
