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 introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West)
8.40 Today's Papers
I can'get on with my mother-in law. She has always made it plain she dislikes me and only worries about her son. Now she even criticises my little boy. I've tried so hard to make friends - what can I dor
Listeners discuss family problems With DR WENDY GREEN-GROSS, marriage guidance consultant, and DR JAMES HEMMING , educational psychologist. Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer THENA HESHEL
Re/lections of the Last Supper: by JOHN EBDON , Director of the London Planetarium
NEM p 26: My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84); Psalm 31; Mark 15, vv 21-39 (AV); When I survey (BBC HB 97)
Boyce Symphony No 1, in BOat ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by EMANUEL HURWITZ
10.39* Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2
PIERRE PIERLOT; ANTIQUA MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JACQUES ROUSSEL gramophone records
at the Service in York Minster
The distribution of Alms on Holy Thursday is of great antiquity. The Maundy can be traced back in England to the reign of Edward I.
The service derives its name from the Latin Mandatum. a commandment, and its opening words have always been: ' A new commandment I give unto you.'
Order of Service:
Hymn: Praise, my soul Psalm 138
Anthem: Lord. for thy tender mercies' sake (Hilton)
First Lesson: St John 13. vv 1-16: read by THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE CITY OF YORK First Distribution
During this the following anthems are sung:
Cast me not away from thy presence (S. S. Wesley): Hide not thou thy face from us (Far-rant); 0 Lord look down from Heaven (Battishill)
Second Lesson: St Matthew 25, vv 31-45: read by THE HIGH STEWARD OF YORK MINSTER Second Distribution
During this the following anthems are sung:
I sat down under his shadow (Bairstow); 0 Sacrum convivium (Messiaen); Zadok the Priest (Handel) Prayers
Hymn: Fill thou my life The National Anthem
The scene described by AUDREY RUSSELL
Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Health and Welfare
Treble Chance: LUCILLE HALL meets the parents of triplets and finds out how they cope.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden in the chair STEVE RACE
Recorded before an invited audience at the Commonwealth Institute, London
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: A Pin for a Peepshow by R. E. GODSLAND
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND includes music by Lehar, Nicolai and Tomlinson KATHLEEN JONES (piano) plays Granados, Villa-Lobos and Chopin's Scherzo in B minor
Steph and the Simple Life by ANDREW DAVIES
' There's nothing more natural than standing stark naked outside the front door having a shave in a howling gale.
With SIMON CORNISH
WILLIAM DAVIES , ANNA DAVIES
ELIZABETH MOORE , ANTHONY MOORE and CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
But precisely whatt
A sort of magazine which combines the odd, the occult, the obscure, the off-beat, and the orotund with the downright outrageous.
Producer MICHELL RAPER
Cue for Treason
Read by GORDON GARDNER 4: Held for Questioning
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions/ Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.0 pm)
I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself
In the summer of 1741. in a frenzy of inspiration, Handel wrote Messiah. He completed it in three weeks.
STANLEY SADIE has compiled from contemporary sources an account of the events leading up to the first performance of Messiah 230 years ago in Dublin. with Gerard Heinz as Handel Clifford Norgate as Narrator
Most of the musical extracts are from the recording by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and CHORUS, conducted by COLIN DAVIS , With HEATHER HARPER , HELEN WATTS , JOHN WAKEFIELD and JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
('Messiah' from Ely Cathedral: BBC2, Good Friday, 6.15 pm)
A special edition direct from New York
Why do they turn everything into a musical on Broadway? How do their museums compare with ours? Why are New Yorkers hooked on British TV? Do we get a true picture of Americans from their films?
Gillian Reynolds explores the scene and looks for the answers.
What's happening in science and technology?
PAUL VAUGHAN rounds up the important, the interesting and the off-beat in a weekly look into the world of the future. Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
The Liberty Man
Read by ELIZABETH MORGAN (4)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
