6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
There is a green hill far away
7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth this Good Friday introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
There is a green hill far away
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West)
Richard Attenborough plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure
spending part of the holiday in the BBC Sound Archives, considers Easter customs and Easter music.
Birth and death and life again by ELIZABETH GOUDGE , novelist
from The Temple Church, London: conducted by the Reader of the Temple, THE REV W. D. 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); 0 sacred head sore wounded (102)
Organist and choirmaster GEORGE THALBEN-BALL , CBE
JOHN BOULTER with some favourite songs accompanied by WILFRID PARRY Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
4: Prospero's Farewell by H. F. RUBINSTEIN with Robert Lang as William Shakespeare
The action takes place in the Mermaid Tavern in London in the autumn of 1610. Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
A special Good Friday edition presented by Joan Yorke including a look at
Country Cottages - homes or holiday residences? PEGGY ARCHER Amateur Treasure Hunting-fun or disaster? BRYON QUIGLEY 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
Story: The New Road by VERA RUSHBROOKE
Presenter JEAN ROGERS
Scripts and production by JENYTH WORSLEY
A Good Friday meditation in words and music: conducted by FR GERARD MEATH , OP with the BARLOW SINGERS
Director MICHAEL CALLAGHAN
Selected for Friday
The Admirable Bashville or Constancy Unrewarded by BERNARD SHAW with Margaret Wolfit , Lewis Flander and Nigel Anthony
The author relates, in Elizabethan blank verse, the passionate love story of a handsome young prizefighter and a beautiful heiress.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Cue for Treason
Read by GORDON GARDNER 5: Then who is Loyal?
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 8: North of England (ii)
KEITH INGHAM (Lancashire) twine manufacturer
STEPHEN PAYNE (Yorkshire) computer programmer
GRAHAM BLAKEY (Manchester) civil servant
STANLEY TODD (Co Durham) local government officer
Including ' Beat the Brains' Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland 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 Baroness Stocks, Lord Robens Kenneth Allsop
Dickie Henderson
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Liss, Hampshire
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie
From the Northamptonshire woodlands and the Yorkshire Dales, the Welsh border country and Oxfordshire, part of the patchwork of spring in the British countryside with ERIC SIMMS , KENNETH WILLIAMSON , DON MOSEY, PAUL HUMPHREYS and MOLLIE HARRIS.
Introduced by C.GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Repeated: 14 April, 9.5 am)
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Thoughts for Good Friday from the prayers of MICHEL QUOIST Read by PETER MARINKER and PETER FIRTH
Guitar MICHAEL WATSON
The Liberty Man
Read by ELIZABETH MORGAN (5)
The Tale of the Non-Talker Wrftten and told by Alan Melville to MANNING WILSON and BRIAN HEWLETT
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
