reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.55 Weather, programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4s 70-minute worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's on; Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40'
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say: with illustrations read by DAVID WILLMOTT
Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , TOM READ
New Every Morning, p 30; 0 Lamb of God all-holy (BBC Hymn Book 530); Psalm 22; Luke 23, vv 44-56 (NEB); We sing the praise (BBC HB 95)
TOM DRiBERG talks about the passages which have been read during this Holy Week.
(Shortened edition of Friday's broadcast)
3: No Motive adapted for radio by MAURICE TRAVERS with Gordon Jackson as Duncan Black
It was half.past 11 in the morning when Mary went to the gunroom. There, on a notepad she wrote three words. Then she killed herself. Why? Her husband said there was no motive.
Other parts GARETH ARMSTRONG ERIC ALLEN , HUGH ROSS
SION PROBERT , JANE THOMSON Producer DEREK HODDINOTT
(BBC World Service production)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Put your back into it! Working holidays at home and abroad for young people: NANCY wise assesses the possibilities.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
10: Scotland (ii)
(Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Marghanita Laskl Lord Robens
The Dean of Cuildford
Chairman David Jacobs
Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour. Sounds for the future: judi GOODWIN reports on a new sound archive unit for the North West.
Gardening: GEOFF AMOS.
Old Moore's Almanac: DAVID LLOYD looks into its history with musical help from JON RAVEN.
What the European papers say. A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by June Barrie
(First of ten instalments)
Song by children of Pillowell County Primary School
A Child in the Forest, £2.25, from 25 April from bookshops. Easter Holiday People: page 4
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A parable for adults and children translated by Katherine Woods and adapted for radio by Jon Farrell with Nigel Stock as Narrator and Gwyn Guthrie as The Little Prince
' I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago ...
Music specially composed by Wilma Paterson
Introduced by John Dunn Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with GEORGE LAYTON as everyone written by GAIL RENARD Producer SIMON BRETT
4.5 Time Well Spent: things to do, to collect, to make: magic, shoebox scenes, postcards.
Introduced by BRIAN TRUEMAN Producer GILLIAN
4.25 On the Right Track
A competition about railways and railway sounds: devised by REX CHRISTIANSEN.
4.30 A Likely Lad by GILLIAN AVERY read by DAVID MAHLOWE (4)
4.40 Forecast: the radio game devised by IAN MESSITER Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Richard Wattis with some Guides and Scouts Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist and Kon Tiki expedition leader, with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
By John Kerr
Rita Tushingham as Bernadette: 'How can I follow my vocation when it is continually being interrupted? For eight years I have been prodded and stared at like an animal.'
And Colette O'Neil as Mother Marie-Therese Vauzou: 'You understand that as Mistress of Novices I am your immediate superior? ...You will tell me all I ask you. You will trust me as your own mother... You will be entirely open. No secrets. No private desires. Nothing.'
(Valerie Verdon is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
(Tush! Tush!: page 5)
9.58 Weather
Sir Jack Longland
Very Rev Edward Patey
Professor Graeme Moodie in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Family Prayers conducted by REV DOUGLAS AITKEN
preceded by Weather
