REV JOHN JACKSON
The world on Easter Monday morning: introduced by Michael Aspel
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's , Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50
by VIRGINIA WOOLF: abridged in ten parts by BECKY COCKING
Read by Betty Huntley-Wright Flush was a spaniel puppy. Elizabeth Barrett was his mistress. When Browning called, Flush was well placed to observe the growing romance. Producer JOHN CARDY
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green , Barry Norman , Lance Percival , Esther Rant zen, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other regulars. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
1 I've kept garden snails in my cell all winter,' writes a Dart-moor prisoner, ' but they didn'hibernate - in fact, I've now got a dozen young ones.' Comments on this and other queries by the Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
nem, p 34; Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101); Psalm 57; Luke 24, vv 1-11 (NEB); Good Christian men, rejoice and sing! (BBC HB 103)
Pussy's in the Well by FRANK HEADLAND
Read by Robert Rietty
Ovideo, the cat with the absurdly long nose, was putting on weight ...
The art of comedy writing on radio and television celebrates a quarter of a century of collaboration by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and featuring excerpts of the performance of their craft by TONY HANCOCK , HARRY H. CORBETT , WILFRID BRAMBELL, FRANKIE HOW-ERD and others. Producer ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
11.50 Stereo Rubinstein plays Chopin: gramophone record
A special country-fresh edition presented by Jeanine McMullen Where have all the duck eggs gone?: a look at the shrinking world of ducks
The Ancient Art of Hurdle-making: BILL THOMSON describes his craft.
A backyard pig: a new way to economise?
An adoption society for foals?: MARK HARTLEY-BREWER Visits the National Foal Bank.
Roy Plomley's castaway is anthropologist Dr Thor Heyerdahl. Show more
Thor Heyerdahl
12.55 (medium wave only) Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Michael Cooke
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two on Theme Music: STEVE RACE discusses and illustrates the composer's approach with BERT CHAPPELL and ALEXANDER FARIS , composer of the new Woman's Hour signature tune.
2.0-2.2 News
Money Savers-1: HONOR WYATT makes Savoury Sicilian Oranges. Children's Books and Writers: ELISABETH BERESFORD and ELAINE moss on the recent book fair in Bologna.
Zoroastrianism: JOHN ARDAGH visits a thriving stronghold of this ancient religion in Iran. The Easter Egg Party by ELIZABETH BOWEN abridged by ANN REES JONES Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Big Fat Rosie's Wash. day Adventure by MARY CALVERT
Blithe Spirit: an improbable farce by Noel Coward, adapted for radio by Norman Wright
with Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison
The play hilariously exploits the Eternal Triangle in a double sense - Charles Condomine lives in wedded bliss with his wife. Ruth, until his former wife, Elvira, returns to haunt them!
Watership Down by RICHARD ADAMS
Read by JOHN ROWE
Bigwig was close to utter nervous exhaustion. How much had Woundwort discovered? 11: The Thunder Breaks
The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team
5.55 Weather, programme news
based on the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Capt Mainwaring and Sgt Wilson fall upon an explosive situation when the bank is broken into.
Featuring John Laurie, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee, John Barron, Frank Thornton with Elizabeth Morgan, John Snagge
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
Dad's Army is back on BBC1: Thursday at 8.0 pm
(Repeated: Tuesday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Johnny Morris goes island-hopping, out of season, in the Mediterranean. 5: Yugoslavia
Chains by ELIZABETH BAKER adapted for radio and produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Elizabeth Baker is the first woman dramatist to appear in this series. Her play, originally performed at London's Court Theatre in 1909, tells in words and music of Charley Wilson 's yearning for a better life in Australia-and of the chains of love and poverty which prevent him.
Pianist WINIFRED DAVEY
(Rptd: next Sunday afternoon)
A nightly review of the arts and science. Introduced tonight by Nigel Rees
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
John Tusa reporting
Harris in Wonderland by PHILIP REID
Read by BRIAN MATTHEW (5)
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE adapted for radio by MICHAEL HARDWICK with Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson A crown jewel is missing and Holmes knows who has it - but must he risk being murdered to make the thief give it up?
Violinist SYDNEY HUMPHREYS
Producer ROBIN MIDGLEY (1962)
preceded by Weather
