Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Paul Barnes introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family with EII.EEN FOWLER, or VHF Regional news and weather: 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with IAN WALLER
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by SHEILA TRACY Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and TERRY LLOYD
New Every Morning, page 30; Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (BBC Hymn Book 90); Psalm 31; Luke 23. vv 44-56 (rsv); What sorrow sore (BBC HB 96)
New Every Morning, fl.25 (hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
The last of six talks by PROFESSOR C. F. D. MOULE about the meaning of Holy Week. 6: Holy Saturday
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Presented by Anthony Smith A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings. as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Sir Richard Marsh
Katharine Whitehorn Beryl Reid
Bishop of Basingstoke
Chairman David Jacobs from Berkshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Andy Price celebrates Easter; looks at belief and superstition; and at the necessity for altruism.
And VERNON JOYNER reads The Anarchist by EDEN PHILPOTTS , abridged by JANET QUIGLEY Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The Dark Cornelian by DAVID H. GODFREY with ' That stone' Isn't it beautiful? It's quite different from all the others, sitting there in its own little ring of water. Gosh, it's quite heavy, and those colours make it look as if it's on fire. All red and purple and gold. It's beautiful' '
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense, with observers of. and contributors to. the current social, artistic and political scene.
Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Christiaan Barnard, the heart surgeon, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Frenchman's Creek by DAPHNE DU MAURIER adapted by BRIAN GEAR
' The one thing I value above all others. Freedom. I feel like one of those birds one sees in beautiful cages. They have food, water - but no one understands they've lost the one thing they need most - freedom.'
Music researched and arranged by SIDNEY SAGER
Produced and directed by MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Francis Watson E. J. Mi sham and John Maddox in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
A sequence of music and readings, concerning the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection.
Devised by GEOFFREY TIMS
With the CUMBERLAND CONSORT Readers HAZEL ANDREA and STEPHEN THORNE
preceded by Weather
