Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading. Easter poems read by JILL BALCON
7.55 Weather, programme news
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by CLIVE JACOBS Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
9.10 Sunday Papers
BBC Birmingham
Holy Communion (Series II) from Salisbury Cathedral, sung to Mozart's Mass in F major
Introit: Christ the Lord is risen (Oxford Book of Carols 148)
Hymns: The strife is o'er (A and M Rev 135); Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (A and M Rev 400); Now the green blade riseth (Oxford Book of Carols 149); Jesus Christ is risen today (A and m Rev 134)
Anthem: Surgens Jesus (Peter Phillips )
Epistle: Colossians 3, vv 1-7 Gospel: St John 20, vv 1-10
Celebrant: VERY REV FENTON MORLEY , Dean of Salisbury
Preacher: RIGHT REV GEORGE REINDORP , Bishop of Salisbury
Organist and Master of the choir RICHARD SEAL Assistant organist
JONATHAN REES-WILLIAMS BBC Bristol
DANDY NICHOLS appeals on behalf of the Nurses Fund for Nurses, which gives small annuities and emergency grants to help poor, elderly or disabled nurses.
Donations to: Dandy Nichols. [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestrldge Easter on the Roads
JOHN TOOGOOD talks about the traffic, ERIC TOBITT looks at Easter Monday. DEE ANNAN looks at her fellow travellers. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues presented from Glasgow by George Scott Producer GEORGE SINCLAIR BBC Scotland
Ring [number removed]
Presenter Derek Cooper
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time. BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
by August Strinberg, translated from the Swedish by Peter Watts
With Peter Craze, Maureen O'Brien and Maurice Denham
A small Swedish town in the year 1900.
'Most of it will come right once Good Friday's over - but not all. Today the birch, tomorrow the Easter eggs. Today snow, tomorrow thaw. Today death, tomorrow resurrection.'
A reminiscence of English canals: song, music and sound with the voices of the boat people, past and present.
The programme is a specially shortened version of the BBC Lp record ' Narrow Boats recently re-issued and now available on the ARGO label.
Most of the songs were sung by DAVID BLAGROVE
Realised at the Radiophonic Workshop from BBC Sound Archives and other programme recordings by DICK MILLS, RICHARD YEOMAN-CLARK and ROGER,
FENBY
Compiled and produced by DESMOND BRISCOE
The call of the fox when heard in full darkness in the wild can be very stirring - but what is it saying and to whom? Today we eavesdrop on the fox and try to discover the significance of his calls.
Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol '
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
Prisoners help the blind: JANE FINNIS reports 'on the braille unit at Aylesbury Prison. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESIIEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Melrose In Roxburgh Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news
A studio counselling session introduced by Jean Metcalfe
The doctors put him on a breathing machine. After a few days they asked if they could switch it off and I said yes. So I killed him, didn't It How do I exist with this'
A mother talks about her feelings of guilt and bereavement with Dr Una Kroll. Dr William Kyle and Dr Anthony Hopkins Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
London v Northern Ireland (Round 1) London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who associate the venue of one of Humphrey Bogart 's adventures with a seat of power burnt by the British in 1814, and a neo-comstockian campaigner.
Northern Ireland:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Michael Dewar John D. Stewart who are quickly on the scent of Arthur's, which caught the attention of the soldiery, Oliver's which was large, and Savinien's which was dramatically long.
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Wed 11.5 am)
for The Mystery of Easter Tom Fleming introduces words and music for Easter Sunday evening with Delia Paton. Peter Firth
ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER
SINGERS
Conductor RICHARD HICKOX Producer ANGELA TILBY
MARION STUDHOLME (Soprano) THOMAS EDMONDS (tenor) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Out-of-doors is the theme of this operatic Music to Remember. Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN
by HUGH WALPOLE. adapted in five parts by ANTONY KEAREY with Clive Swift. Amanda Murray
Nigel Davenport. Nigel Lambert and Elspeth Charlton
Polchester's pageant has begun at last and promises to be a remarkable success, but the town becomes aware that the hated money-lender Stephen Furze has disappeared. and the rumour is that he has been murdered.
4: Rumour. Produced and directed by MARGARET ETALL
(For cast see Tuesday 3.5 pm)
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
FRANK MELLOR treads the daffodil paths of William Words-worth in the Lake District and DAVID JONES follows the horse-drawn plough in West Wales.
As lambing comes to Northumberland, ARTHUR APPLETON talks to the Shepherd of the Year and ERIC SIMMS watches (and records) the birds on a Suffolk farm.
Springtime in the Herefordshire countryside is surveyed by HARRY SOAN and the problems of seasonal flooding on the Derwent Ings of East Yorkshire are Investigated by MICHAEL STEVENSON. Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS
Words and music on an Easter theme. Music BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather
