REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
reads Rose: My Life in Service by ROSINA HARRISON , adapted in five parts by MADGE HART (1)
The real-life ' Upstairs, Downstairs ' story of a plain-spoken Yorkshire girl who was to spend 35 colourful years with the extraordinary Nancy, Lady Astor. Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes
Bernard Falk , Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Digging the garden the other day, I came across a Y-shaped earthworm. It seemed healthy enough - but why did it have two rear endst
The team gives its undivided attention to a selection of your questions. Introduced by DEREK JONES. Producer JOHN HARRISON. Series producer DILYS BREESE. BBC Bristol
NEM, p 34; Christ the Lord is risen <BBC HB 100); Canticle 8; John 20, vv 1-9; Good Christian men (BBC HB 103)
with David Jacobs who, in this Jubilee Year, leads our Easter Parade of some of the best of comedy" music and light-hearted banter broadcastover the past 25 years. Amongst those joining us will be Tony Hancock , The Goons, The Glums, Elsie and Doris Waters , Victor Borge , Gilbert Harding , Kenneth Williams , The Navy Lark, Flanders and Swann, and others. Compiled and produced by JOHN DYAS
Country Style
JEANINE MCMULLEN leaves her farm to discover doings, dismays and delights, countrywide. Producer DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Rod Hull. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
(Good Friday's broadcast)
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
Who Said That?: IRENE THOMAS puts the questions: moira SHEARER and LUDOVIC KENNEDY supply the answers.
2.0-2.2 News
Tip-Top to Tip-Toe: shape up for spring with the help of ESTHER FAIRFAX and a kitchen chair.
Ladies in retirement - 4: BAR
BARA STONEHOUSE.
' We call it our paradise ': ANNE CATCHPOLE visits the world-famous tapestry workshops at Harrania near Cairo.
Master Your Memory: TONY BUZAN shows you how - 4: note-taking and speeches.
Let Dogs Delight by GEORGE EWART EVANS. abridged by MADGE HART , read by ALARIC COTTER
John's Day Out by JOAN WYATT
The Baghdad Baggage by WILLIAM FOX with The Middle East 1943 BRADY: Bullion?
Pym: Gold Bullion. The BGS would like your ideas on its transfer to the Imperial Bank of Persia in Teheran. It'll be up to you to handpick an officer as escort.
BRADY: A horrid job for some poor unsuspecting devil!
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
The Frightening Talept by LOUIS GOLDING
Abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Noel Johnson (1)
'... you shall see too, that this was no beneficent Talent ... there was something grim and menacing about it. That sudden darkness, as I became engaged in my involuntary predictions ... was frightening! ' Producer MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
Presented by Robert Williams
5.50 VHF
Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly discussion programme. Today's guests are Germaine Greer , Lydia Howard and Marjorie Proops.
Presiding Irene Thomas Theme: Intolerance
Producer MADEAU STEWART
.(Next week's theme: E.S.PJ
[(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
The second of four record programmes in which Derek Parker takes an affectionate look back at English musical comedy between 1916 and 1939.
Evening Light by ALEKSEI ARBUZOV translated by ARIADNE NICOLAEFF with Tony Britton as Lavrenty
Russia, 1975: a small town on the Volga. In a newspaper office, the District Council's decision to allow the Co-operative to clear trees and shrubs for private garages meets with mixed reactions. Arbuzov portrays his characters with warmth and subtlety.
Adapted for radio, produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
BBCManchester. (Rptd: Sun2..30)
In a Bank Holiday programme devoted to India, Michael Oliver considers a book on its music, the memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur and an exhibition at Knebworth that re-creates the Delhi Durbar.
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group (6)
A confection of recorded humour on the eternal encounter and its consequences, from Noel Coward , Peter Cook and Dudley Moore , Woody Allen , Michael Flanders and Donald Swann , Joyce Grenfell , Tom Lehrer , Roy Hudd , John Cleese , Stanley Holloway and many Others. Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
