Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day HILDA FLINT
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*
English Regions: see column 5
reads My Life in Service by ROSINA HARRISON (3)
(Easter Day's broadcast)
2: Gilbert Harding
I think I am short-tempered.
'•I'vealwaysbeenshorttempered, impatient and bad-mannered (GILBERT HARDING)
Every generation produces its cult figures. Fol a time they capture huge followings and receive much adulation. In a new series of seven programmes Tony Bilbow looks back on the careers of seven people who were popular heroes and tries to discover the secret of their success.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Presented by SUSAN DENNY Producer STUART SIMON
NEM, p 42; This joyful Eastertide (BBC HB115); Psalm 98; John 20, vv 19-29; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (BBC HB 116)
The Wednesday Special
A series of stories by well-known authors
Louise by w. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Read by Robert Harris
' She disliked me and I knew that behind my back, in that gentle way of hers, she seldom lost the opportunity of saying a disagreeable thing about me . . . She was a mistress of cold praise.'
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author, starring:. Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife
With PETER CRAZE, ANTHONY SMEE Chapter 6: The Promotion Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE
A Walk up the Sugar Loaf (.Saturday's broadcast)
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
12.55
Weather; programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlakc
Introduced by June Knox-Mawrr Guest of the Week: Elaine Morgan, television script writer and author of The Descent of Woman
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
A Musical Holiday?: NATALIE wnEEN reports on Tuscany, where the Concert Hall is the Piazza, The Opera House the Olive Grove and the emphasis is on enjoyment.
To travel hopefully ... ?: no mean feat with a poodle and a goldfish, as SHEILA HODGSON found out.
Tip-Top to Tip-Toe: shape up for spring with the help of ESTHER FAIRFAX and a kitchen chair.
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (2)
Story: The Bird who Sang too Soon by WINIFRED WRIGIIT
An Intolerable Situation by ALMA CULLEN with Diana Olsson
' What an extraordinary summer this will be to look back on: the summer you went off to China; the summer the children first went on holiday without us; the summer I stayed alone in Edinburgh and picked up the threads of my career ...'
Produced and directed by GORDON EMSLIE . BBC Scotland
Mike Nichols and Elaine May first came to prominence in the late 50s. Their improvised sketches were enormously successful in America on radio, television and the stage. This programme is a selection of the best of their devastating social satire.
Producer SIMON BRETT
The Frightening Talent 13)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Sins of Commission by R. D. WINGFIELD with Made redundant after 19 years faithful service with a firm of diamond merchants, Mr Fletcher is willing to take on almost any job. Mr Merry is more than willing to offer him one. The only snag is Mr Fletcher's insistence on it being legal.
Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
John Ebdon has recently spent a further holiday in Greece and found once again that his preconceived ideas were a little wide of the mark.;
The story of a Royal Family Script by FRANCES DONALDSON Narrator Richard Pasco 1: George V
I I fear I cannot admire the names you propose to give the baby. However, if the dear child grows up good and wise, I shall not mind what his name iS.' (QUEEN VICTORIA) The ba"by was to grow up to become King George V, the first monarch of the House of Windsor. This new documentary series tells the story of King George and his successors - Edward VIII , George VI and Elizabeth II. who has graciously given her permission for use to be made ef material from the Royal Archives.
With Sebastian Shaw as George V and BETTY BASKCOMB DAVID GRAHAM , GARARD GREEN MADI HEDD, DAVID MARCH and DENIS MCCARTHY
Theme music for the series has been specially composed by Malcolm Williamson , Master of the Queen's Music, and performed by the London MOZART PLAYERS, conducted by ANTONY HOPKINS
The first of four programmes Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group (8)
2: World War II
Peter Windows examines the acts of bravery which won men the vcs during the newer styles of battle in the Second World War, including the epic struggle for Arnhem.
The second of three programmes. Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
preceded by Weather
