Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Gerald Priestland
6.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter, including today's quarter-finals in the FA Cup and the John Player Rugby Cup.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
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Reports from BBC correspondents around the world.
A Radio News production
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Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Andrew Neil.
Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON
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Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
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NEM, p 122; Happy are they, they that love God (BBC HB 274); Psalm 40; 1 Thessalonians 1, vv 1-10 (NEB); 0 dear and heavenly city (BBC HB 251)
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Margaret Howard 's selection
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Introduced by Henry Knowles
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Presented by Geoff Watts Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Lord Hailsham of StMarylebone Peter Prior, Jo Richardson , mp Antony Jay (B'cast Friday)
medium only by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by Louise AND AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with David Buck , Kate Binchy Martin Jarvis , Anna Cropper Christopher Guinee Jeremy Clyde
Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
'What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.'
1: St Petersburg, 1805
Directed by RONALD MASON , executive producer
(First broadcast in 1969)
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Marilyn Alan, with the help of guests in the studio, takes a look at some things that matter to disabled people. After the programme listeners can put forward their own views by phoning [number removed] from 3.30 to 4.30.
medium only: as Radio 3
Sheridan Morley makes a selection from the books. plays, films, music and other arts reviewed during the past week. Editor ROSEMARY HART
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Musical punctuations by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Christopher Grier with records (Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
by James Follett
with T.P. McKenna as Max Flinders, Rosalind Adams as Denise Exon and Paul Copley as Howard Rogers
Ralph Exon, working for an international fertiliser corporation, has created a new strain of plant: a mutation which he hopes will bring relief to the famine-ridden countries of the world. It is an innocent-looking plant. But in that plant, known as the Exon strain, there also lurks the Destruction Factor.
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Third of ten programmes
Portrait of a City - Liverpool Written and presented by Roger McGough
'The liners are gone, the Beatles are gone; the planners have torn the heart out of the city and transplanted concrete. But Liverpool goes on. People still live here. Most of them, it seems, have a passion for the place.'
With BILL BOTHWELL , BILLY BUTLER , JOHN CAINE , TOM O'CON NOR, IVOR DOWNEY , KEN DODD , SIR CHARLES GROVES, ADRIAN HENRI , BRIAN JACQUES , LESLIE LAWTON. BILL MORRISON , STANLEY REYNOLDS , BILL SHANKLEY, FRITZ SPIEGL. FR JOHN THOMPSON , CELIA VAN MULLEN. BOB WOOLER ; The Kop. and the men, women and children of Liverpool
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Thoughts and prayers for Lent led by FATHER CRISPIAN HOLLIS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
