with Moira Stuart
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Moira Stuart
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by ROGER MASON (2)
The Conductor and The Orchestra
The audience is hushed, the orchestra poised, the conductor raises his baton.... and the performance begins.
But what has led up to this moment; how was the programme chosen and rehearsed, who auditioned the musicians, and how did the conductor get his experience?
Put your questions to Sir Chartes Groves, Music Director of the English National Opera and John Bimson , Chairman and co-principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Margaret Korving finds out about unusual places and people by way of books and writers.
3: In South Devon, where she was caught by the blizzard, but managed to keep on the trail of the Forsyte ancestors and Nevil Shute 's ' Lonely Road'; visit Brixham in search of the bells which play hymns; and find the locations and origins of The Onedin Line. Reader Garard Green
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 122; Come, ye faithful (BBC HB 102); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Matthew 28, vv 11-20 (av); Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101)
Scrag by MARK SCOTT
Read by Blain Fairman
Instinctively he reached for his gun, ready to shoot whatever moved. How many times had he killed that day?
It did move, as much as a twig would move. He looked down. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER (Postponed from 7 March)
A Day in the Life of by VICKY IRELAND With
Fiona Walker as Cass Swift
It's a routine day for the nursing staff but a mind-blowing 24 hours for the young woman who has just become a mother.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
April is a swaying bridge between the two parts of a dissected year. We stand on it. April's eternal Jools.
Gwyn Thomas with some highly personal reflections on the season of the year.
Reader DOUGLAS BLACKWELL Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Introduced by Brian Widlake
(Easter Monday's broadcast)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Recipe Swap Shop: ANN TEN-NANT discusses with professional cook PRUE LEITH some listeners' favourite recipes.
2.0-2.2 News
Another Month Older: MAUREEN STEVENS on the pleasures or otherwise of Bank Holidays.
Continental Campers: GORDON SNELL relaxing in rural France. Poets in Print: NORMAN HIDDEN, Editor of New Poetry, with advice to budding poets.
In The Frame by DICK FRANCIS abridged by SHIRLEY COOKLIN in 12 episodes
Read by Jack Watson (1)
'The big room was scattered with busy police, measuring, photographing, dusting for fingerprints. I knew they were there, but all I saw was Regina lying on her back, her face the colour of cream, and one arm flung out sideways with the dead white fingers curling upwards as if in supplication. There had been no mercy.' (Music: Corazon, played by Woody Herman )
Story: Mr Corkindale and the Dentist Bird by WILLIAM RANKIN
by ROBERT BAGE dramatised in five parts by D. G. BRIDSON with and First published in 1796, Hermsprong is a delightful, witty, surprisingly modern novel which until recently has received almost no literary acclaim. Set in England at the close of the 18th century, it is a probing, picaresque tale which evokes the most important issues of the day while at the same time, in a period of revolution abroad, questions the established order with a refreshing simplicity.
1: Lord Grondale is Annoyed
Directed by ROGER FINE
BBC Birmingham
The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill arranged in four parts by TERENCE COOPER
Read by Betty Hardy (1)
Lady Dorothy, by birth a Walpole, lived from 1826 to 1913. She loved gardens and animals; her friends included statesmen, actors, writers, and leaders of society; and her memoirs reveal the gusto and wit which made her one of the ' characters ' of her day.
Presented by Brian Widlake
Musical Journeys in Africa
In the third of five programmes Jean Jenkins introduces some of the music she has recorded in Africa and describes various adventures she had en route.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHFRegional news and weather
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Peter Jones and Sheila Hancock endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
A weekly series of poetry programmes
Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT
Including Shelley's Adonais
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Tony Palmer Producer ALAN NIXON
Douglas Stuart reporting
(Shortened version of Easter Day's broadcast at 12.15)
Esther Waters (12)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
