News, weather, papers, sport
6.25 Shipping forecast
(long wave only)
Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV IAN OGILVY
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.39. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus regulars, Fran Morrison in Edinburgh; Gerry Monte in Cardiff. Dr Anthony Clare and Frank Delaney , taking an amused look around in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview and the intriguing personal story or unusual views of other studio guests.
Musical contributions by ALAN CLARE
Producer HUMPHREY WALWYN
NEM, page 118; God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453); Psalm 91, vv 1-13; Luke 22, vv 24-38 (AV); Christian, unflinching stand (BBC HB 350)
The Gift by RUTH HARRIS
Read by Olive Pendleton The Windsor chair stood by itself in the middle of the shop window. It looked lonely. Abandoned almost. Except that you didn't abandon that sort of thing. Then Mrs Oliver remembered. She had abandoned hers.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Millions of holidaymakers will be using London's crowded airports this summer. There was a plan to build another airport at Maplin to ease the congestion, but it was abandoned five years ago. Now the search is on again, and as planners comb the south-east looking for a safe and accessible place, Derek Wood examines the need for a third London airport, and looks at current thinking on the timing and siting of this controversial project. Producer ANNE WINDER
Story: Magnolia-The Tree Friend by PATRICIA CLEVELAND-PSCE
Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast ongwave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Who Loves Not Woman, Wine and Song/Remains a fool his whole life long: PAMELA VANDYKE PRICE has some suggestions for visiting a vineyard for a holiday.
The Bandsman's Daughter: IRENE THOMAS , one-time opera singer, Black and White Minstrel and Brain of Britain talks about her varied 'ife in and out of broadcasting. Kestrels In The Kitchen (9)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
Cold Earth Travelling by MIKE WALKER based on a Chaucerian tale with A freezing cold winter. a time of Plague, a time when, quite literally, Death stalks the earth. Three men decide to find Death, kill him and steal his gold. ' It's cold down there, brother. Cold in the ground ... cold travelling nowhere ... '
Music specially composed and conducted by DAVID CAIN
DOREEN WALKER (contralto) NICHOLAS MCGEGAN (flute) CHRISTOPHER WILSON (lute) NIGEL SHIPWAY (percussion) Directed by DAVID SPENSER
Animal Farm (8)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Written by KEITH MILES
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The fourth of seven programmes on The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwatte with the poems read by GARY WATSON 4: Egypt
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Third transmission. Full details: Monday 7.45)
The first of two anthologies in which Peter White looks at the way football has been portrayed in fiction, and in verse. This programme concentrates on soccer, and includes excerpts from the writings of Harold Pinter , J. B. Priestley and Dannie Abse , as well as a description of a rather bloody match played in a Welsh village in the 18th century as viewed by a ycung woman who was aggrieved at not being allowed to play.
Readers ALISON DRAPER
CARARD GREEN
KENNETH SHANLEY
Producer THENA HESHEL
(The second anthology, on rugger, will be broadcast on Thursday 19 April)
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Richard Cork
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The King of the Barbareens (4) long ware only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed hy an interlude
