What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought /or the Day
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
From the Temple Clfurch, London
Conducted by the Reader of the Temple,
THE REV PREBENDARY W. D. KENNEDY-BELL
Litany (Tallis,- five-part)
Epistle: Hebrews 10, vv 1-25
Gospel: St John 19, vv 2-37
Creed (Darke in F)
Hymns: So rest my rest: 0 sacred head, sore wounded (EH 102)
Organist and Choirmaster GEORGE THALBEN-BALL
The fifth talk by Bishop Michael Ramsey on the meaning of Holy Week. (Final talk tomorrow at
10.30 am)
Brian Johnston recently visited Coventry Cathedral Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat: Easter Day 5.15)
Story: The Baby Deer by MARGARET GORE
Presenters ALISON MCMOR LAND and GARY TAYLOR Written by ALISON MCMORLAND
Producer JANET BOULDING
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news: long nave only
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
' If we have tears to shed on Calvary, they come less from the cruelty and violence, still less from the thunder and darkness; much more from the great cry of Jesus: " It is finished! Redemption is finished! Forgiveness and healing are to be found here! " '
A meditation, in words and music, on the death of Jesus, led by Fr Gerard Meath , op
Producer CRISPIAN HOLLIS
The Temptation Game by John CARDNER
A Gothic tale set in medieval England. Brother Ferly. in a state of shock, has wandered down from his hilltop monastery. A peasant finds him and takes him to an inn. There he meets some old friends. He tells them the story of how he came to play the temptation game ...
Violin player DIANA DIXON Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author
With MICHAEL GOLDIE and PENELOPE REYNOLDS Book 2, Chapter 2: The Guests
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
(First broadcast in 1977)
The Pilgrim's Progress by JOHN BUNYAN abridged in five parts and read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS (5) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
with Richard Hudson -Evans bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Easter Monday at 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of the best in BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Rev rpt: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Soper Arianna Stassinopoulos John Ebdon
Ronald Harwood
Chairman David Jacobs from Wenhaston, Suffolk Producer CAROLE STONE
(Repeated: Sat at 1.10 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 10.30, to Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]
Preview: page 27
Regional Variations (2)
Letter from America
BBC Radio 4 FM
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Government unable to vouch for nuclear safety
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Government admits being unable to guarantee nuclear reactor safety. Public support for nuclear power industry slumps. Show more
Patey's Pavilion
At the end of Hope Street high on a hill above the Mersey looms Liverpool Cathedral. A Gothic building of plum red sandstone designed in 1902 by Giles Gilbert Scott, it is the largest enclosed space in the world and also one of the youngest, completed only last year. Dean Edward Patey shows Peter France the splendid vistas, modern stained glass, and the highest peal of bells in the world.
Also taking part are JOE RILEY , the Cathedral's historian, TOMMY MURPHY , a stonemason still working there after 40 years and the organist, NOEL RAWSTHORNE .
Producer CHRIS SWANN
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the David Firman Trio Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE , BARRY BOWES and GEOFFREY AT-KINSON
Producer
JONATHAN JAMES MOORE
(Repeated: Sat at 5.25 pm) Woddis on ... page 23
Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.55 am)
by Janet Hitchman abridged in ten parts by the author Read by Elizabeth Proud
(Starting on Monday: Lady into Fox by David Garnett)
A meditation in words and music for the evening of Good Friday chosen and presented by Michael Mayne. with readings by Judi Dench.
(First broadcast on Good Friday 1978)
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(B'cast on Mon at 8.45 am)
A series of plays for late-night listening
A comic fantasy by William Fox
What would happen if those castaways whom Roy Plomley maroons on a desert island were actually to land up there? It would be a life of many surprises.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
