A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
Gerald Priestland 's Review: page 86
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A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY parkin BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
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Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the people in the news and the issues that matter in a hectic Easter weekend which includes international events in swimming, show jumping and golf.
A Radio Sport and ob production
8.45 Today's Papers
Traditionally, Spring is the time for falling in love. But does it really affect the way you feel?
The second of four investigations into the effect of Spring on our lives.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
Getaway People
Michael Vestey meets some tourists with an unusual taste for holidays. including a family who spent a fortnight in Cuba, a woman who travelled to Siberia, and a man who took a boat to the Antarctic.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER
As the political armies fire off round after round of ammunition at each other in the march towards Downing Street, Anthony King , Professor of Government at the University of Essex, takes a detached view of the battle and assesses the underlying strategies of the campaign. Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
Editor ANNE SLOMAN
Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
New Every Morning, p 30; There is a green hill far away (BBC HB 92); Psatm 22; Luke 23, vv 44-56 (AV); When I survey the wondrous Cross (BBC HB 97)
The last talk by Bishop Michael Ramsey on the meaning of Holy Week.
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
The fifth of seven programmes about
The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwaite with the poems read by GARY WATSON 5: Africa
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
'Mermaids' purses ' can often be found along the sea shore - but how and why do mermaids make purses? The team takes a discreet look at the contents of such a purse while answering your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Easter Monday at 10.5 am)
Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester
Andy Price makes life cheaper and easier for all the family with the help of Anne Brown and the You and Yours team of experts.
Producer SALLY Thompson
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Peter Cook
Russell Davies Martin Jackson
Newsreader JOHN MARSH Compiled and produced by ALAN NIXON and DANNY GREENSTONE
(Rev rpt: Tues 10.40 pm)
Barry Took 's Preview: page 23
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A spontaneous discussion Chairman David Jacobs from Wenhaston, Suffolk Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
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Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read, borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer denys GUEROULT
(Repeated: Easter Day at
11.15 pm)
John, Peter, Thomas and So Forth by HARRY WILLIAMS with Alan Moore and Tammy Ustinov
' I hate and detest that animal called Man, though I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and SO forth.' (JONATHAN SWIFT) Swift's saying is the theme of this love story set in Palestine in 1947, when a British officer falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Does He Take Sugar? - a weekly magazine of special interest to disabled listeners.
Marilyn Alan invites you to join her in a special musical Holiday Saturday programme.
Editor MARLENE PEASE
A series of eight programmes in which some of the leading Welsh choirs perform favourite items from their repertoire and relate briefly the story of the choir. This week:
The Ladies Hafren conductor JAYNE DAVIES Presented by John Huw Davies
Written by JEN POSTON Producer ARNOLD LEWIS BBC Wales
Geoffrey Smith talks to Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden.
Producer
KEN FORK BBC
Manchester
Best seller? Box-office success? Top of the charts? Top of the ratings?
Chris Powling introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week. Editor ROSEMARY HART
and how to achieve it with David Jason and Stephen Moore
Sheila Steafel. David Tate and the music of John Owen Edwards Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON and ALISTAIR BEATON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
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in conversation with his guests. Musical interludes by HUMPHREY LYTTELTON and ALAN PRICE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
The novel by RIDER HAGGARD dramatised by VICTOR PEMBERTON with The first broadcast of Rider Haggard's immortal romance. Life exists; why then should not the means of preserving it also exist? On Leo Vincey's 25th birthday, the contents of the box that Horace Holly has kept in safe-keeping for his ward, send them on a strange adventure, to find, among the great mountains and swamps of Africa, the beautiful white woman who rules over a savage people who have never seen her. She. who has power over all things living and dead, and whose life is-eternal: She-who-must-be-obeyed.
Others taking part: JOE DUNLOP and HILDA KRISEMAN
Music specially composed by ANTHONY SMITH-MASTERS Directed by DAVID SPENSER (Repeated: Thurs at 7.30 pm and Friday at 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Bill Robertson uncovers the far-reaching tentacle* of the public relation* industry.
3: Off the Record
Parliament and the Presa are no less susceptible than the public to the techniques of persuasion - but is it true that there is no such thing as a free lunch?
Producer ROGER PARRY Editor ROGER MACDONALD
A meditation for the eve of Easter. Six voices speak in a dramatic chorus version of St Mark 's Passion narrative. Devised by PETER MULLEN BBC Manchester
The last of nine programmes in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th-century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West.
9: The Gladiators
The piano in the lion's den: friendly battles with an orchestra, and some memorable gaffes. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON Records followed by an interlude
A series of plays for late-night listening Chequemates by ROY RUSSELL with James Cossins and Ray Brooks
POMFREY: I'm afraid you've quite a lot to learn about fiscal matters, Mr Ross. I do know the financial rules of business and you deviate from them at your peril.
Sound advice from a bank manager, but does he take it himself?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
