For Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Sunday Reading
MGR PATRICK MCENROE reads from The Risen Christ by CARYLL HOUSELANDER
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
A weekly look at religious news at home and abroad.
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOUN NEWBURY
anne SHELTON appeals on behalf of Cabrini House. This short-stay home offers specialised care for handicapped children while the rest of the family have a holiday. Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather: programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
Easter Eucharist celebrated by THE RT REV ROBIN EAMES , Bishop Of Derry and Raphoe, in St Columb's Cathedral
Service conducted by the Dean, THE VERY REV GEORGE GOOD
Music for the Service: Darke in f
Organist MICHAEL HOEG
Epistle: Revelation 1, w 12-18
Gospel: Mark 16, vv 1-3
Hymns (ich): Jesus Christ Is risen today
(133); The strife is o'er (142)
Anthem: Christ is risen (Martin How )
BBC Northern Ireland
Tom Vernon presents a selection of your reactions and responses to programmes on radio and television.
Producer KAY EVANS
If you have any bouquets or brickbats please write to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London VIA 4WW
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Sotting
Including Debatable Point A Financial World Tonight production
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.. "A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." (W.H. Auden)
with the voices of Tony Hancock, Tom Lehrer, Woody Allen, John Cleese and Jonathan Miller
Preview: page 23
Basil Boothroyd presents The Levity and Gravity of Sydney Smith, the 19th-century clergyman and reformer whom Lord Macaulay classed as a satirist second only to Swift. ' The Sloth spends its life in trees. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense ... like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop."
Sydney Smith is played by Colin Blakely
Producer peter DE ROSA (First broadcast in 1977)
Sir Charles Groves presents his personal choice of poetry and prose
Readings by Judl Deneb. and Michael Williams Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSO (Shortened repeat)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
(In other words:
Nigel Perrin. Alastair Hume , Bill Ives , Anthony Holt , Simon Carrington , Brian Kay ) introduce and sing some of the songs The King's Singers sing.
Today: Spirituals Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
visits Dyfed where members of the Aberporth Women's Institute put their questions to FRED LOADS
CLAY JONES and PROFESSOR
ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester (Rev rpt:
Wed 10.5 am)
The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
with Ian Holm, Gareth Thomas, Rosalind Ayres and Christopher Benjamin
The soldiers who came to the village of Overcombe and won the hearts of the young ladies had little idea that they'd end up as dust on the battlefields of Salamanca, Toulouse and Waterloo. For one particular soldier, his affair of the heart was complicated by a rival who was not only a sailor, but also his brother.
(First broadcast in 1977)
Contestants challenge a resident team in England to a series of two-round contests.
(Full details: Wed 10.40 pm)
Natural history news and views that are surfacing at one of America's liveliest universities - a special magazine edition from Harvard, Massachusetts. Introduced by Peter France
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
Presented by David Scott Blackhall Large and Clear
MARGARET FORD has been looking for Bibles and hymn books that are easy to read if one has poor sight.
Producer THENA HESHEL
Brian Johnston recently visited Coventry Cathedral Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol (Rev rpt of Good Friday's broadcast)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Omnibus edition Written by HELEN LEADBEATER BBC Birmingham
An anthology for Easter Day in words and music
Introduced by Peter Firth
With JILL BALCON and GARY WATSON
ST MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS directed by RICHARD HICKOX
Organist IAN WATSON
Producer Hubert HOSKINS
AGUSTIN ANIEVAS (piano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by AVI OSTROWSKY
Mozart Symphony No 38, in 0 (Prague) (K 504)
8.39* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1. in F sharp minor. BBC Manchester
by Charles Kingsley dramatised for radio in six parts by Barry Campbell
Fired by tales of returning adventurers from the Spanish Main in 1575. Young Amyas Leigh of Bideford, in Devon, is determined on his own voyage of discovery and riches....
(Full details: Tues 3.35pm)
9.58 Weather
Sir Ralph Richardson introduces the work of one of Britain's greatest actors to mark his 75th birthday on 14 April.
Excerpts include his radio performance of Hamlet in 1948 and Richard II to 1961: also recordings from Alan Bennett 's Forty Years On and Harold Pinter 's No Man's Land.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
This programme is available on a BBC record, REGL 351; also on cassette ZCF 351 from record shops
for Easter Day Devised by MONICA FURLONG
Narrator DAVID STRONG Music: BBC SINGER$
A series of plays for late-night listening.
There Must be a Door by RON HUTCHINSON
Two middle-aged school teachers who have spent an uneventful number of years touring churches of interest in East Anglia, find themselves confronted by a terrifyingly concrete demonstration of Infinity.
Directed by ROGER PINK BBC Birmingham
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
