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 LESLIE STORIES
7.1, 8.0 Today's Newt Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Book: Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, £1.35, from bookshops

reftects on people, places and things as they were, and how they are, with the help of BBC Sound Archives.

Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music. all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.

NEM. p 34; Christ the Lordlanlsen!(BBChb 100); Canticle 8; Luke 24, vv 1-12 (AV); Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (BBC HB 102)

Whether you actually are in a ' bumper-to-bumper non-going situation or simply stuck at home contemplating all those little jobs you've been promising to do, this programme might just be the answer.
Richard Stilgoe introduces The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band under the direction of DEREK BROADBENT Aiden J. Harvey
Professor Stanley Unwin and The Fasola Duo
Written by RICHARD STILGOE Musical director
BRIAN FITZGERALD
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester

Four programmesabouthow society and individuals have been trying to help underprivileged children. 1: Love. Serve
The Seventh Karl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) and his social reforms. by JANET HITCHMAN with Gabriel Woolf as Shaftesbury
* If this country Is to rely on the slavery and blood oflittlechildrenforits prosperity, then it deserves anarchy and ruin to fall upon It .
' The future hopes of a country must, under God, be laid in the character and condition of its children. However right It may be to attempt, it Is almost fruitless to expect, the reformation of Its adults: as the sapling has been bent, so will it grow.'
Narrator Henry Knowles Edwin Hodder
ANTHONY NTWLANDS witth the voices of PETRA DAVIES, ADRIAN EGAN , BRENDA KAYE , MICHAEL MCSTAY , MICHAELA NOAKES , DAVID SAVAGE and PHILIP voss. Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

A nationwide general knowledge contest In which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 8: London (2)
DAVID GODDARO Librarian (London); R. G. JONES Retired Civil Servant (London); DENNIS BYERS Statistics Clerk (London); PETER BROWN Journalist (London)
IncludingBeattheBrains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN r. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer Richard EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Presenter Brian Wldlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

In today's edition, Dame Edna Everage joins presenter June Knox-Mawer to deliver her special Easter Message and to lend the ear of ' the warmest woman In the world ' to:
Eduard Grieg and Norway: DOREEN TAYLOR has visited the composer's home - ' Troldhaugen '.
OutofContext:»Avn> HAWKSWORTH talks to actors NANETTE NEWMAN and BRYAN FORBES about their lesser-known activity-writing.
Stories of Uncle Eugenlo by ROBERT CULFF abridged In five episodes Read by BERNARD JACKSON 3: The School Picnic Editor WYN KNOWLES See page 3

The Linden Tree by J. B. PRIESTLEY adapted for radio by MOLLIE GREENHAUGH with Geoffrey Banks and Kathleen Heime.
England 1947, and rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family. Professor Linden wants only te continue teaching in a world that no longer seems to share his quiet ideals. His family urge him to retire from the fight but the Professor is not so easily deterred.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1977)

The Crooked Bat
' At school we faced the tyranny of cricket and all games, tn the same uncomplaining way that we faced thirds, fractions, Canada's exports, Euclid, Tasmania's imports, and the Hundred Years' War
Arthur Marshall 's memoir of prep-school education in the 1920s.
BBC Bristol

(Tues-Fri: Arthur Marshall and Barry Justice present 1066 and all that)

with Gordon Dough and Robert Williams Editor Derek LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
1.55 weather; programme news

The former radio show
Lesson 37: Is Britain Going The Burkiss Way?
starring Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett, Fred Harris
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick
Producer DAVID HATCH

Preview: page 21

(Repeatedl: lues 1.40 pm)

BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about ttie countries they work in - the politics and the people.
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by Nicolai Gogol, translated by Edward O. Marsh and Jeremy Brooks
[Starring] Robert Powell as Khylestakov with Paul Hardwick as The Mayor

"Gentlemen, fellow officials, as Mayor of this town, it is my duty to tell you some very nasty news: there's a Government Inspector on his way to see us."
Radio adaptation by Walter Hall
(A BBC World Service Drama production)
(Repeated: next Sunday
2.30 pm)

Easter Blessings
Robert Foxcroft looks at three recently published books which reflect human growth and joy, with help from MARY CRAIG , JOHN EBDON and JILL COCWRANE.
Producer CRISPIAN HOLLIS

Lauren Bacall, in conversation with Micheal Billington, talks about her career in films, The Big Sleep, How to Marry a Millionaire and Murder on the Orient Express. She also recalls many of her friends and colleagues - Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hawks, Henry Moore and, of course, Humphrey Bogart.

(In next week's Radio Times there is a colour feature on the new Raymond Chandler season, which begins next Saturday on BBC2 with The Big Sleep)

9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIB OSBORNE

In tracing some of the political and soda] trends in Britain since the Last war George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view with the benefit of hindsight; their personal part in events.
Sir Robert Mark , former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, talks about crime and violence, and about changing police methods.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Lady into Fox by DAVIO GARNETT abridged in five parts by MADGE HART. Read by Michael Hordern (1)
' Where his wife had been the moment before was a small fox, of a very bright red. It looked at him very beseechingly, advanced towards him a pace or two, and he saw at once that his wife was looking at him from the animal's eyes.'
Producer maurice LEITCH

Victorian Music-Hall from underneath the arches
Introduced by Ian Wallace with those firm favourites Sheila Bernette , Jan Hunt Robin Hunter Denis Martin
Sheila Mathews Julia Sutton and Clifton Todd At the pianoforte Geoffrey Brawn Special material DENIS MARTIN Producer
TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude