Presented from Scotland by ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Scotland
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Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DAVID CAINK
7.8. 9.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Throughout the General Election campaign, you can put your questions live by telephone to leading politicians. As the campaign progresses, you can raise the issues you feel are the most important.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to spokesmen for the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru on their policies and their views of the major parties' policies.
Producers WALTER WALLICH and JOCK EditorGALLAGHER BERNARD TATE
Lines are open from 8.0 am
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 122; Good Christian men, rejoice (BBC ne 103); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Luke 24, w 13.24 (AV); This joyful Easter-tide (BBC HB 115)
A Poet and his Enemy by JENNY STEBBINGS
Read by Peter Craze Producer MITCH RAPER
Reflections of a Well-conditioned Madman: or Mind Over Matter by JACK QUARTER with and Harrington and Themidy, better known as 012948 and 012950, are laboratory rats used by Dr Professor Wilhelm Rein holt for demonstration purposes during his lecture on Management Efficiency. However, Harrington has a sense of humour, and he's getting fed up pressing a bar on demand ...
Other parts played by PETER BALDWIN BILL MONKS and BLAIN FAIRMAN
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Chirp, the Bold Bad
Chick!
A Listen with Mother play for Easter by BARBARA LLOYD EVANS
Chirp finds himself falling down, down, down into a rabbit hole - a rabbit hole with a difference! Cast:
JEAN ROGERS , AURIOL SMITH TONY AITKEN , SEAN BARRETT Producer JANET BOULDING
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
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Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
The Tradescant Trust: BERNARD JACKSON Visits St Mary-at -Lambeth where the Trust, in saving the derelict church, is establishing a centre for gardeners and a museum of Garden History.
April Showers: Helen PALMER has collected music, poetry and assorted noises to appease an ancient enemy -rain.
Findino a New Voice.-MAUREEN GALVIN finds out about help for postlaryngectomy patients.
Regrets, I've Had A Few: FRANK ARTHUR , BARBARA BUCHANAN and BASIL BANKS reflect on things they wished they'd said.
Stories of Uncle Eugenia 4: Dona Rosa 's Spy
Another chance to hear the late and much-loved Barbara Mullen's conversation with Derek Jones about her experiences watching wildlife in Ireland,and on location in Scotland during the making of episodes for Dr Finlay's Casebook, illustrated with wildlife recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON
BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1972)
by CHARLES KINCSLEY dramatised for radio In six parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with William Squire Tim Woodward Richard Greene Julie Dawn Cole Brian Jackson
1: The Call of the Sea
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 ...
Other parts played by JUNE MARLOW, ANNA NYGH and DAVID PONTING
Music composed and conducted by NICHOLAS MARSHALL
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
4.30 Announcements
1066 And All That by W. C. SELLAR and R. J. YEATMAN abridged in four instalments by DONALD BANCROFT Read by Arthur Marshall and Barrv Justice (1)
A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember including 103 Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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5.55 Weather; programme news
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Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon Tim Rice
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(First broadcast last June)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW.
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
In Glasgow there exists a computer capable of predicting the survival prospects of people with serious head injuries. In Leeds a similar machine is bedng used to diagnose the causes of abdominal pain. Do these developments signal a profound change in medical thought? Do they threaten the doctor-patient relationship?
Geoff Watts talks to the doctors in Leeds and Glasgow about the medical and moral implications of these computer systems.
Producer FIONA GOOIDALL
Hollywood Now
' Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids ... It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.' (DAVID 0. SELZNICK) Hollywood's future has been written off many times bitt it continues to adapt and prosper.
AlexanderWalkertalksto some of the people working in the film industry today.
Producer DAVID FERRY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
(Rev rpt of Saturday's broadcast at 12.27)
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Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presented by John liosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude