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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson
With MARGARET HOWARD
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DAVID CAINK
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Bead by LAURIE MACMILLAIN
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 the Labour Party on their policies and their views of the other parties' policies.
Lines are open from 8.0 am
(A revised repeat of Easter Day's broadcast at
2.0 pm)
NEM, p 114; That Easter-tide with joy was bright (BBC HB 11); Psalm 82; Luke 24. vv 25-35 (av); The strife is o'er, the battle done (BBC HB 114)
Memory In White by BUDD SCHULBERG
Bead by Barry Warren
A conversation in which guests contribute their own experiences of dealing with personal, moral and spiritual issues, 3: Providence
Devised and presented by John Newbury
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
Story: The Too-Fat, Too-Thin King by A. J. MCCARTEN
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckun
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Introduced by June Knox Mawer
Guest of the Week: Florence Nagle. dog breeder, horse trainer and eccentric extraordinary.
Reading Your Letters.
From Cordon Bleu to Chow-Mein: DAVID HAWKSWORTH reports on the growth of ' take-away' foods.
You are Summonsed to Appear: In England and Wales, 95 per cent of criminal cases —mainly motoring offences, offences against property or the person and offences of drunkenness - are heard In the Magistrates' Courts. In this series NORMAN tozer compiles an A-Z guide to the system.
1: Arrest and Summons Stories of Uncle Eugenio by ROBERT CULFF abridged in five episodes Read by BERNARD JACKSON 5: The Old Dog
The Trouble with Men by PETER GORDON
HELEN: If only you didn't have that awful accent and spoke decent English. And those clothes! If only he'd wear a decent, sober, nice dark suit-just transform himself a bit - then - who knows what?
Directed by GERRY JONES
from Bradford Cathedral Introit: Alleluia, the Lord is risen indeed (Gibbons) Responses (Reading)
Psalms 93 and 94 (Lloyd, Barber)
Lessons (bsv): Isaiah 25, w 1-9; I Peter 2, w 1-10 Office Hymn: A brighter dawn is breaking (EH 126) Canticles (Wood in F)
Anthem: Haec Dies (Palestrina)
Organist KEITU RHOIDES Assistant Organist BARRY LANCASTER BBC Manchester
1066 and All That (2)
The news magazine Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STIVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
- the life and art of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Tree once said of himself ' I can't help being exceptional.' He was a man of enormous contrasts - an innovator and yet the producer of over-decorated Shakespearean productions.Themirrorofhis generation, he reflected the attitudes of Edward VII and led his life against a background of grandiose productions, attended by a glittering aristocracy.
Bryan Forbes presents a portrait of the actor-manager whom Bernard Shaw described as the most modest of men ' and of whom Oscar Wilde said, ' A charming fellow - he models himself on me '. with Robert Eddison as Sir Herbert Producer JOHN knight
The political parties all have their prescriptions for curing Britain's problems, but, what will their policies mean for the economy, Industry and the nation as a whole?
In the first of two programmes, Michael Charlton talks to people outside the party political arena about the issues arising from the manifestoes.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNIRMAN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Contestants from France, Germany. Denmark. Austria. Switzerland. Poland, Spain and Italy challenge a resident team in England to a series of two-round contests. Round 1:
England v France England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich France :
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Professor Henry Appia and Professor
Paul-Gabriel Bouc é of the University of Paris Question Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer
TREVOR DILL
BBC Manchester
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Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presented by John Hosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
