7.15 Apna Hi Ghar SamaJliiye. for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.15 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God
THE REV MICHAEL WALKER reflects on the Easter Message as told by St Matthew : Matthew 28, vv 1-10
7.55 Weather: programme news
preceded by an Easter hymn
Sixteen years ago there were those who dared to hope that the unity of the British churches might come about by today, Easter Day 1980.
Michael Cooke presents a special feature on what went wrong.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
DR BILL Gould appeals on behalf of The Conference for World Mission which shares in the work of the United Mission Hospital, Tansen, West Nepal. Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather; programme news
preceded by an Easter hymn
On Easter Day
Choral Mattins from the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Norwich
Officiant THE REV
CANON PETER BRADSHAW
Preacher THE VERY REV DAVID EDWARDS , Dean of Norwich
Introit: Love is come again (traditional French) Responses (William Smith ) Jubilate (Britten in c); Te Deum (Statham in c); Anthem: Haec dies (William Byrd)
Hvmns (A and M Rev): The day of resurrection! (132); Love's redeeming work is done (141)
Lessons: Ezekiel 37. vv 1-14 (AV); Luke 24, vv 13-35 (AV)
Organist MICHAEL NICHOLAS Assistant Organist MALCOLM ARCHER
Omnibus edition Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN Producer
WILI.IAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Sandra Clark with words and music for Easter and highlights from the weekday programme.
Second of 13 programmes This week Benny Green invites you to share his enjoyment in recalling the words, music and people that have tickled his sense of humour. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Derek Cooper takes the lid off food - good and bad, fun and fast - and the industry behind it.
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12-55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Your responses and reactions to programmes on radio and television.
Presented by Tom Vernon ProducerJENNY DE YONG
Comments to: Feedback, BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
1.55 long wave
Shipping forecast
1.55 VHF
Programme news
visits Avon where members of the Bath and District Horticultural Society put their questions to: FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.5 am) (Go Down the Garden Path with Geoffrey Smith : Tuesday 9.15 pm)
John Hallam in The Famous Voyage by FRANCIS DILLON with Elizabeth Bell Andrew Sachs Brian Carroll Philip Fox and Graham Faulkner
' Valiant, just. wise, milde, honest, godly Drake.'
' The arrantest knave, the vilest villain, the falsest thief and the cruellest murderer that ever was born.' Drake's epic voyage round the world lasted three years and confirmed him as the greatest of England's national heroes.
Yet after 400 years the enigma of his character
, remains.
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
(Details: Tues 10.30 pm)
with Peter France
A magazine edition which catches up on the events and ideas that are changing our understanding of actions - and interactions - of living things.
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
ProducerPADDY O'KEEFFE
The ancient city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, with its Roman remains and its Abbey Cathedral, whose most recent Bishop is the new Archbishop of Canterbury, is Brian Johnston's Down Your Way choice for this Easter weekend.
Producer Sarah Pitt
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 12.20 pm)
5.51 long wave
Shipping forecast
5.50 VHF
Programme news
5.55 Weather; programme news
Twenty years ago the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was at its height. The Aldermaston crowds massing in Trafalgar Square were the largest since VE Day. That autumn the Labour Party Annual Conference voted for unilateral disarmament.
Today Jonathan Dimblcby asks Who's Afraid of the Bomb? A BBC opinion poll confirms that many of us are ' worried ' or ' very worried ', yet few of us are doing anything about it - either by campaigning or even by seeking more information. Why?
Producers HUGH PURCELL and JOHN SMITHSON
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read. borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated: Tues 4.10 pm)
How far back can living memory go? How many generations do reach the beginning of the 19th century?
' I don't think he would realise politically what had happened in Moscow, why they were retreating ... he remembers soldiers hammering on the door ...'
'He was chased by Queen Caroline's mob.... he was dressed for the Coronation, and she was not allowed in ...' 'A A man who was well over 90 came to show us over ... his father had been the jailer ... '
' ... you paid twopence to go in to see the lunatics on a Sunday.'
Joan Yorke presents some more recently recorded memories about life in Britain and on the Continent long ago. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
for Easter
A sequence of words and music devised and introduced by Peter Firth Readers Jill Balcon and Gary Watson with the ST MARGARET 'S
WESTMINSTER SINGERS directed by RICHARD HICKOX Organist IAN WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
A talk from the BBC Sound Archives on the enjoyment of life.
(first broadcast in 1947 on the Home Service)
by D. H. LAWRENCE freely adapted in six episodes by ROY SPENCER starring Sarah Badel Clive Francis
Peter McEnery and Penelope Wilton 6: Continental
(Fulldetails: Tues 3.15 pm)
The Orthodox family of churches claims direct descent from the church of the Apostles, as the One True Church. Best known for its Greek and Russian branches it is now growing in Britain, too. with almost a quarter of a million members here. Who are these ' holy, remote and changeless congregations ' ? Among their members and admirers heard in this report are Metropolitan Anthony. Archbishop
Methodios. the composer John Tavener and the new Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Robert Runcie.
Compiled and presented by Gerald Priestland Producer CHRIS REES
The evening office of Compline
with Robert Robinson
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
