6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
including at 6.45 Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Roy Trevivian
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Harriet Cass
7.3, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week So Far by Russell Davies
visits Cheshire where members of the Hoole and District Allotment and Gardeners Association put their questions to: Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmell
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
(Broadcast Sun 2.5 pm)
NEM, p13: MyGod, I love thee (BBC HB 276); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; Hebrews 3. vv 1-14 (Rsv); God is love: let heaven adore him (BBC HB 7)
The Children of Bynmouth (7)
with Richard Baker
(Broadcast Sat 7.35pm)
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo and Lance Percival endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
(Repeat)
12.55 Weather; programme news (long wave only)
presented by Robin Day
(Broadcast Tues 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Alexander Wilson, Director General, the British Library, Reference Section.
Are You a Timid Mouse?: Richard Vaughan finds out about assertion training. Creative Circles: reporting on the arts and crafts countrywide.
An Unlessoned Girl (3)
Story: The Tin Lid by Mary Willis
by Margaret Dunn
A young French secretary revolutionises an austere publishing house, not only with her skill in the office, but also at the office gas ring.
BBC Wales
from Wakefield Cathedral
Introit: This joyful Easter Tide (Mowbray)
Responses (Bernard Rose)
Psalms: 82, 84, 85 (Attwood, Coward, Bairstow)
Canticles (Walmisley in B minor)
Readings: (Rsv) Exodus 17,vv 116; St John 29, vv 2431
Anthem: Hail, Gladdening Light (Wood)
Hymn: The Lamb's high banquet we await (EH 125)
Organist and master of the choristers Jonathan Bielby
Assistant organist Peter Gould
BBC Manchester
Michael and Tuesday Evenings by C. Huntington
Read by Gavin Campbell
with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast
(long wave only)
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half an hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report.
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.
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Being the ponderous pedaIlings of Tom Vernon from Muswell Hill to the Mediterranean and what befell him in the land of the French.
Part the third (of t): The Napoleonic Road
How our Hero Celebrated the Fall of the Bastille; Reflections on contemporary Liberte, Egatite, Fraternite; A Machine for Teaching French Children to Drive; A Military Spectacle and A Batterie Municipale. Producer joy Hatwood
Look....
Through the port comes the moonshine astray!
It tips the guard's cutlass and silvers this nook;
But 'twill die in the dawning of Billy's last day...
Eric Crofter, who collaborated with E.M. Forster on the libretto of Benjamin Brittens Billy Budd, describes the story by Herman Melville on which it is based and the opera which was made from it; with excerpts from the complete recording, conducted by the composer.
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
investigates and analyses current events and issues. at home and abroad, with reports from Steve Bradshaw, David Henshaw and Eric Robson.
Presenter Peter Oppenheimer
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 om)
Presented by Jacky Gillett
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Death of the Heart (3)
(long wave only)
(long wave only)
(long wave only)
Weather report; forecast (long wave only) followed by an interlude
11.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast
