A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Prieslland
6.55 Weather; programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather; programme news
with Tony Lewis
Football: the start of a hectic Easter programme that could decide many promotion and relegation Issues. A look at the major stories.
Cricket: final reflection on the England tour of the West Indies which ended this week.
Plus the rest of the news at home and abroad including the off-beat and the humorous.
A Radio Sport and OR production
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from NIGEL COOMBS and ERIC TOBlTT taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor IRENE MALLIS Including at
9.0 News and Continental Travel Information
Colin Semper reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Robert Carvel views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps.
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
New Every Morning, page 30; We sing the praise of him (BBC HR 95); Psalm 31; Matthew 27, vv 54-66 (av); When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97)
In Holy Week, Annette Crosbie reads from Catherine de Hueck Doherty's book Poustinia - a solitude, a desert place, where a person enters into the silence of God. Adapted by Anne Hunt.
with Margaret Howard (Extended repeat of yesterday's broadcast)
Presenter Louise Sotting Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. A Financial World Tonight production
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for Just a Minute on this or that.
Devised by IAN MESSlTER Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: programme news
The Rt Hon
Denis Healey , MP
Malcolm Muggeridge Frederic Raphael and Delta O'Cathain from Ditton, Kent
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
' Why doesn't someone introduce penguins to the Arctic? '
Tony Soper , Jim Flegg and Pat Morris chat about your Wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR could BBC Bristol
by EDITH WHARTON (5) BBC Bristol
Algeria dominated the world stage for a brief moment as it successfully negotiated the release of the American hostages in Iran. But what kind of country is it that could overcome the chasm of bitterness and suspicion which divided Washington and Tehran?
Gerald Butt presents a profile of Algeria.
A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN
A man that looks on glass
On it may stay his eye; Or, if he plcaseth through it pass
And then the heaven aspy.
(GEORGE HERBERT)
More than 20 years ago Malcolm Miller was reading modern languages at the University of Durham. For a year he decided to study the medieval mind in the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral. Ever since. he has ' read ' the glass and sculpture for thousands of English-speaking visitors. His scholarlv and, at times, eccentric commentary, has inspired many.
Producer COLIN SEMPER
A personal portrait
long wave only
A series of four programmes looking at community life in contrasting areas of Wales 3: Railway View, Llwynypia
A street in the Rhondda where the old togetherness has given way to a looser sense of identity - and where people look frankly at themselves and their neighbours.
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
The Wonder Show starring
Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese David Hatch Jo Kendall Bill Oddie
Script by GRAEME GARDEN DAVID HATCH , ERIC IDLE and BILL ODDIE. Music by THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY (First broadcast in 1967) 5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Music by INSTANTSUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
The Deep Blue Sea
The third in a season of plays by TERENCE RATTIGAN with
Hester is intense, artistic and loving. Freddie is gregarious, noisy and devil-mav-care. They need each other and yet their needs are so different ... is there any hope for them both to make a life together?
Adapted for radio and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(First broadcast in 1972)
Some Social and Political Aspects of British Popular Songs
3: Showing the Flag in Africa. Six programmes narrated by Andrew Faulds with Thelma Whiteley and John HolHs Singers: CHARLES YOUNG PAT WHITMORE , CHARLES WEST and the CHARLES
YOL'NG SINGERS. Written and produced by CHARLES CHTILTON
Music and words for late evening by Ian Mackenzie BBC Scotland
Basil Boothroyd invites you to share his enjoyment in recalling the words, music and people that have tickled his sense of humour.
In a new series of seven programmes Edward Greenfield makes his choice of recently released classical records. Producer ANDREW MUSSETT (First broadcast on World Service)
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
