News, weather, papers and sport
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45. Prayer for the Day CANON JOHN GUNSTONE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7 30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Part 3
The ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people, including Sue
Lawley's birthday guest and The Week So Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Bo", Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 13; This joyful
Eastertide (BBC HB 115); Psalm 103, vv 1-13;
Colossians 1, vv 3-14
(RSV); All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC HB 118): long wave only Book, New Every
Morning, £1.75 hardback and £1.25 paperback, from bookshops
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by Jonathan Cecil
' Confidence seemed to fill Freddie as he sat there wolfing buttered toast.
He had finished the Lady of Shatott that morning and was stuffed to the tonsils with good material. It was only a question of time, he felt, before some chance remark would uncork him and give him the cue to do his stutf. Producer MITCH RAPER
Presenter Jenni Mills
by JOHN LE CARRÉ adapted for radio in five parts by RENÉ BASILICO
4: A Carne schoolboy has been killed in a cycling, accident - a tragedy that adds poignancy to an already complex murder investigation.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: The
Rt Rev William Westwood , Bishop of Edmonton. Paris Report: from HÉLÈNE VERET.
Reading Your Letters.
An Upholsterer's Life for Me! NATALIE WHEEH watches Master
Upholsterers judging apprentices competing for their new Award Scheme - and learns there's more to the craft than meets the eye. Up the Crossing
3: The Sunday School Treat
Book, Up the Crossing, £6.50, from bookshops
Silvertrain Day by DAVE SHEASBY
Jez has been working on the Silvertrain for 35 years. He is contented with his life, and happy at his work. Suddenly all this changes ...
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester
David Willey reports from southern Italy's largest city, which has survived countless disasters and been run successively by Greeks, Romans,
Normans, Spaniards. French and finally, Italians.
from Worcester Cathedral Introit:Surgens Jesus
(Peter Phillips)
Versicles and Responses (Donald Hunt)
Psalm 118 (Cooper; Hanforth)
Lessons: Isaiah 52, vv 1-10; I Peter 2, vv 1-10 Canticles: St Paul's Service (Herbert Howells)
Anthem: 'Tis the day of Resurrection (Charles Wood)
Master of the choristers DONALD HUNT
Organist PAUL TREPTE
BBC Birmingham
Talking to Animals
4: The Farm in the Town
Presenters
Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the 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 ttace Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
Internationally acclaimed Welsh contralto
Helen Watts reflects on her long and successful career in conversation with Teleri Bevan.
Producer MARK OWEN BBC Wales
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
This week a report by Peter Oppenheimer.
Producer STUART SIMON Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
Chris Powling presents a review of J. G. Farrell 's last unfinished novel The Hill Station; and looks at new films on show in New York.
Producer ANNE WINDER
Voices and opinions from around the world
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN (7)
The People of the Sea (3) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
with Edward Cole
A sequence of music for late-night listening
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
