News, weather. papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson and Brian Redhead
6.45. Prayer for the Day with POLLY HASLAM
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Wildlife in Spring
After an unusually severe winter not only the countryside but town gardens and parks are alive again with bustling wildlife What effect will the snow and ice have had? How much human. help. with regard to food and water and shelter, is needed by birds - in particular when producing young? And what about foxes and hedgehogs, badgers and squirrels, mice and pondlife? Should we help them. or in some cases. actively discourage them? Mike Everett of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and naturalist writer Tony Soper are in the studio to answer vour questions.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
(Neit edn: Sat 11.35 am)
nem. p 42; All for Jesus
(bp 2); Psalm 84: John 19, vv 12-22 (Rsv); To Christ. the prince of peace <BBC HB 94) long wave only
For Holy Week RICHARD SYMS reads from the homilies of Fr Joseph Donders. me Stranger and the City
followed by travel
Mummy Was Well-Liked by DONOVAN O'MALLEY
The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Jenni Mills
Ten stories of crime and detection in London by ROBERT BARR withand
4: Contract to Kill
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
followed by travel
with Sue MacGregor Under My Skin:
RON ALLDRIDGE investigates the art of the tattooist. and meets some willing victims.
Food on the Cheap: GAIL DUFF on how to eat well at low cost...
5: Sausages and Offal The Upas Tree byEVAHANAGAN abridged in nine parts by MONICA GREY Read by GEORGINE ANDERSON (Music: Rimsky-
Korsakov's Quintet in B flat)
by H. G. WELLS (1)
The first of four programmes this week. Charlotte Mitchell's thoughts turn to childhood.
Producer ANNE HOWILLS
'You daren't go begging of them to 'ire you; they allus asked you; you didn't ask them.'
The farm labourers in the East Riding of Yorkshire were, until about 40 years ago, hired by the farmers in the market place. Within a strictly maintained hierarchy, you might start as Wag Lad but you aspired to become a Waggoner, with responsibility for the other lads and the horses. Jack Danby , with the help of some Waggoners, recalls the simple but often rewarding life on the farm before the advent of labour-saving machinery.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Last Resort (10)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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
Chairman Robert Robinson MIDLANDS AND EAST
ANGLIA
1: Richard Nelson
(transport manager)
Flt-Lt Patrick Keating (RAF Officer) Alan Fisher
(British Telecom engineer)
Andrew Cobley
(computer programmer) Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer Richard EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the cp's surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit-a series
In 26 parts
Narrator
David Attenborough
10: A Warbler Would a Wooing Go ...
As a prelude to mating" a male song bird does not pursue a female. Instead. he sits and sings and the female comes of her own accord. Cliff Catchpole of Bedford College, London; John Krebs of Oxford University: and Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York. discuss which is the more important function of bird song- attracting females or repelling males?
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Frank Delaney talks to people of differing family circumstances about the relevance of family life in the 80s.
Hannah Wright reviews cookery books and recipes available on tape.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA IIESHEL
includes reviews of In the Seventh Circle,
Charles Lewsen 's play at the Half Moon Theatre about Robert Fitzroy , Captain of HMS The
Beagle; and Quest for Fire. a new award-winning science fantasy film with dialogue devised by Anthony Burgess.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer
CATHERINE WEARING
with Alexander MacLeod
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