with Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather: travel: programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather; travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis introduces this Easter edition of radio's sports magazine programme.
Among the featured items this morning is a full report from Augusta, where the United States
Masters Tournament is at the halfway stage. JOHN FENTON is your man at the first of this year's major golfing events. At home, there's a full Football League programme today, as the season approaches its climax: also traditional Easter events, such as THE BARBARIANS rugby team tour of South Wales; and no less than eight-horse race meetings. Producer DAVE GORDON Editor DEREK MITCHELL
Introduced by Chris Serle , with help from Susan Marling.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD including News at 9.0
with Clifford Longley
Producer GAVIN Campbell
with Robert Carvel
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
NEM. p 30; Go to dark Gethsemane (BP 22);
Psalm 31; John 19, vv
31-42 (RSV); We sing the praise of him (BBC HB 95)
Richard Syms gives the last of six readings from the homilies of FR JOSEPH DONDERS
The stranger's Call to Life
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFF.
Presenter Louise Botting The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings and finance.
A Financial World Tonight production
The antidote to panel games
Can Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor win with a cross-court volley to silly mid-on or have Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer got them snookered behind the goal' Referee
Humphrey Lyttelton With MATTHEW SCOTT at the piano Producer
PAUL MAVHEWARCHER
12.55 Weather; programme news
Lord Soper, Glenda Jackson, Robin Ray and Detta O'Cathain, from Hatch End, Middlesex
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
by Matthew Solon
The leading lady in a repertory theatre plans a Sunday visit for all the company, but only one young man turns up.
(Repeated: Turs 11.3 am)
(Penelope Keith is in 'Hobson's Choice' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket,London)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Topics suggested by the listener.
A history in 26 parts 13: Fishermen
Small-craft fishing has probably changed less over the centuries than almost any other kind of seafaring. Its centre is timeless: wet. cold. and the heavy weight of the catch.
Readers DAVID ASHFORD, LEONARD MACUIRE.
DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY NEWLANDS. RONALD HERDMAN . TIMOTHY BENTINCK , KATHLEEN HELME. BILL MONKS .JOE DUNLOP and MICHAEL COLDIE
Special sound DICK MILLS ,BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Consultant
KEITH MATTHEWS. Chairman.
Maritime History Group. Memorial University of St John's. Newfoundland Presenter Basil Greenhill Director. National Maritime Museum. Greenwich
Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
After seven and a half years as the BBC's
Correspondent in Peking and Moscow. Philip
Short contrasts life in China and the Soviet Union - and its likely development during the 1980s after Mao and Brezhnev - in a series of five talks. based on his forthcoming book. 2: Hitches and Commissars
Love and fear among the rural poor.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address : BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed]
The Road to Canterbury In the first of four programmes focusing on the visit of Pope John Paul II to England. Scotland and Wales.
Brian Redhead asks why the Pope is coming here and, in particular, why he is going as pilgrim to Canterbury, the centre of faith for the Anglican community.
A ' really special comedy show with Denise Coffey Alison Steadman Emma Thompson and Nicholas le Prevost
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather, travel; programme news
including Sports Round-Up
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
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 ANDREWMUSSETT
John Hurt in Appleby's End by MICHAEL INNES dramatised by MICHAEL BAKEWEI. L with John Le Mesurier Christopher Benjamin Joyce Redman and Pippa Guard
Appleby of the Yard is used to dealing with serious crimes, but from the moment he steps on the train to Snarl to investigate a series of bizarre happenings, he's plunged into a world where jokes play too large a part.
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Seven travellers' tales 5 Gwei-los. Hongs and Bananas
In 15 years' time, under the terms of a 99-year lease, Hong Kong is legally bound to return most of its land to China. yet today, the city is booming and building for a Ions-term future.
Bernard Jackson visits Hong Kong to discover why the community is so confident in the face of such uncertainty and goes to China to see how the country is using Hong Kong to forge even stronger links with the capitalist world.
Producer BRIAN COOK
with The Rev Elwyn Jones BBC Wales
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
