6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45. Prayer for the Day THE REV PETER CAVANAGH
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN perkins
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Peter Purves and Gyn Freeman report on baconflitching, mayor-making, chair-bodging, besom-binding, copper-smithing, camellia-growing, steam-upping, coal-carrying, six-shooting, bottle-kicking. rabbit-breeding. herb-sniffing. snuntaking. hare-pie-scrambling -Britain
What's just been, what s coming soon, and what s happening ... As it Happens.
Producers PETER EVERETT and KAY jamieson BBC Manchester
nem, p 79; Give to our God immortal praise
(BBCHB6); Canticle pt 2; Deuteronomy 8, v
5-14, 17-18 0 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC JIB 209) long wave only
Confirmation
Written and read by Dillwyn Owen
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
followed by travel
Let Neil Landor sort out your queries.
Producer PETER hoare
Including JILL TODD with the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills
Chairman Robert Robinson 9- NORTH OF ENGLAND Qnenlin Mitchell (schoolmaster)
Leo Cullinan
(civil servant) John Smith
(business methods analyst)
Fr David Drake-Brockman (priest)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by jotin P. wynn Questions set by UN GILLIES
Producer richarb eois tBroatlcast Tues 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MaeGregor , including Taking the Plunge.- PETER spinks reports on a scheme to help asthmatic children overcome their breathing problems by swimming.
Catch-a-Craft (6): sally TARRANT-WILLIS Suggests simple carving. The Intruder (7)
Fields of the Blessed by ANDREW TYRRELL and Seventeen-year-old Lily has never come to terms with her father's death by drowning while he was trying to save her life.
She leads an isolated life with her mother in postwar London. A Polish ex-soldier friend of her father comes to stay and he and Lily develop a close friendship, which grows into a complex emotional relationship.
Directed by cherry cookson
as enjoyed by American-born Paul Gambaccini
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by ericsewry abridged in seven episodes by SOFKA SKIPWITH
Read by Sean Arnold (1) Eric Newby was working for a West End fashion house when he suddenly decided he must get out and live. lie cabled a friend asking him to join him on an expedition to
Nuristan - and that's how their adventures began. Producer
CIIRISTOPIIER VENNING
Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with David Jacobs
Producer carole STONE BBC Bristol
with Norman Tozer
(Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
Written by HELEN LEADBEATF. R
(Repeated: Fn 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Laurie Lee puts down his pen to consider the view from his home in the Cotswolds.
Producer John Harrison BBC Bristol (Repeat)
Imagined scenes from a documentary life by John Wilders and John Powell with music directed by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson
Martin Jarvis plays William Shakespeare
"His mind and heart went together: and what he thought he uttered..." (John Heminge and Henry Condell, First Folio, 1623)
with a Cry of Players:
Douglas Blackwell as James Burbage, Michael Williams as Richard Burbage, his son, John Hollis as Richard Tarleton and Hugh Dickson, Steve Hodson and Crawford Logan with David March as John Shakespeare, William's father, David Brierley as Gilbert, his younger brother, Frances Jeater as Anne, his wife, Rosalind Adams as Susanna, his daughter and J. Lidstone as William, the boy, Leonard Fenton as John Bretchgirdle, the minister, Timothy Bateson as Thomas Jenkins, the schoolmaster, John Rye as Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton and Mary Wimbush as Queen Elizabeth I.
Music played and sung by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson with their Noyse of Musitians and Evelyn Tubb (soprano) John Potter (tenor) Graham Jeffery (treble)
(Repeated on 2 May)
John Morgan reporting
Psychology by KATIIERINE MANSFIELD Read by Eileen Atkins long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only foJlowcd by an interlude
