Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
with Gerald Prlestland
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer anthony parkin BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather; travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Introduced by Tony Lewis
Final preparations are under way for tomorrow's London Marathon, a major success when it was held for the first time last year; in the north of England. The Embassy
World Professional Snooker Championship is at the midway stage; and in the midlands, the Indian cricketers start their first county match against WARWICKSHIRE.
Producer DAVE GORDON Editor DEREK MITCHELL
8.57 Weather: travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with SUSAN MARLING and IAN LYON.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Harold Evans takes a look at the weekly magazines. Producer GAVIN CAMPBELL
Matthew Coady views the past week.
Producer ELLIE UPDALI
NEM, p 42; Christ is alive! (BP 8); Psalm 122; Isaiah 9, vv 2-7 (RSV); God of grace (BBC hb 391)
Presenter Louise Botting A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
The antidote to panel games direct from the Wembley Pool
The Underwater
Badminton Horse Trials featuring Graeme Garden riding Barry Cryer by Tim Brooke-Taylor out of Willie Rushton Equestrian master
Humphrey Lyttelton Astride the piano COLIN SELL Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARKLE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Sir Henry Plumb John Arlott
Ann Mallalleu and Jack Higgins
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Saving Grace by ELLEN FOX with Sheila Steafel as Rose and Lesley Manville as Grace
It is evening. The old woman and the young girl meet across the palmist's table. A strange friendship begins. Rose remembers her past and Grace dreams of her future. The outcome is devastating for both of them.
Directed by LIANE aukin
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
Geoff Watts reports
Your wildlife questions answered.
A history in 20 parts 17: The Small Port Oh, very busy, you know, you'd see perhaps brigs, schooners, little steamers and umpteen barges, ketches, all rigs. you know.'
Readers michael goldie KATHLEEN HELME ,
CAROLE BOYD , RONALD BADDILEY , DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY HALL , JOE DUNLOP , BILL MONKS, JoHN HOLLIS , TIMOTHY BENTINCK Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonlc Workshop. Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhill , Director, National Maritime
Museum. Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
A You and Yours special Thousands of schoolchildren are preparIng for the most mportant examinations of their lives. The right preparation can mean the difference between pass or failure, or between the crucial grades that clinch a college place. Margaret Percy seeks guidance from teachers and examiners on how you can prepare your child for this most taxing of trials. Producer CHERYL ARMITAGE
A magazine of interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter John Mills
Editor MARLENE PEASI
I think I do irritate people sometimes by being so determined to pretend that there isn't anything wrong with me, but we all have our own way of coping with life and that, I suppose, Is mine.'
Sue MacGregor's first guest in this series of eight is the writer Marie Joseph , who suffers from arthritis.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
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. Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer ANDREW mussett (Repeated: Wed 11.3 am)
Margaret Clitherow by WILLIAM KEENAN with Elizabeth Proud as Margaret
' Margaret Clitherow , you have been brought from the Castle of York on this the 14th day of March in the year of Grace 1586 and indicted of felony, for that you have harboured Jesuit priests, traitors to the Queen's Majesty and that you have had Mass said ... You shall be taken to the lowest part of the prison, stripped naked, laid down, and as much weight laid upon you as you are able to bear, and so to continue three days without meat or drink except a little barley bread and puddle water, and the third day be pressed to death.'
Henry May. Stephen thorne
Banquet music by THE YORK WAITS
1 Dies irae ' sung by CLIFTON CATHEDRAL CHOIR Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLlN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
9.58 Weather
Each year, school debating societies throughout the country compete for The Observer Mace. The final this year was held last night at Grey Coat Hospital in London, in the presence of the patron of the Schools Debating Association, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
Kingston Grammar School will propose the motion: 'In the opinion of this House, international sport is inseparable from foreign policy.'
Opposed by Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
Winchester College will propose the motion: 'This House applauds local authorities who declare themselves nuclear-free zones.'
Opposed by Swanshurst School, Birmingham
Chairman of the judges The Rt Hon Leon Brittan, MP
Including highlights from the debates, adjudication and the patron's summing up.
(Repeated: Thurs 11.30 am)
(Schools that would like further information about the competition should send an sae to: [address removed])
led by The Rev Raymond Short
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
