News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast lona wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day
6.55.7.55 Weather forecast 70. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.25' 8:25' Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN Holland
A look ahead with Dilly Barlow
goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather: travel
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personaUties in this week's news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
(Revised rpt of Sat 12.2 pm)
NtM, p 38: Christ, whose glorv fills the skies (BBC HB 137); 'Psalm 20; Acts
14. vv 8-26 (nsv); 0 Jesu. King most wonderful ibp 68)
Ion wave only
Prayer book, New Every Morning, £2.00 from booksellers
Beware of Spring by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits the city of Llchficld in Staffordshire. Its cathedral with three spires known as ' The Ladies of the Vale ' is its most prominent building: the great
Dr Samuel Johnson its most famous son.
Producer anthony Smith BBC Bristol
with Bob Symes
Take handfuls of nettles, clover, dandelions, strawberries and a sprig of Christmas tree... This week, BOB SYMES, ad hoc cook extraordinaire, raids the hedgerows to create a summer soup.
Presenter Bill Breckon News. views and advice for consumers...
Editor JOHN GETGOOD
by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted in six episodes by Richard Usborne
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor including during Uie week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today Daytime Disco: the increasing preoccupation with keeping fit has led to a boom in afternoon discos for housewives.
RON ALI. I1RIDCE puts on his dancing shoes.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (6)
To mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC and the 50th anniversary of its
External Services in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh direct from St Paul's Cathedral.
London Fanfare for Heroes (Bliss)
Hymn: All people that on earth (English Hymnal 365)
Introit: In the deserts of the heart (Auden, Rubbra)
Bidding prayer: The Dean, the Very Rev Alan Webster
Lord's Prayer
Reading (RSV) John 1. vv 1-4 read by Richard Baker (BBC Television)
Reading: Jeremiah 1, vv 4-10 read by Mike Read (BBC Radio 1)
Reading: Hebrews 4. vv 12-16 read by Pamela Creighton (BBC World Service)
Hymn: Thanks be (op 82)
Reading: Revelation 3, vv 8-14 read by George Howard, Chairman of the BBC
Anthem: Easter (Herbert. Berkeley)
Prayers led by The Rev Dr Colin Morris
Montage of sound images reflecting six decades of broadcasting to and from Britain, introduced by Canon Colin Semper
Hymn: Be thou my vision (eh 75)
Reading: The Rock (T.S. Eliot ) read by John Wing (BBC World Service)
Venus from the suite 'The Planets' (Holst)
Address: The Archbishop of Canterbury
The choir sings words based on the BBC's motto
Prayers led by Pauline Webb
Hymn: As the great Creator's hand (Causley)
Reading: Philippians 4. vv 8-9 read by Sir Ian Trethowan, Director-General of the BBC
Peace of the Faiths
Hindu peace by MATHMOOR KRISHNAMUBTI
Buddhist peace by THE VEN OR H. SADDHATISSA
Sikh peace by JUJHAR SINGH PLAHA
Muslim peace by IMAM G. W. A. SULAIMAN
Jewish peace by RABBI HUGO GRYN
Blessing the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
National Anthem (arr Willcocks)
'Enigma Variations' (Elgar)
Commentator Frank Gillard
BBC SINGERS, conductor Simon Joly
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA with members of the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, and the BBC's Northern, Welsh and Scottish SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS, leader john BRADBURY, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Cathedral organist and Master of the Music CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY
Master of St Paul's Choir BARRY ROSE
Sound by PHIL OLDER
Producer CHRIS RUES
Get up to your ears in the English Channel with Ian Willox and underwater explosives expert Artie Shaw as they plunge into the depths of Plymouth Sound in this special digital recording. With tales of sunken treasure, hungry fish, submarine mishaps, things with long black tentacles - and a demonstration of Artie Shaw's explosive techniques...
A BBC Transcription Service production
Voices In the Garden by DIRK BOGARDE abridged in 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by JOHN RYE (4) Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
(Broadcast Sut 12.27 pm,
(Repealed. Tucs 1.40 pm)
(Rcriscd repeat of 9.5 ami
by Brian Moore, dramatised by Derek Mahon
with Liza Ross as Mary
Mary is a Canadian living in New York. She has gone there to marry a young English playwright, leaving old attachments behind her. In one day and one evening, at the hairdresser, in the street and at home, she finds the past and present mingling awkwardly in her mind. She describes her anxiety and confusion - the familiar companions of her life.
(Repeated, Sun 2.30 pm)
Maurice Sendak 's sets for this year's Glyndebournc production of Prokofiev's opera The Love of Three Oranges have been hailed as breathtakingly original. He discusses with Paul Vaughan his approach to stage designing, the Influences at work In his techniques and about his children's books, including the much-praised trilogy
Where the Wild Things
Are. In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There. Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART (Revised repeat)
Stephen Milligan reporting
Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from leading laboratories.
Mother and Son (6) lona tcat'e onlu
long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
