6.55 Weather: travel programme news
7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna HI Ghar Samajhiye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God
THE REV MELVYN MATTHEWS with a meditation for the eighth Sunday before
Easter: Mark 2, vv 1-12 BBC Bristol
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news Presenter
Rosemary Hartill
Producer DAVID COOMES
RICHARD WHITMORE talks about St Elizabeth's
School and Home, which provides care and education to children With severe forms of epilepsy.
Donations, by cheque or PO, to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather; travel: programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
from the Croydon Citadel Corps of the Salvation Army. with the BAND of THE SONGSTER BRIGADE and SINGING COMPANY bandmaster
MAJOR LESLIE CONDON
Service conducted by CAPT DALZIEL ANDMRS PETER DALZIEL Hymns: (SALVATION ARMY SONG BOOK): Stand up and bless the Lord (14); Come let us join our cheerful songs (40); My life must be Christ's broken bread (462); Thou Christ of burning, cleansing flame (119): Tell all the people (Howard Davies )
Reading: Mark 8, vv 27-38 (AV)
Organist MAJOR JOY BUTTON
Omnibus edition
Directed by PETER WINDOWS Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer who meets the poet
Stephen Spender and his wife Natasha; and presents some highlights from Woman's Hour.
adapted in seven episodes by DAVID WADE from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by ROALD DAHL (1)
For years Willy Wonka 's wonderful chocolate factory has intrigued the world. Then one day a competition is announced! Five golden tickets will allow five lucky children to see and sample the wares of the factory Can Charlie Bucket , who only gets one bar of chocolate a year, possibly win one of the coveted golden tickets?
Music composed by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester
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Christopher Driver visits India where, with the help of local chefs and an ear to the economy of the teeming, infinitely tolerant streets, he reports on a cuisine that has more facets than the Kohtnoor diamond.
Producer joy hatwood
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
(Details: Wed 10.2 am)
Sand Between Your Toes by PAUL BOND
If an accident should shunt you from the carriageway onto Life's hard-shoulder /it may not be easy to get back even Into the slow lane.
Some special cases need the Welfare State to tow them away to places like Croxton Park
Rehabilitation Unit. It is there that Len. Kevin and Toby meet ...
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
An occasional series.
Ludovic Kennedy talks to Sean Day-Lewis, who was the subject of the poem
'Walking Away' by his father Cecil Day-Lewis.
Reader Daniel Day-Lewis
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss your questions with Hugh Scully
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
(Details. Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
followed by travel: programme news long wave only
(Details: Mon 11.3 am) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news long wave only
With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Kipling was a knowing young man and what he did not know at first hand he could invent to a life-like marvel from a nod, a hint or an overheard word.
In the third of four programmes. Marghanita Laski explores the world of 19th-century India which is brought to life in the writings of Rudyard Kipling. 3: The Interface
Readers John SAMSON DENYS HAWTHORNE , NIGEL ANTHONY , JOHN ROWE
GARARD GREEN, SHIREEN SHAH, STEVE HODSON, SURENDRA KOCHAR
Producer HELEN FRY
Last of six programmes Improbability
Science deals in probabilities. Nothing is certain, but some things are highly unlikely. It would take a long time for monkeys walking over typewriters to produce a Shakespeare sonnet - but it would happen eventually.
This week David Jones reveals the closest known parallel to those monkey-bards.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
7.0 Travel; programme news
6: The Case of the Missing Link
(Details: Wed 12.27 pm)
Frank Delaney presents the magazine programme for browsers and bookworms.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)
NORTHERN SINFONIA OF ENGLAND leader BARRY WILDE conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Dvorak Czech Suite In D
Brahms Serenade No 2, In A major
(Given in the Sinfonia
Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne) BBC Manchester
by JOHN BUCHAN (3)
(Details: Friday 3.2 pm)
9.58 Weather
Can insanity be measured? The diagnosis of schizophrenia, the mental illness that most closely resembles the stereotype of insanity, is beset by two major difficulties. We do not know what causes the Illness, and there Is still uncertainty over the physical symptoms that characterise it.
Geoff Watts examines the reliability of present techniques used for assessing schizophrenics. and considers recent brain research which may make possible more exact methods of detecting the Illness. Contributions from PROFESSOR JOHN WING
PROFESSOR ROBERT KENDALL
PROFESSOR ROBERT BLUGLASS. PROFESSOR JOHN COOPER. DR TIM CROW and DR GARETH JONES
Producer JULIAN BROWN
The late-evening office of Compline sung by a section of the BBC SINGERS
Presenter James Cox
Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude