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7.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna Hi
Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves: Mary Craig selects readings from
Motherhood and God by MARGARET HEBBLETHWAITE.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
Mary Craig
Unknown:
Margaret Hebblethwaite.

for Palm Sunday from the Wesley Central Hall of the Methodist Church in Portsmouth conducted by THE REV ERIC BLENNERHASSETT
Hymns: Ride on, ride on in majesty; Christ is the world's light; My song is love unknown; Lord thy church on earth is seeking; God is love
Readings (rsv): Isaiah 52, v 13 to 53, v 6;
Matthew 21, w 1-13 BBC Bristol

Steptoe and Son starring Wilfrid Brambell Harry H. Corbett
A Death in the Family written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON
Producer BOBBY JAYE
(First broadcast in 1971)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Brambell
Unknown:
Harry H. Corbett
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

Burning the Arc by MIKE DORRELL
'It's a funny sort of town this,' a welder comments as day breaks over the South Wales industrial community. This play traces 12 hours in the life of one town as it struggles to shake off the 19th century and come to terms with the 20th.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Dorrell
Directed By:
Adrian Mourby

Six programmes in which Kenneth Hudson looks at the way we view history. 3: Working-Class History The history of the Labour Movement, as it's popularly conceived, is the story of the struggle of deprived, oppressed working people against men of property, the capitalists, the employers. But is this view accurate? KENNETH HUDSON visits a museum in Cheshire, the East End of London and an Oxford college in search of an answer. Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Hudson
Unknown:
Kenneth Hudson

Brian Johnston visits Shobdon in Herefordshire. It's a small village but can boast an airfield, a hatchery producing over 400,000 chicks a week, a factory making wood/wool products and a Strawberry Hill Gothic church.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.0 am) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Ken Blakeson presents the final programme in this occasional series.
As the seaside begins to shake off its winter hibernation and looks forward to the summer, we take a look at life on a typical coastal farm in the Fylde. There is a conducted tour of a rock factory on the south coast and the tale of Sooty, the baby seal at Skegness, saved by the town's special Seal Rescue Unit in the North Sea.
Producer EDDIE HEMMINGS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Blakeson
Producer:
Eddie Hemmings

As one of the BBC's most widely experienced foreign correspondents,
Ian McDougall has travelled all over the world. But until this month he had never visited Israel, a place he knew from the Bible, history and current world affairs. Now he reports on his visit - the country, its people and past.
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McDougall
Producer:
Adam Raphael

Seeing the houses of famous writers - the writing desks, the ink, the view from the study window - can be a thrill.
Hunter Davies takes you on a guided tour of Wordsworth's Dove Cottage and Shaw's
Corner - and suggests other places of literary interest.
Producer JULIAN HALE Editor HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hunter Davies
Producer:
Julian Hale
Editor:
Helen Fry

Marked for Life
The scars left by our failures can never be effaced, only transfigured: we are marked for life.
In her final talk for Lent, Dame Maria Boulding , OSB, identifies our scars with the wounds of Christ for we too are marked for resurrection.
Series producer DAVID CRAIG

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Maria Boulding
Producer:
David Craig

Coriolanus
I have come to look upon roles like Coriolanus as theatrical initiations on the grandest scale. A unique master of the art of tragedy takes the actor by the hand and leads him into the circle of a test, which ... will bring him face to face with the physical, mental, and spiritual centres of his 'being'.
Ian Hogg , who played the title role at Stratford ten years ago, presents his personal view of the play and the central character. The BBC Television
Shakespeare production of Coriolanus will be shown next Saturday on BBC2. Producer FRANK WARWICK

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Hogg
Producer:
Frank Warwick

Bob Symes , steam enthusiast and amateur cook, deserts his kitchen and sallies forth in search of leisure occupations. The Call of the Wild
Mountains are easier to scale if a trek pony does the leg work.
Producer KATE FENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Symes
Producer:
Kate Fenton

by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES
4: A Riddle Without an Answer
'Take all the consequences,' laughed Eugene, 'and take away my disappointment. Lizzie Hexam , as I truly respect you, and as I am your friend and a poor devil of a gentleman, I protest I don't even now understand why you hesitate.'
Directed by JANE MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Lizzie Hexam
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Eugene Wrayburn:
Michael Cochrane
Bradley Headstone:
Tom Wilkinson
John Rokesmith:
Michael Kitchen
Bella Wilfer:
Pippa Guard
Lizzie Hexam:
Janet Maw
Jenny Wren:
Angela Pleasence
Mrs Boffin:
Megs Jenkins
Silas Wegg:
Douglas Livingstone
Mr Fledgeby:
Bill Nighy
Mr Riah:
Cyril Shaps
Narrator:
Simon Cadell
Georgiana Podsnap:
Eva Griffiths
Sophronia Lammle:
Maggie McCarthy
Alfred Lammle:
Brett Usher
Mr Venus:
Jon Strickland
Mrs Wilfer:
Avril Elgar
Lavinia:
Moir Leslie
R W Wilfer:
Hugh Dickson
Betty Higden:
Pauline Letts
Johnny Higden:
Daniel Thomason
Doctor:
Anthony Hall
Mortimer Lightwood:
Steve Hodson
Charley Hexam:
Michael Jenner V

by John Stainer
A meditation on the passion of Jesus
ROWLAND SIDWELL (tenor) NEIL HOWLETT (bass) with MEMBERS OF THE
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS and the BBC CHORALE conducted by BARRY ROSE JOHN SCOTT (organ)
Producer DAVID craig

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stainer
Tenor:
Rowland Sidwell
Bass:
Neil Howlett
Conducted By:
Barry Rose
Conducted By:
John Scott

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