with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: 'Bill snapped his snappiest salute. In fact he snapped just about the snappiest salute possible since there aren't that many people with two right arms.'
An extraordinary 55 minutes with extra ordinary people. Carl Davis interviews this week's birthday guest Yehudi Menuhin
Producer pippa BURSTON
A series of talks for Holy Week
3: Bristol Speaker
Canon David Issitt BBC Bristol
(The next talk is on Thursday at 11.45 am)
Jesus is Crucified NEM, p 30; When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97); God so loved the world (Crucifixion); Mark 15, w 1-20; 0 sacred head (BBC HB 86)
Norman Thelwell turns his back for a moment on Penelope and her ponies to take in the view from his studio window in Hampshire.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Pattie Coldwell Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
If you have any comments on today's programme, phone [number removed]after
11.0 am
A new thriller serial in six episodes by EDWARD BOYD
2: Nurse Nicolson lies dead in the mortuary. Suspicion lies on Peter Caiman. And someone is lying through their teeth.
Dunsmore GREGOR FISHER
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Joshua Rifkin , specialist of baroque and Renaissance music and most famous performer of Scott Joplin 's piano rags. A Loving Mistress (5)
Macker's Riots by RICHARD HILL and ALAN MCDONALD
Macker's been charged with assaulting a police officer with a dangerous and deadly weapon: a can of stolen beans. But what does his solicitor want to hear about -
Thomas McAnearney , known as Macker, his part in the Toxteth riots? Or the business about the racing bike and the parrot and the piano accordion?
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester
Someone who did just that at a Billy Graham rally some years ago, now tells of how it felt and the affect it had on them then ...and now.
Producer CHRIS REES
The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder
The Stealer Of Marble (1)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with HARRIET CASS including
Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden in the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week: [see below]
BBC Birmingham
Does an upper-class education help you get the job? Is there money in it? If you're caught, does it matter?
Patrick Hannan looks at the espionage scene with the help of Chapman Pincher.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Eight programmes in which Tom Vernon rides his bicycle from Exeter to Edinburgh.
VI: The City of Ghosts and Dragons: York to Durham Producer JENNY DE YOUNG
Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
'It is painful to admit our own fears, sense of guilt and shame, inadequacy and low self-esteem. It is the brave one who will admit these, the strong one who will fight his own negativity and the trusting and faithful one who will see the light at the end of the tunnel'
World famous Swiss psychiatrist, Dr Elisabeth Kubler Ross , talks about her work with the terminally ill.
Producer DAVID PEET BBC Wales
Another in a very occasional series of rare and unlikely treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
Part 47: Highlights of the State Visit of His Majesty King George IV to Edinburgh.
First transmitted over 160 years ago, on 15 August 1822, this early Outside Broadcast represents perhaps the peak of Georgian wireless achievement. with the voices of MR JOHN BUICK
MISS GWYNETH GUTHRIE
MR MICHAEL MACKENZIE
MR SANDY NEILSON
MR JOHN SHEDDEN and MR ROBERT TROTTER Contrived by MISS ALISON MCLEAY and the late SIR WALTER SCOTT Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
with Paul Allen
Producer RICHARD DUNN
Three stories by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged for radio by ENYD WILLIAMS Read by Denys Hawthorne 1: Sunday Drinks
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
11.0 Headlines long wave only from 11.0
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From Sheffield to Chicago It's more than 80 years since Joseph Thornton opened his first sweet shop in Sheffield. Today there are over 150 Thornton's shops in Britain, but this is still a business in the traditional mould. Three generations of Thornton's sit on the board, they have avoided take overs, but can still beat the High Street giants at their own game. We go inside the factory and the shops to get a flavour of this family firm.
Producer ANNE BROWN
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