with Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON preceded by There is a green hill far away
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

5: 'Fighting Chingers is bad enough, but on this planet they have the Venians on their side: mouldy newts with maybe just enough IQ to hold a gun and pull the trigger.'

Harry Soan continues his reflections on his life since he gave up farming 18 years ago.
Producer jane MARSHALL
BBC Birmingham

On this solemn day in the Christian Year a special service of Choral Matins and Litany comes direct from York Minster Readings: Psalm 22;
Genesis 22, vv 1-18 (rsv); Lamentations of Jeremia
(Bairstow); John 18 (rsv); Benedictus (Moore); Litany (Loosemore) Assistant organist
JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY
Organist and Master of the Choristers
PHILIP MOORE
BBC Manchester

The last in a series of talks for Holy Week 5: Sheffield
Speaker The Rev Dr John Vincent BBC Manchester

The Rt Hon
Denis Healey , mp and Mrs Edna Healey present a selection of their favourite poetry and prose with Norman Rodway
It surprises many people to know how well Yeats wrote about politics and how interested he was in them. He understood politicians very well because he realised that in many ways they are like poets.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol

An Egg's Eye View
How do chicks get out of eggs, how do snakes get into them, how do rats carry them and how does the egg cope?
Barry Paine presents a few ideas on some eggcellent strategies.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

A pilgrimage and meditation for Good Friday Presented by Bernard Jackson
A BBC World Service production

Presenter Brian Widlake

A portrait of the composer who embodied in his music the sensuousness and proud passion of the Spanish character, and of the humble, ascetic little man once described by Stravinsky as 'the most unpitying religious nature I have ever known'.
Written and presented by Trader Faulkner with Paco Pena as Falla. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

by CHARLES DICKENS (4)

Seven variations on the theme of love, written and presented by P. J. Kavanagh 3: Love Betrayed
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Three programmes in which Molly Price-Owen , aided and abetted by literary examples, discovers how forensic science can bring a criminal to book. 3: Index Linked
The tales that are told when the finger points to the criminal.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder
Sheer Melodrama (1)

with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough

with CLIVE ROSLIN

Heathrow is the busiest international airport in the world. This year, 70 airlines will fly 27; million passengers in and out of Heathrow's three terminals. Many will travel on the bigger wide-bodied jets and as aircraft continue to grow, the airport must also continue to expand.
Tonight Clive Jacobs and the Going Places team report on Heathrow's new Terminal 4.
Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer JAN TAYLOR
(Repeated: Sat 10.30 am)

A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.

The Rt Hon
David Owen , MP The Rt Hon
Gwyneth Dunwoody , mp Dr Richard Clutterbuck , writer and lecturer on political violence and Max Hastings author and journalist at Teignmouth, Devon Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

Special prosecutor appointed to look into financial background of Ed Meese, the president's choice as next attorney general. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Harewood at the Opera Watching rehearsals build up towards something that is a genuine fulfilment of how one would now see the company's intentions is an intense satisfaction.
Lord Harewood has been involved for nearly 30 years with the operatic lifeblood of this country, first at the Royal Opera House and as managing director of the English
National Opera-a post he will relinquish in 1985. In conversation with Rodney Milnes , he talks about his policy of staging opera; and the projected tour of the ENO.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

3: A Happy Family

Has the Roman Catholic Church gone soft on sin? When Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, was in the Vatican for the recent synod for penance and reconciliation, she found that hell and brimstone have gone out of fashion. In conversation with bishops and cardinals from all over the world, she looks for the reasons behind changing attitudes. Producer FRANCES GUMLEY

A Meditation for Good Friday
Dr Margaret Bowker on the desolation of the time between Christ's crucifixion and his resurrection.