Farming, food and countryside news, market trends; weather.
A meditation for the beginning ofanewday.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PAKRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Spring Gardening
This is the busiest time of the gardener's year, when hard work yields results.
Alan Titchmarsh is in the Tuesday Call studio with advice and ideas. Jill Burridge is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman s Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI
2: We Regret to Announce
In the second Holy Week talk Robert Foxcroft continues the disciple's journey by way of the Cross to the Kingdom of God.
NEM, p 79; Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (BBC HB 90); Surely he has born our grief (Handel); Mark 14, w 43-53, 66-72; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81) Stereo
A comedy by Paul Wolfson
Young, ambitious Dr Dawson is glad to play golf with the chairman of the Hospital Appointments Board; but when they're caught in a violent thunderstorm the effect is amazing and electrifying.
(Stereo)
The discovery of thousands of bones in Derbyshire cairns, the truth or fiction of animals
'crying', the thin line between life and death if eating poisonous plants and catching a late March hare.
Derek Jones investigates and Ray Goodwin poses another intriguing sound competition. Producer CAROL JEFFERSON DAVIES BBC Bristol
with Paul Heiney
First Round: Home Counties Chairman Robert Robinson Dr Joseph Angel (physician) Ian Collinson (bank official) Roy Searle (retired BA pilot) and James Caruth (civil servant)
The programme includes Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by LAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Presented by John Harrison
by the Labour Party
Today's story: King Jolly and the Robot
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Adopting Andrew: 12-year-old Andrew wants a family to call his own. JENNY CUFFE tells why and how an adoption agency is about to publicise his need for new parents.
The Private World of Georgette Heyer (10)
Home Truths for Tony by PATRICK DOCKERY
Twenty-year-old Tony is so good-natured he expects everyone else to be the same. When he begins to build an extension for the Purcells he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless cruelty. Will his experiences embitter him against the world or will he manage to retain his warmth and honesty?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Dilys Powell , one of the most respected figures in the British film industry, talks to
David Peet about her life. She recalls the world of Fleet Street in the 1920s and reflects upon her 45 years as film critic for The Sunday Times.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)
A Gun for Sale (2)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
continued on VHF/FM 5.5O-S.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
2: Re-deployment
Stereo
David Wheeler tells the story of Eduard Schulte , wartime hero.
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer JULIAN BROWN
The last of five documentary reports by Bernard Jackson The Polish Pope
'He has his face on the television screens of the world-but his feet firmly planted in the Middle Ages!'
One assessment of Pope John Paul II. Others see this
Pope - the first non-Italian pontiff for 400 years - as an imaginative leader with a spiritual message he is determined to bring to a worldwide audience.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Ian MacRaeProducer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]
8.30 pm-10.0
The seventh of eight programmes
Jamaica: Pleasure and Pain Continuing his Caribbean journey, novelist Joseph Hone travels over the Blue
Mountains to a Victorian guest-house in Port Antonio before taking an old banana raft down the Rio Grande.
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Magic Toyshop (2)
presented by Stephen Jessel
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
From Coping to Confidence Six programmes about students with learning difficulties now moving on from special schools to FE colleges. MAUREEN GALVIN provides a context for new teaching materials about to be introduced and interviews teachers, parents and the students themselves. 1: Starting College Producer JOE REID
followed by an interlude
