Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
Preceded by the Hymn for Good Friday
There is a green hill far away
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colville
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

A second series of six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 1: Looking Black
'Maar, Ik ben een Engelsman,' I shouted above the clamour of a lynching mob, 'and I am not a pnest, but an allergologist....'

from the Temple Church, London
Precentor
PREBENDARY W D. KENNEDY BELL Reader of the Temple
Celebrant CANON JOSEPH ROBINSON Master of the Temple
Litany: Tallis (five-part) ! Epistle (AV): Hebrews 10, ] w 1-25 ; Gradual: My song is love ; unknown (Patrick Hadley ) Gospel (av): John 19, w 1-37 Creed: Darke in F
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (A&MR 108)
Organist and Director of the Choir JOHN BIRCH
Assistant organist LAN LE GRICE

5: All Change
In the last Holy Week talk, Robert Foxcroft concludes the disciple's journey by way of the Cross to the Kingdom of God.

A profile of the life of Ray Howard-Jones
Stereo

What's Up Doc?
Armed only with carrots, Barry Paine treads carefully through the world of cotton-tails and Flemish giants on the trail of the Easter Bunny.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBCBristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

The last of six programmes in which Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at a hundred years of British comic song-writing.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

Presented by Brian Widlake

King Jolly's Birthday

Now we are going up to Jerusalem.
With these words St Mark s
Gospel records the prophecy of Jesus that in Jerusalem he would die and rise again.
Rosemary Hartill , the BBC Religious Affairs
Correspondent, presents a radio portrait of the sights and sounds of Holy Week in Jerusalem. Returning to the city where Jesus faced the great crisis and climax of his ministry, she describes and reflects upon the ceremonies and celebrations which draw thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.
Producer ROGER HUTCMNGS BBC Manchester. Stereo
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This is the Virgin's keen,
In sorrow may you pray,
Let him who utters it this way
In reverence, day by day
Know that my son will never look away.
(translation of a medieval ballad Caioneadh na MaighdineJ A programme about religious songs from the Irish tradition, most of which centre on the Virgin Mary 's trials at Easter. Nóirin Nt Riain, herself a traditional singer who has rediscovered many of these songs, explores their history and character and describes how she has reinterpreted them for contemporary audiences. Producer KATHRYN PORTER
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)

by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1: The Messenger from the Lowlands
Stereo

with Clive Jacobs.
ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

A Gun for Sale (5)

Presented by Richard Bath and Robert Williams
continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS

Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN ,
PAUL B. DAVIES , JEREMY HARDY. HUNTER AND DOCHERTY. HELEN
MURRY. GEOFFREY PERKINS. VICKY
PILE. ROGER PLANER. SMITH AND KY AN. NICK WILTON and the producer JAMIE RIX
(Steve Brown is now appearing in outre jeans and a painted shirt)
Stereo

with Margaret Howard Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY
Stereo

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

John Mortimer , qc; The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp; John Cousins , General
Secretary of the Clearing Bank Union; and Teresa Gorman , Chairman of the Alliance of Small Firms and Self-Employed People (ASP), tackle the questions raised by an audience from Market Bosworth, Warwickshire
Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBCBristol

As the Bernhard Goetz trial nears, how far should self-defence go when it comes to street crime? Show more

by Alistair Cooke

The Blue Grass Stage
Each spring for the past eight years, Louisville, the Kentucky city best-known for mint juleps and horse-racing, puts on a season of new plays by aspiring young dramatists. Plays by David Mamet , Marsha Norman and a clutch of subsequent Broadway successes, both critical and commercial, were first seen at the Louisville Festival.
Christopher Bigsby visits the Blue Grass State to talk to playwrights, critics and producers attending this year's festival about the current American theatre.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Magic Toyshop (5)

Presenter Stephen Jessel
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Music and memories from the Holy Land, with the voices of the BBC WELSH CHORUS and introduced by their conductor
John Hugh Thomas
Producer ROBERT COLES. Stereo

Fr Hugh Lavery with some thoughts on the extravagance of Calvary.

followed by an interlude