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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With MICHAEL PREST
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Michael Prest
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
John Inverdale

for Tuesday in Holy Week from the Chapel of Lambeth Palace
0 sacred head sore wounded (BBC HB 86); Sing my soul his wondrous love (Ned Roren ); Mark 12, vv 18-34: A day of teaching; There is a green hill far away (BBC HB 92). Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Roren

Squiffy Quite Quickly in the Heat
A social comedy by DAVID MARSHALL
A holiday on a Greek island is just what Clive needs. But faced with a wife who is a heavy drinker, a know-all young step-daughter and noisy villa neighbours, he is not so sure. On the other hand, he is also a pompous meany ...
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0pm) (Robert Glenister is a National Theatre Player)

Contributors

Comedy By:
David Marshall
Directed By:
Richard Wortley.
Unknown:
Robert Glenister
Steve:
Robert Glenister
Carol:
Natasha Pyne
Clive:
Richard Durden
Gwen:
Frances Jeater
Debbie:
Annabelle Lanyon

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by ALISON MCGHEE
When cornered by a pack of wolves, a traveller is advised to 'drop down his clothes to be trampled underfoot and take two stones in his hands which he must beat together'.
Barry Paine , Angela Barlow and Douglas Leach trace the wolf in legend and literature and find that the creature has always loomed menacingly large in our imaginations. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison McGhee
Unknown:
Barry Paine
Unknown:
Angela Barlow
Unknown:
Douglas Leach

A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
Michael O'Donnell
Panellist:
Dilys Powell
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Antonia Fraser
Panellist:
Denis Norden
Devised by:
Tony Shryane
Devised by:
Edward J. Mason
Questions compiled by:
Peter Moore
Producer:
Pete Atkin

A four-part dramatisation for Holy Week based on the Gospel narratives. Introduced by Rosemary Hartill
1: A Nation in Turmoil
SEBASTIAN BELL (flute)
Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY
Directed by GEOFF MARSHALL TAYLOR (First broadcast on BBC School Radio) Stereo
0 FEATURE: page 12

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rosemary Hartill
Written By:
Arthur Scholey
Directed By:
Geoff Marshall Taylor
Jesus:
Paul Copley
Malachi:
Brian Glover
John the Baptist:
Bob Docherty
Captain:
Brian Glover
Herod/Wedding guest:
Michael Deacon
Peter:
Dave Hill
Ester/Mary, the mother of Jesus:
Narissa Knights
Jorim/Soldier:
Graham Blockey
Jethro/Eliakim:
Colin Starkey
Judas of Gamala:
Geoffrey Matthews
Zealot/Soldier:
Joe Dunlop
Andrew/lssachar:
Steve Hodson
Judas:
Kenneth Shanley
Caleb/Pharisee:
David Sinclair
Matthew:
Christopher Douglas
Simon:
Nigel Graham
EUab:
Bernard Brown
Zichh/Jacob:
Lee Galpin
Ephraim:
David Bradshawe

The Short Match by A. S. ROBERTSON
A party of young businessmen from Glasgow are all set for a great night out - blissfully unaware of the 'Terrible Truth about the Highlands'...
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
A. S. Robertson
Directed By:
Patrick Rayner
Adam:
Pat Doyle
Robert:
Don Gallagher
Margaret:
Yvonne Gilan
Betty:
Joanna Keddie
Frank:
James MacPherson
Tom:
Billy McColl
Grace:
Gaylie Runciman
Cecil:
Douglas Sannachan

What is it that holds a community together? It is only in a crisis that the skeleton of a community is exposed.
The third of four programmes in which Margaret Percy looks at how communities have coped with very different types of crisis.
Earthquake
In 1980, 3,000 people died and almost 500,000 were made homeless when an earthquake struck Naples and the surrounding villages in southern Italy. Five years later, buildings remain in ruins and thousands are still living in squalid container camps, waiting for the hopelessly inefficient authorities to rehouse them.
Producer BRIAN KING BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Percy

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer JOHN FORSYTH Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Contributors

Reporter:
Michael Robinson
Producer:
John Forsyth
Editor:
Brian Walker

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre, to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Julian Brown

Semana Santa
Each year. in Holy Week, the Spanish city of Seville is transformed into a setting for medieval pageantry and processions depicting the Passion of Christ. The population doubles; night is turned into day; the sound of brass and drum is loud in the streets; the sight of bejewelled Virgins and of the suffering
Christ dazzles the eye; and the air is heavy with the smell of orange blossom mingled with wax and incense.
Trader Faulkner captures the unique atmosphere of this most famous of European religious festivals.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS

Contributors

Producer:
Anne Howells

News. views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
Room 816, Broadcasting House, London W1A IAA.
(Send four large SAEs for a year's supply)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

The Rise of the Gross-out Comedy
In 1978 National Lampoon's
Animal House was released in the USA. Critics found low humour and dependable, if juvenile, gags; young audiences found a new kind of comedy; and Hollywood discovered a bonanza: Animal House broke all existing box-office records. The result was a revolution in bad taste which led to films like Ghostbusters, Spies Like Us, Police Academy, and bred a new style of American comedy. Christopher Frayling looks at the long trail of offensive humour which started as a defiant satirical magazine produced by Harvard graduates and ended in cinematic food fights.
With Jon Landis , Chris Miller Harold Ram is, Matty Simmons Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Produced By:
Harvard Graduates
Unknown:
Jon Landis
Unknown:
Chris Miller
Unknown:
Harold Ram
Unknown:
Matty Simmons
Producer:
Carroll Moore

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