Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW. DAVID ADDIS
With THE REV SHELAGH BROWN Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: A Birthday Treat from William the Conqueror
As the Easter school holiday gets underway. Nick's guest in the studio is the Secretary of State for Education, The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker , mp. This is your chance to put your views on the state of schools directly to the policy-maker.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0am
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of correspondents.
In the second of five talks for Holy Week, John Harriott looks at the Cross as a key to life's meaning.
led by Canon Donald Gray , Chaplain to the Speaker direct from the Crypt Chapel, the Palace of Westminster, with the BBC SINGERS directed by SIMON joly
Praise to the Holiest in the height (A&MR 185); Praise to thee Lord Jesus (Schutz)
Reading: Luke 20, vv 19-25
(Paying taxes to Caesar - power to the state)
My God, I love thee (BBC HB 276) Stereo
by Edgar Wallace, adapted by John Scotney
With Nick Brimble as Educated Evans, Vernon Joyner as Sergeant Challoner and Orlando Wells as Little Ernie
Who stole the stolen goods, and how can Little Ernie realise his dream of seeing a really 'proud' horse - and maybe get well again? Two seemingly unrelated problems. But what they've both got in common is that curiously colourful cockney 'Educated Evans'.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9. Opm)
Secret Forests and Crocodile Caves
In the uncharted caverns, canyons and isolated forests of the Ankarana Massif in northern Madagascar, a British expedition led by Jane Wilson and Phil Chapman discovers rare lemurs and flightless birds, a new species of pink blind fish, large and very aggressive freshwater eels, and six metre long crocodiles that hide in the caves.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Last programme in the series Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: King Jolly and The Robot (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Cancer of the testes is now curable if detected early.
Margaret Horsfield investigates this most common of cancer among young men.
Serial: The Accidental Tourist by ANNE TYLER abridged in 15 episodes byPATMCLOUGHLIN
Read by William Roberts (15) (Music: Parker's 'A Londoner in New York')
After the Funeral
The first of two plays by ALUN OWEN
When two brothers turn up for the funeral of their mother, they disagree about what should happen to their grandfather with whom their mother has been living.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo (R)
(The second play, 'Widowers', next Tuesday)
novelist and polymath, who was 70 in February, reads from the opening chapter of his recently published autobiography Little Wilson and Big God. Producer JOHN TYDEMAN (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and John Sergeant continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With HARRIET CASS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
4: The Arts Stereo
Written by SIMON FRITH Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Max Easterman Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
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 DEBORAH COHEN (Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am)
The Amateur Justices
(Details on Good Friday at 11. 0 am)
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 10.15pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
In Touch, BBC, London WIA 4WW (Send four saes, 8 1/2 x 12, for a year's supply)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JUUAN MAY
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
