Presented by Michael Pickstock
BBC Pebble Mill
Hope Sealy in conversation with Sir Colin Davis , Musical
Director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Presented by Peter Hobday and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies With JOHN SWEENEY
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
Presented by Cliff Morgan
Essex begin their defence of the County Championship today, and the 1,000 Guineas is only a few days away. Football and rugby linger on though.... Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel with Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Ned Sherrin with studio guests, and regular and irregular contributions from the likes of Victoria Mather, Stephen Fry
Robert Elms and Craig Charles Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward
Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
with Peter Kellner , Political Editor of The Independent Producer SHEILA COOK
Producer SUE LITTLED ALE
(Details on Monday at 10.0 0 am)
Sheila Hancock , Derek Nimmo Tim Rice and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker MP, Frances Morrell, Anne Sofer and Simon Jenkins from Thurlby, Lincolnshire
The second of three programmes on The American Musical The Great Age Producer ALAN OWEN (R)
by Michael Wall
with Edward Petherbridge as Charles Catchpole, Eleanor Bron as the Princess Malvezzi and Greg Hicks as Jack Cody
She was the talk of Venice in the 1850s. She was captivating, effusive. But was she really dangerous? When the gondola arrived to take Charles Catchpole to the Princess Malvezzi, he had no idea that it would deliver him into a world of romance and political intrigue. As an artist he would much rather stay an observer, hiding beneath his wide-brimmed hat.
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Easter Monday)
Presented by Peter Evans
Presented by Derek Jones
Michael Clegg and Malcolm Coe attempt to answer another batch of listeners' questions.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Sports Round-up
Music by DILLIE KEAN
Producer PIPPA BURSTON. Stereo
John and the King of the Zulus by ADRIAN RELD
John is desperate to rise socially among the British colony of Natal in the mid-19th century, but he is hampered by his humble origins. When circumstances lead to a friendship with the Zulu leader, Cetshwayo, John seizes the opportunity of enriching himself as Cetshwayo's righthand man. Then the British authorities step in with a plan.
Other parts played by TOM KAROL and ESMOND RIDEOUT Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
The Possessors by JOHN CHRISTOPHER abridged in 12 episodes by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Hywel Bennett 4: Mother and Son
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
led by Eddie Neale. Stereo
This Language Business
Scarcely a quarter of UK exports now go into the English-speaking world. Well over half go into Europe. What efforts are British businessmen making to learn foreign languages? And how important is 'knowing the language' to Britain's future as a trading nation?
Chris Serle investigates.
Consultant PROFESSOR NIGEL REEVES of Surrey University
Producer IRIS SPRANKLING (R) 0 INFO: page 77
Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Professor Maurice Wilkins , joint winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of the DNA double helix.
by William Osborne and Richard Turner
Yes, it's all in your super-sexy Nineteen Ninety-Eight. Three-in-a-bed riddle... Were they all men?! Fetcher... too late for goodbyes? And who is the mysterious Zack?
(BBC Manchester)
(Stereo)
A late-night sitcom starring Kit Hollerbach and Jeremy Hardy Caroline Leddy Paul B. Davies
4: A Day in the Country
When our friends decide to commune with Mother Nature it's out with the picnic snacks and off to the farm! Just as well the Sizefield nuclear power station is completely safe.... Written by JEREMY HARDY
PAUL B. DAVIES. KIT HOLLERBACH with STEVE PUNT. PETE SINCLAIR
CAROLINE LEDDY and DAVE COHEN Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
followed by an interlude
