Farming news and weather
with SYLVIA SANDS. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: William and the Lost Tourist
Your chance to discuss an issue of the moment with Nick and his guests.
Producer nick utechin Lines open from 8.00am
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
(at the Civil Rights March on Washington DC, 1963)
Martin Luther King was assassinated 20 years ago this week. Gordon Clough travelled to King's home city of Atlanta to talk to his four children about life in pursuit of their father's 'dream'.
Today he talks to eldest daughter Yolande, who runs a theatre company with the daughter of Malcolm X, once Martin Luther King 's rival in the Civil Rights Movement. Producer STEPHEN OLIVER. Stereo
Children still break their legs and have their tonsils out, but the days of diphtheria and rheumatic fever are over.
Geoff Watts visits the Alder Hey and City branches of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and learns how the one-time isolation hospital and children's infirmary now concentrate on very different kinds of medical problems. Producer ALISON RICHARDS
A season of morning stories for Easter Free by SIAN JAMES
Read by Sue Jones Davies
New Every Morning, p34; Christ the Lord is risen (BBC HB 100); Psalm 150; Luke 25, vv 36-49; Now the green blade riseth (BBC HB 109) Stereo
Bank Holiday Blues (1) by MIKE WALKER Directed byAJ QUINN
Stereo
(Part 2 on Thursday at 11.00am) A synopsis of current events in 'Citizens' is on Ceefax page 144
When Dan Cherrington was a lad, a farmer's son spent much of his time pursuing rabbits, not always with success. But the latest technology offered new hope - or did it? BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Susan Rae
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
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough
Today's story: Wriggly Worm's Good Deed Stereo (R)
celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Rambert and her lasting influence on the world of dance. Presenter Jenni Murray
Serial: Dangerous in Love by LESLIE THOMAS abridged in nine episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Bruce Lidington (1) When an old tramp is found drowned in the local canal, an open verdict is returned. But Detective 'Dangerous' Davies (he's a danger only to himself!) isn't satisfied....
(Music: Hazell's The Cats)
by HARRY BARTON
Jim is unsettled by the witch-like Hazel, and wonders if he has met her somewhere before....
Directed by KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
A second chance to hear Richard Baker talking to
Sir Georg and Lady Solti in their North London home. Producer JUDITH ROLES (R)
David Lomax investigates innovation, initiative, enterprise and success in the world of business and issues which affect it both at home and abroad.
Research by SIAN JARVIS Producer ROD POUNSETT
A member of our congregation last night was seen either very drunk or trying to write Hebrew in the frost with his feet.
(from a baroque
Bavarian sermon)
The end of Lent in 17th-century Bavaria was a time for Roman Catholic preachers to let their hair down and regale their flocks with comic stories laced with home truths. Philip Brady , Reader in German at Birkbeck College, finds the humour of 300 years ago surprisingly fresh and full of a worldly wisdom that is valid today.
Sermons read by ALFRED MARKS Producer CARROLL MOORE
Presented by Robert Williams and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Stereo
Brian Redhead reports on the world of work.
All over Europe there is great - concern about how best to help the long-term unemployed.
Brian Redhead finds out about the initiatives being taken in north-west England, and there are reports on policies being adopted in Sweden and other European countries.
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Researchers CLARE HASTINGS and DOROTHEE WIGGINTON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.05pm)
News, views and information for the visually handicapped Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
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Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Leaving Home 7: State Fair
with Alexander MacLeod
Rewi Alley, David Crook Talitha Gerlach ,
Sidney Shapiro and Gladys Yang are five Westerners who went to
China before liberation, either out of curiosity or because of their political beliefs. They tell Gordon Bowker how they joined the struggle of the Chinese people and why they stayed on through 60 years of social and political upheaval.
. Producer BRIDGET CARTER (R)
