With MICHAEL HARDING
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to discuss an issue of the moment with Nick and his guests.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
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 GEOFF DEEHAN
A season of morning stories for Easter
It Was Wonderful by JUDE COLLINS
Read by Jude Collins
Heather McIlwaine was a Protestant with gorgeous plump shoulders. And there was I, an 11-year-old Catholic, about to barter a holy relic for a closer look at them. Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
New Every Morning, page 75; New every morning is the love (BBC HB 408); Psalm 16; John 6, vv 47-58; Bread of heaven (BBC HB 200) Stereo
Happy Families (1) by MEERA SYAL
Cast for the week:
Directed by A J. QUINN. Stereo
(Part 2 on Thursday at 11. 00am) A synopsis of current events in 'Citizens 'is on Ceefax page 144
A farmer's son feels good when he's first allowed to use the tractor, but Dan Cherrington hadn't reckoned on meeting Old George, the Hereford bull ... BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Buckley
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 Nick Worrall
And Hand in Hand, on the Edge of the Sand They Danced by the Light of the Moon
In the programme no woman can afford to miss, Jenni Murray meets the opera singer Helen Lawrence. Serial: Dangerous in Love (6)
A comedy in two falls and one submission by ANDREW GOREING with and In his day. Barney Bloodaxe - the man who bit off
Eric Rasputin 's ear - was a titan of the wrestling ring. Now he has hung up his trunks and turned pro-gardener, but Harold has other ideas and plans for a bout to end all bouts ...
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
The relationship between the dancer on pointes and the conductor in the pit is at times a volatile one. One or two highly-charged moments are recalled by Richard Baker 's guests this week, Dame Merle Park , now Director of the Royal Ballet
School, and Bramwell Tovey , who was until recently
Principal Conductor of Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
Presented by David Lomax Researcher SIAN JARVIS Producer ROD POUNSETT
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
A series of unguarded observations by MICHAEL FRAYN Producer
PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
'I would do almost anything to be there. If the Lord spares me, I'll find the money to get there every year until they put me in a box and slam down the lid.' For 362 days a year,
Cheltenham is a sleepy, dignified spa town, but for the remaining three it's more like
Dawson City at the height of the gold rush. Thousands of Irishmen descend on the town for the National Hunt Festival. They spend like lords, back
Irish horses, laugh, sing, curse and revel in the glorious anarchy of it all.
Music written and performed by STEPHEN FAUX
Researcher CAROLINE PARSONS
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE . Stereo
for the visually handicapped Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned through to the 'In Touch ' team tonight between 8.30and
10.15pm on [number removed]A free quarterly bulletin from: [address removed] (send four large saesfor a year's supply)
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
A Clergyman's Daughter (2)
with Alexander MacLeod
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