with Marjorie Lofthouse Producer Jane Ward
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies including
Bells on Sunday from St Mary and All Saints, Broomfield, Somerset. Stereo
Claire Powell breakfasts with Sir John and Lady Cotterell on their farm in Herefordshire. Producer Sue Smith BBC Pebble Mill
with Clive Jacobs and Trevor Barnes
Producer Amanda Hancox Editor David Coomes including at
speaks for the Week's Good Cause on behalf of an organisation that helps the severely visually handicapped.
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by Alistair Cooke
for Palm Sunday comes live from the Cathedral Church of St George, Jerusalem. One hundred Radio 4 pilgrims visiting
Jerusalem join the cathedral congregation to remember the entry of Jesus into the city at the beginning of Holy Week.
Canon Colin Semper follows the way of Jesus from
Bethphage to Jerusalem. The service is introduced by The Very Rev Peter Crookes.
Preacher: The Rt Rev
Samir Kafty Reading:
Zechariah 9, vv 9-12;
I Corinthians 1, w 18-25; Matthew 21, w 1-13. Music: All glory, laud and honour (AMNS 328); Ride on, ride on in majesty (AMNS 61); My song is love unknown (AMNS 63); When I survey (AMNS 67).
Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor Anthony Parkin
Director and editor Ruth Patterson
BBC Pebble Mill
with Robin Lustig
Producer Jane Beresford
with Margaret Howard
Stereo
with Nick Clarke
Deputy editor Rod Liddle Editor Roger Mosey
visits Powys, where members of the Presteigne Gardening
Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Diana Stenson BBC North
by Renny Krupinski. With Patricia Hayes Rosemary Leach.
Funerals are supposed to be solemn occasions, but sometimes they are fraught with disasters, especially when tropical fish tanks are involved.
Director Janet Whitaker Stereo (R)
A seven-part series compiled by Michael Bakewell.
Anton Chekhov - a life reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends and the characters who people his plays.
With David Suchet.
1: When I Was a Child -
I Had No Childhood
'So little affection came my way as a child that I treat caresses as something unfamiliar and almost beyond my understanding now that I'm grown up.'
with John Baddeley , Victoria Carling , John Gabriel , Charles Kay , Marcia King ,
Henry Power , Simon Treves and Geoffrey Whitehead. Director Rosemary Hart. Stereo
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Four programmes.
1: All the Fun of the Fair A montage of memories evoking fairgrounds between the wars. Stereo
John Wallace is one of the best and most versatile trumpeters in the business.
With Edward Seckerson. Producer Daniel Snowman
Every ten years the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau transforms itself for the world-famous Passion
Play. Final preparations are watched by The Rev Frank Topping. Producer Jill Marshall BBC Bristol
Radio Pictures of Ladakh
The Leaping Lord of Wanla
Last programme with Tim Malyon in the Himalayas.
Producer Nigel Acheson (R)
with Chris Dunkley
(Details as yesterday 11 .30am)
Cat's Whiskers Spring Special
Presenter Julie Mayer. Peter and the Wolf with Judi Dench and the BBC Concert Orchestra conductor
Barry Wordsworth. Words and music
Serge Prokofiev.
Plus competitions, features and club members' birthdays.
Producer Brian Scott-Hughes Series producer Julia Brooke Stereo
with Nigel Forde.
Readers talk about their reading habits.
with Susan Marling
The fifth of ten programmes.
Nicholas Farrell reads an excerpt from A Little Athens by David Holbrook.
To Paul, a scholarship schoolboy in the 1930s, death brings to mind only a lately deceased goldfish and a sparrow he once killed. The death of a schoolteacher brings home the reality. Director Peter Kavanagh Stereo
The illustrator and author Shirley Hughes meets Michael Rosen.
Hallucinogenic fossils, the smelliest plant in the world, and insects that help the police. With Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm.
Stereo
Six turning-points by David Wheeler.
With Daniel Massey. 5: The Aristocrat and the Guttersnipe
Stereo (Part 6 this Wed at 11.00am)
Presenter Peter Hill Producer Sallie Davies
The Way the World Is The last of six programmes for Lent, with The Rev
Dr John Polkinghorne ,
President of Queens' College, Cambridge. 6: Life After Death
'The empty tomb makes sense, for it speaks of a destiny for all matter as well as for humanity ... that is, for all creation.' Reader Alan Sykes. Producer Norman Winter BBC North. Stereo