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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).

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Colin Semper
Unknown:
Peter Crookes.
Unknown:
Samir Kafty

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

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)

Contributors

Unknown:
Renny Krupinski.
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Rosemary Leach.
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Nell:
Patricia Hayes
Joan:
Rosemary Leach
Maisy:
Mary Wimbush
Angela:
Zelah Clarke
David:
Kim Wall

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
W SHOW TIMES: page 17 7
W WODDIS: page 75

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell.
Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
David Suchet.
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Victoria Carling
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Charles Kay
Unknown:
Marcia King
Unknown:
Henry Power
Unknown:
Simon Treves
Unknown:
Geoffrey Whitehead.
Director:
Rosemary Hart.
Chekhov:
David Suchet
Maria Chekhov:
Anna Massey
Pavel Chekhov:
Maurice Denham
Mikhail Chekhov:
Nicholas Farrell
Alexander Chekhov:
David Goudge
Yevgenia Chekhov:
Jo Kendall
Trigorin:
John Rowe
Mme Ranyevskaya:
Janet Suzman

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Julie Mayer.
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth.
Unknown:
Serge Prokofiev.
Producer:
Julia Brooke

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Farrell
Unknown:
Little Athens
Unknown:
David Holbrook.
Director:
Peter Kavanagh

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Polkinghorne
Reader:
Alan Sykes.

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