Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
with the Rt Rev
Peter Firth.
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
NEW Aisling Foster
NEW presents three-part delve into the BBC Archives.
1: Jam Tomorrow
Was it rationing that did it, or are the British really puritans at heart?
Producer Elizabeth Burke
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
• TICKETS: a special Bank
Holiday edition of Start the Week will be coming from Manchester. Tickets for the recording on Tuesday. 30 April at 2pm are available by sending an sae marked Start the Week -
Manchester to: [address removed].
Three Hours Between
Planes by F Scott Fitzgerald.
Three hours have to be killed. So Donald looks up an old flame - and gets a big surprise ...
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Duncan Minshull
with Shirley Scott in the Chapter House, Gloucester Cathedral.
With the St Cecilia
Singers directed by Mark Lee.
Easter Anthems (Andrew Carter ); Luke 24, vv 1-12; Surgens Jesus (Phillips); Come, Ye Faithful , Raise the Strain (NEH 106).
Cliff Michelmore completes his three-part coastal journey from
Portland Bill along Chesil Beach to Abbotsbury,
Bridport and Lyme Regis. Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests. With readers
Andrew Sachs and Rosalind Shanks and guest Ursula Fanthorpe. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
• CASSETTE: Poetry Please!, from retailers
Editor Ken Vass
NEW A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First round - The South. Sue Edwards (corporate finance administrator);
Edward Towne (teacher); Diane Clements (banker); and Peter Carey (town planner). The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Birth Marks
Written and read by Sarah Dunant.
The tenth of 12 episodes. Abridged by Doreen Estall Music: Boughton's Oboe Concerto No 1
Editor Sally Feldman
'The media's full of people like you, determined to keep someone like me out. It's a closed circle. A magic ring. I'll be doing the world a favour getting rid of you. Your time's up, bitch.' Written by Caroline Graham.
Actor/Sgt Williams JAMES GOODE Director Matthew Walters
Stereo
Paul Vaughan on the new recording of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande, in Paris for the exhibition of paintings by Georges Seurat ; and at the first night of Fred D'Aguiar 's play A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death.
Producer Julian May
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
and Financial Report
Stereo
David's putting pressure on Phil to tell Graham the news.
Derek Cooper visits the best markets in Lancashire's mill-towns.
Stone Age
Memories of the 60s and her university days have haunted Val for the last
20 years - until a return visit destroys them. Written by Carolyn Sally Jones.
Director Kay Patrick. Stereo
One of this country's leading chamber ensembles displays the lighter side of its repertoire.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Stereo
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw. Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Tuppence for the Rainbow '
Leslie Sands 's i autobiography, abridged j in eight episodes and i read by the author.
6: Best Foot Forward
Producer Tony Cliff
A six-part comedy written by Alex Shearer. 1: Whose Rubbish
Is It Anyway?
Her Majesty's Ambassador I MacKenzie continues to dispense his own blend of British foreign policy in his eastern bloc posting.
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo
