with the Rev
Ronald Hoar. Stereo
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
Aisling Foster presents a three-part delve into the BBC Archives.
2: Why Is Everybody Else So Much Better at It?
The British and foreign food. Producer Elizabeth Burke. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
0 TICKETS: On May Day Bank Holiday, Start the Week comes from Manchester. Tickets for the recording on Tuesday. 30 April at 2pm are available from the Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road. Castlefield,
Manchester, or by sending an SAE marked 'Start the Week -
Manchester to: [address removed]
Plenty Good Fiesta by Elizabeth Taylor.
Read by Anna Massey. Producer Duncan Minshull
from Bishopthorpe Palace, York.
To mark the 750th anniversary of the Palace, the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev and Rt Hon
Dr John Habgood , leads the first ever broadcast service from his private chapel, joined by Canon Noel Vincent and the New English Orchestra Singers. Let All the World (Luckington); II
Corinthians 4, w 5-18;
0 Praise the Name of the Lord (Rachmaninov); God Is Working His Purpose Out (Benson).
Director of Music Nigel Swinford.
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers
Rosalind Shanks and Andrew Sachs and guest U A Fanthorpe.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
with Margaret Collins. Editor Ken Vass
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round - The South. Peter Nichols (estates manager); Rosemary Goodacre (teacher);
Richard Lawson (civil servant); and Ken Ricketts (computer repair engineer).
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
with Jenni Murray.
Serial: Hester Lilly by Elizabeth Taylor.
The first of six episodes read by Anna Massey.
Hester Lilly, recently orphaned, has come to live with her cousin Robert and his wife Muriel - much to Muriel's jealous resentment.
Abridged by Delia Paton
Music: Saint-Saens's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Editor Sally Feldman
A classic romantic adventure in the Lebanon.
Young Chris Mansell seeks to solve the mystery surrounding her eccentric great aunt and finds herself in unexpected danger.
Written by Mary Stewart.
With David Graham.
Dramatised by Barry Campbell Director David Johnston
Menuhin's 75th
Sir Yehudi Menuhin is 75 today and the programme is devoted to an interview between one of the father figures of British musicians and Michael Berkeley. Menuhin talks about the composers he has known, including
Britten and Bartok, his work in encouraging young talent, and about his instrument, the violin. Producer Belinda Sample
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
and Financial Report
Stereo
Kathy is still down on her luck - but for how long?
with Joanna Blythman.
Togetherness
A group of Belfast teenagers, Catholic and Protestant, are on the holiday of a lifetime, paid for by well-meaning
Americans who hope it will bring them together. It does, but not in the way that their host could ever have imagined.
Written by J P Rooney. Percussionist: Malcolm Neal
Director Pam Brighton. Stereo
One of this country's leading chamber ensembles displays the lighter side of its repertoire.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Stereo
with Roger White.
(Stereo)
with Richard Kershaw.
(Stereo)
An Autumn Sowing by E F Benson.
The first of ten parts, introducing us to
Mr Keeling 's secret garden.
Read by Denys Hawthorne. Abridged by Anthony Keary
Producer Enyd Williams. Stereo
A six-part comedy written by Alex Shearer.
2: Our Own Correspondent Press freedom reaches the People's Republic, closely followed by investigative reporter Henry Treebling.
Producer Nell Cargill . Stereo
