Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey
i with Rev David Hutt.
with John Humphrys and Chris Lowe.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb
A six-part series, written by Ian McMillan and Martyn Wiley , with Finetime Fontayne in the role of Richard Matthewman , a 42-year-old teacher from
South Yorkshire. He recalls some of the highlights of a lifetime spent in the same pit village.
1: Harry, Jud, Kennedy and Me
Producer Dave Sheasby
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
Never Knew
Ted Harrison - reporter, presenter, and kidney transplant patient - writes six letters to the unknown donor who has given him new life and reflects on the experience in the light of the events of Holy Week. 1: I Never Did Get to
Oberammergau
Producer John Newbury
with Shyama Perera.
Serial: The Cry from Street to Street by Hilary Bailey. Sixth of nine episodes read by Mia Soteriou.
Music Penderecki's Cello Concerto No 2
Abridged by Delia Paton Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances Macdonald •Lines open from 10.00am
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
The first semi-final in the wide-ranging musical quiz hosted by Ned Sherrin. Producer Gareth Edwards
with Nick Clarke.
Burma, 1942. The Japanese were 20 miles away.
Thousands tried to escape through the jungle, over the mountains to India. David Gooderson's play draws upon the experience of survivors to tell the story of the 250-mile trek. Sunny BHASKER
Director Richard Wortley
Sue MacGregor goes to
Belfast to talk to the writer Harry Barton about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush
As Easter approaches, Robert Dawson Scott listens to two Passions -
Bach's St Matthew and the St Mark Passion by Charles Wood. Also, an exhibition of holograms, and the letters between Flaubert and Sand. Producer John Boundy
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Deceptively Spacious by Patricia Ferguson. House-hunting around London for the "deceptively spacious" proves dangerous when jealousy gets in the way. Read by Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Producer Michael Earley
with Wendy Austin and Frank Partridge.
There's a new guest at Grey Gables.
with Derek Cooper.
A special report from the Ukraine.
Angelface
In the 13th century, love tended to happen at an early age. The poet Dante was only nine when he fell in love with Beatrice. She was to be the source of his first work, The New Life.
Bruce Stewart explores the world's greatest love story in a contemporary and entertaining interpretation.
Music: Peter Howell
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The history of US-Russia summits
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Yeltsin and Clinton meet in Vancouver and Alistair Cooke considers the eventful history of US-Russia summits and what purpose they serve after the Cold War.
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Nigel Cassidy.
with Robin Lustig.
On the Third Day by Piers Paul Read. Read in ten parts by Charles Simpson.
What if Christ didn't rise from the dead? That is the question that runs through this intellectual thriller. Archaelogist and monk John Lambert is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Brother Andrew 's determination to discover the reason for his death leads him to
Jerusalem - and to a plot to upset the political stability of the world.
Abridged by Ian Taylor
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
Another chance to hear the radio comedy shows that television couldn't resist.
After Henry by Simon Brett.
Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, with Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare, and Marion Bailey as Janie. Moving
"The whole basement's just storage space really. If Clare went, I'd rattle around like a pea in a barrel." Producer Pete Atkin
(First broadcast in 1985)
Catholics tell their stories of what goes on in the confessional, and priests reveal their own dilemmas.
Reporter Jennifer Holden. Producer Tessa Watt