During this week Christians consider again the story of the suffering and death of Christ-many of them in the setting of the Holy Week ceremonies.
Father Patrick McEnroe introduces the new French film 'La Semaine Sainte', and shows how the Easter Vigil ceremony grows out of the story of Christ's
Crucifixion and Resurrection.

(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)

The story of the Pilgrim Fathers.
On September 6, 1620, a group of travellers set out from Plymouth in the Mayflower to find a new land across the sea where they could worship God in the way they chose. After a terrible crossing they landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, thus creating the first English settlement in New England.

Per Host, the Norwegian explorer, shows some of the film he took during his visit to Europe's last remaining primitive people-the Lapps-who live in the far north of Norway.

The Rev. Austen Williams invites you to think about the meaning of Good Friday.

Easter weekend is the traditional time for the British to get to work in their gardens and today Percy Thrower suggests jobs to do over the holiday.
F. P. Knight, the Director of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley, introduces a subject particularly appropriate at this time. He shows some of the plants mentioned in the New Testament, several of which have been specially flown from the Holy Land for the programme.

Written and produced by Joy Harington.
A cycle of plays on the Life of Our Lord.

When Caiaphas, the High Priest, learned that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival he called a meeting of the Council of the Sanhedrin to decide what was to be done with this 'prophet of Nazareth' who was causing such a disturbance among the people and the religious life of the country; and although opinion was divided, Caiaphas was convinced of his duty. 'It is to your advantage', he said to the Priests and Pharisees, 'that one man should die for the people rather than that a whole nation should perish'. Meanwhile through wildly cheering crowds Jesus rode into the city.
(BBC telerecording of the programme on March 25, 1956)

McDonald Hobley invites you Up for the Cup.
from Manchester
Semi-final: Heart of Midlothian v. the winners of Chelsea v. Accrington Stanley
with Leslie Welch the 'Memory Man' and Robin Richmond at the electric organ
Guest star, Tessie O'Shea

This BBC film documentary attempts to show what it is like to be a prisoner, shut away from society. The people in the film are (with one or two very minor exceptions) the officials and prisoners in Strangeways Gaol, Manchester. What they say is unscripted and uncensored.
See page 13

by G. Martinez Sierra.
Translated by J.G. Underhill.

(Michael Gough is appearing in "Fanny" at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
See page 5

A discussion on penal reform on the issues raised by the BBC film 'In Prison'.
Those taking part include: The. Rt. Hon Sir Norman Birkett, A Psychiatrist, Duncan Fairn, Commissioner of Prisons

A music drama.
[Starring] Virginia Copeland
See foot of page and page 13
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on October 4, 1956)

London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Granville Jones
Conducted by Thomas Schippers
At 10.10