(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

Cylchgrawn crefyddol sy'n adlew. yrchu ac yn cloriannu gweithgarwch eglwysi Cymru a'r byd.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

(to 13.20)

James Urquhart tells the story.
(BBC film)

A series of four programmes comparing the daily life of families in other lands with customs in our own.

Those taking part in the discussion include:
Marion Smith, Ph.D., Honorary Secretary of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Anne Guillemin, Raymond Escoffey.
Introduced by Isobel Barnett.
Film by arrangement with the National Film Board of Canada

Written by Frank Baker.
An eccentric new neighbour has swooped on Bell Tower. Anne, exhausted and ill, has agreed to a money-making scheme of Mike's. Gary grows more secretive.
(to 15.30)

Presenting Lenny the Lion with Terry Hall, Ronnie Hilton, Michael Balfour, Christopher Hodge, Nicolas Tannar

with Adrian Hill who sets a subject. helps you with your picture-making, and announces this week's prize-winners.
Picture Gallery: 'The Game'

A news magazine for South-East England.

News from South and West
(Rowridge)

Roger Bond is a farmer's son but his life is closely linked with the sea, and his dreams are of tides and boats and fishing and, above all, the spoils of the sea.
A BBC film made in the Isles of Scilly

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Polly Elwes and Cy Grant.

Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.

The men at the camp shun Bilko and all his get-rich-quick schemes, so he looks for greener pastures. But when he transfers his gambling activities to the Women's Barracks, poor Bilko's troubles are only just beginning.

Outside Broadcast cameras bring you some of the bouts direct from the St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow.

The final round of the 'Get Ahead' competition.
(See below)

Get Ahead at 8.30
A competition organised by the 'News Chronicle' which offers £7,500 in prize money The Final Round

The four finalists are 'On the Spot' for the last time to prove their claims to the top prize of £5,000

The Judges: Lady Barnett, Sir Miles Thomas, Sir Frederick Hooper, J.G.W. Davies, O.B.E.
Chairman of the Judges: John Coope
Introduced by Peter West
From the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale

A further visit to St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow.

Translation and adaptation by James Kirkup

Why should a play written nearly 500 years ago in France, a play which at first sight seems very rough and ready, which has many imperfections, outworn conventions and mostly cardboard characters, seem today so alive and as moving to our over-entertained selves as it must have been when it was performed to the unsophisticated audiences of its time? The theme itself is overwhelming, but there have been many other plays about it with far less impact. Certainly the radio production owed a lot to the splendid and lively translation of James Kirkup and the music composed by Reginald Redman, yet the main reason for its success must undoubtedly be attributed to those very early dramatists, the brothers Greban.
We began thinking of a television production of the play when we were planning it for radio. We were borrowing then from certain television methods to help us solve some new problems in that presentation. However, there still remained many problems to be overcome for television; technically, because of the extreme difficulty of mounting a television drama in a cathedral, in sound coverage, in lighting such a great area, in the building of the three stages, and in the installation of six cameras and their ancillary equipment; artistically, because we intend to present the play as a medieval performance, and the right balance between the unpolished acting on the platforms, which serve as stages, and the demands of the television camera for reality must be satisfying.
Tonight's play may perhaps in places seem nothing more than a simple charade incongruously describing the events which led up to the Crucifixion. It may perhaps at times seem cruel and outrageous. Nevertheless, I think if we, as a company of technicians and cast, even begin to do justice to the play, it will be something worth watching and remembering.
(Brandon Acton-Bond)

Performed by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter in the Nave of Bristol Cathedral
At 9.45

Cast of the Medieval Company:

A talk for Maundy Thursday by Professor Davis McCaughey, Master of Ormond College, University of Melbourne.
Followed by Weather; Road Works Report and Close Down