The role of BBC local radio stations is becoming more significant, particularly because of the wide range of programmes they now produce to serve the ethnic communities in their areas. In today's programme,
Parveen Mirza discusses their output with Radio WM's Anita Bhalla , Shashi Singh from Radio Sheffield and Radio Bedfordshire's Saadia Nasiri.
Neelam Khurana sings a Punjabi geet.
An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBC Pebble Mill

for Easter from Salisbury
Roger Royle joins Christians in Salisbury's famous cathedral to sing the praises of the risen Lord.
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
(St Fulbert): 0 sons and daughters: Angel voices; To God be the glory; Now the green blade riseth
(Noel Nouvelet ); Immortal invisible (St Denio); One more step along the world I go (Southcote); Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
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Snooker Championship Round One
Tony Knowles (seeded 5) and Mike Hallett finish off their
19-frame match this morning, while on the other side of the dividing wall Tony Meo (11) is up against John Parrott.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE from Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. Commentators
TED LOWE. JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers
JIM MEADOWCROFT
JOHN SPENCER
TV presentation KEITH PHILLIPS MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER including at
2.0 pm News and Weather

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank
There is a lot to do in the vegetable and organic gardens, and Geoff has accepted the challenge of making a wormery for E5.
This is also the best time of year for planting evergreens. Stefan Buczacki takes a look at weedkillers.

The World Professional Snooker Championship Two more matches to be played this afternoon, and they are between Silvino Francisco (seeded 12) and John Campbell , who are starting their 19 frames, while Jimmy White (6), winner of the Grand Prix and British Open, is finishing his match with Dean Reynolds. DAVID icke introduces. including at
3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

'There is no doubt the youth of Japan are richer, better educated, better disciplined, better employed than young people anywhere else in the world. But can they do the boogaloo?' David Hepworth and the Whistle Test cameras visit Tokyo.
Executive producer MICHAEL APPLETON
Producer DAVID G. CROFT

The World Professional Snooker Championship Round One
From the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, with DAVID VINE.

With two Irishmen already through to the final of the coarse fishing match, the pressure is really mounting on the British members of the combined team representing Britain and Ireland.
Can the former Irish world champion Bobby Smithers become the third Irish member of the combined side to make it to the final? In today's match the home side faces three top international matchmen from France.
Meanwhile Derek Davis takes top children's entertainers The Krankies on a wet and windy sea-fishing trip off the coast of Elsinore. Heat 3
Britain and Ireland:
IAN MOULTON (Britain) BOB NUDD (Britain)
BOBBY SMITHERS (Ireland) v France:
BERNARD BODINEAU
DIDIER GUESSARD
GILLES HENAUT
Match organiser PETE THOMPSON Director PHIL FRANKLIN Producer ROY RONNIE
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As Jaguar prepares to launch its new Sovereign in the United States,
William Woollard compares it to its deadly rivals from Mercedes and BMW. At the cheaper end of the market, a look at the range of mopeds available - how well do they perform and how safe are they?
Chris Goffey asks whether car manufacturers can learn from the sophisticated electronics fitted to the latest tractors, and Frank Page investigates some deals and discounts available when you try to buy a new car.
And the end of an era - as the last Ford Capris reach dealers' showrooms around the country, Sue Baker looks back on the British motorist's love affair with 'the car you always promised yourself. Producer JON BENTLEY
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

Seven programmes on the food of the Mediterranean, introduced and narrated by cookery writer Claudia Roden 6: Greece
Real Greek food is home cooking rarely found in tourist restaurants. Starting on the sun-drenched island of Paros, cooks divulge some of the secrets of their kitchens, including 'avgolemono', the traditional egg and lemon sauce; beef stifatho, an earthy aromatic stew; and authentic taramosalata.
And for the stouthearted, a demonstration on how to clean a squid ready for stuffing!
Photography TONY MAYNE
Film editor ALASTAIR MITCHELL Videotape editor PETER FRANCIS Series producer
MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE Book, £12.95 from booksellers
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Neal Foulds (seeded 13) is having a very good season, having reached two major finals. He is playing
John Virgo in the first session of their 19-frame match. The other match tonight is the concluding session between Tony Meo (11) and John Parrott.
With DAVID VINE

The Smiths
A compilation of the recent series about one family's experience of trying to stay in work, presented by Eric Robson.
The Smith Family from
Peterlee, County Durham. explain the reality of what it s like to be out of work. John Smith , 40, highly skilled and no stranger to working away from home, was made redundant after 17 years in work. His wife Carol manages the family finances on £90 per week. Her son John is 19 and has six 0-levels, but has never worked, while Paul, his younger brother, has only three and has always had a job. He is the family's sole wage-earner. Film cameraman
RICHARD WRANKEN
Film editor MICHAEL DUXBURY Executive producer JENNY ROGERS
Producer RICHARD ELSE (e) BBC North East

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With political and economic reports from
Vincent Hanna Will Hutton and Nick Clarke

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Snooker Championship Round One
DAVID VINE introduces further coverage from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.