Listings
: Today
with Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON preceded by There is a green hill far away
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters
Contributors
: Bill, the Galactic Hero
5: 'Fighting Chingers is bad enough, but on this planet they have the Venians on their side: mouldy newts with maybe just enough IQ to hold a gun and pull the trigger.': News
: Desert Island Discs
Lucy Irvine has experienced the reality of life on a desert island, although for her year long sojourn she did have a companion. In conversation with ROY PLOMLEY , she talks about the terrible problems she encountered, particularly the lack of water, and she chooses the eight records she would take if she were to be castaway again.Producer DEREK DRESCHER
Contributors
: The Anatomy of a Retirement
Harry Soan continues his reflections on his life since he gave up farming 18 years ago.Producer jane MARSHALL
BBC Birmingham
Contributors
: Good Friday
On this solemn day in the Christian Year a special service of Choral Matins and Litany comes direct from York Minster Readings: Psalm 22;Genesis 22, vv 1-18 (rsv); Lamentations of Jeremia
(Bairstow); John 18 (rsv); Benedictus (Moore); Litany (Loosemore) Assistant organist
JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY
Organist and Master of the Choristers
PHILIP MOORE
BBC Manchester
Contributors
: The Lamentations and the City
The last in a series of talks for Holy Week 5: SheffieldSpeaker The Rev Dr John Vincent BBC Manchester
Contributors
: With Great Pleasure
The Rt HonDenis Healey , mp and Mrs Edna Healey present a selection of their favourite poetry and prose with Norman Rodway
It surprises many people to know how well Yeats wrote about politics and how interested he was in them. He understood politicians very well because he realised that in many ways they are like poets.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Contributors
: Natural Selection
An Egg's Eye ViewHow do chicks get out of eggs, how do snakes get into them, how do rats carry them and how does the egg cope?
Barry Paine presents a few ideas on some eggcellent strategies.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
Contributors
: The Way of the Cross
A pilgrimage and meditation for Good Friday Presented by Bernard JacksonA BBC World Service production
Contributors
: My Music
: Manuel de Falla
A portrait of the composer who embodied in his music the sensuousness and proud passion of the Spanish character, and of the humble, ascetic little man once described by Stravinsky as 'the most unpitying religious nature I have ever known'.Written and presented by Trader Faulkner with Paco Pena as Falla. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Contributors
: Time for Verse
Seven variations on the theme of love, written and presented by P. J. Kavanagh 3: Love BetrayedReaders DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Contributors
: Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Three programmes in which Molly Price-Owen , aided and abetted by literary examples, discovers how forensic science can bring a criminal to book. 3: Index LinkedThe tales that are told when the finger points to the criminal.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Contributors
: PM
with Susannah Simons and Gordon CloughContributors
: The Six O'clock News
with CLIVE ROSLIN: Going Places
Heathrow is the busiest international airport in the world. This year, 70 airlines will fly 27; million passengers in and out of Heathrow's three terminals. Many will travel on the bigger wide-bodied jets and as aircraft continue to grow, the airport must also continue to expand.Tonight Clive Jacobs and the Going Places team report on Heathrow's new Terminal 4.
Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Contributors
: News
: Pick of the Week
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer JAN TAYLOR(Repeated: Sat 10.30 am)
Contributors
: Profile
A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.: Any Questions?
The Rt HonDavid Owen , MP The Rt Hon
Gwyneth Dunwoody , mp Dr Richard Clutterbuck , writer and lecturer on political violence and Max Hastings author and journalist at Teignmouth, Devon Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Contributors
: Letter from America
by Alistair CookeContributors
- Letter from America: Ed Meese investigation 14 minutes
: Kaleidoscope
Harewood at the Opera Watching rehearsals build up towards something that is a genuine fulfilment of how one would now see the company's intentions is an intense satisfaction.Lord Harewood has been involved for nearly 30 years with the operatic lifeblood of this country, first at the Royal Opera House and as managing director of the English
National Opera-a post he will relinquish in 1985. In conversation with Rodney Milnes , he talks about his policy of staging opera; and the projected tour of the ENO.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Contributors
: A Book at Bedtime
3: A Happy Family: God of Anger, God of Love
Has the Roman Catholic Church gone soft on sin? When Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, was in the Vatican for the recent synod for penance and reconciliation, she found that hell and brimstone have gone out of fashion. In conversation with bishops and cardinals from all over the world, she looks for the reasons behind changing attitudes. Producer FRANCES GUMLEYContributors
: Into Thy Hands
A Meditation for Good FridayDr Margaret Bowker on the desolation of the time between Christ's crucifixion and his resurrection.
Contributors
: News
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