Listings
: Farming Today
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends; weather.: Prayer for the Day
A meditation for the beginning ofanewday.: Today
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PAKRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Contributors
Presented By:
Brian
Redhead
Presented By:
John
Timpson
Unknown:
Roger
Pakry
Read By:
Pauline
Bushnell
: News
: Tuesday Call:[number removed]
Spring GardeningThis is the busiest time of the gardener's year, when hard work yields results.
Alan Titchmarsh is in the Tuesday Call studio with advice and ideas. Jill Burridge is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman s Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
Contributors
Unknown:
Alan
Titchmarsh
Unknown:
Jill
Burridge
: From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANIContributors
Producer:
Zareer
Masani
: All Stations to the Cross
2: We Regret to AnnounceIn the second Holy Week talk Robert Foxcroft continues the disciple's journey by way of the Cross to the Kingdom of God.
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Foxcroft
: Daily Service
NEM, p 79; Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (BBC HB 90); Surely he has born our grief (Handel); Mark 14, w 43-53, 66-72; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81) Stereo: Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Swirling Dawson Effect A comedy by PAUL WOLFSONYoung, ambitious Dr Dawson is glad to play golf with the chairman of the Hospital
Appointments Board; but when they're caught in a violent thunderstorm the effect is amazing and electrifying.
Other parts played by WILLIAM EEDLE and TREVOR NICHOLS Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo
Contributors
Comedy By:
Paul
Wolfson
Played By:
William
Eedle
Played By:
Trevor
Nichols
Directed By:
Matthew
Walters
Dr Dawson:
Nigel
Havers
Professor Swirling:
John
Barron
Goodchild:
John
Webb
Marilyn:
Tessa
Worsley
Charmers:
Colinstarkey
Andrea:
Liz
Crowther
Sister:
Anne
Jameson
: Wildlife
The discovery of thousands of bones in Derbyshire cairns, the truth or fiction of animals'crying', the thin line between life and death if eating poisonous plants and catching a late March hare.
Derek Jones investigates and Ray Goodwin poses another intriguing sound competition. Producer CAROL JEFFERSON DAVIES BBC Bristol
Contributors
Unknown:
Derek
Jones
Unknown:
Ray
Goodwin
Producer:
Carol Jefferson
Davies
: Brain of Britain 1985
First Round: Home Counties Chairman Robert Robinson Dr Joseph Angel (physician) Ian Collinson (bank official) Roy Searle (retired BA pilot) and James Caruth (civil servant)The programme includes Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by LAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Robinson
Unknown:
Dr Joseph
Angel
Unknown:
Ian
Collinson
Unknown:
Roy
Searle
Unknown:
James
Caruth
Unknown:
John P.
Wynn
: A Party Political Broadcast
by the Labour Party: Listening Corner
Today's story: King Jolly and the Robot: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Adopting Andrew: 12-year-old Andrew wants a family to call his own. JENNY CUFFE tells why and how an adoption agency is about to publicise his need for new parents.The Private World of Georgette Heyer (10)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Sue
MacGregor
Unknown:
Jenny
Cuffe
Unknown:
Georgette
Heyer
: The Afternoon Play
Home Truths for Tony by PATRICK DOCKERYTwenty-year-old Tony is so good-natured he expects everyone else to be the same. When he begins to build an extension for the Purcells he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless cruelty. Will his experiences embitter him against the world or will he manage to retain his warmth and honesty?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Patrick
Dockery
Directed By:
Susan
Hogg
Tony:
Dan
Gordon
Liz:
Trudy
Kelly
Roland:
Barry
Birch
Charles:
Christopher
Casson
Margaret:
Stella
McCusker
Hughes:
Michael
Gormley
Jimmy:
Derek
Halligan
: Pictures in Time
Dilys Powell , one of the most respected figures in the British film industry, talks toDavid Peet about her life. She recalls the world of Fleet Street in the 1920s and reflects upon her 45 years as film critic for The Sunday Times.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)
Contributors
Unknown:
Dilys
Powell
Unknown:
David
Peet
: Story Time
A Gun for Sale (2): PM
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williamscontinued on VHF/FM 5.5O-S.55
Contributors
Presented By:
Valerie
Singleton
Presented By:
Robert
Williams
: The Six O'Clock News
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report: King Street Junior
2: Re-deploymentStereo
: News
: Mysterious Messenger
David Wheeler tells the story of Eduard Schulte , wartime hero.Contributors
Unknown:
David
Wheeler
Unknown:
Eduard
Schulte
: Medicine Now
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer JULIAN BROWNContributors
Unknown:
Geoff
Watts
Producer:
Julian
Brown
: The State of the Vatican
The last of five documentary reports by Bernard Jackson The Polish Pope'He has his face on the television screens of the world-but his feet firmly planted in the Middle Ages!'
One assessment of Pope John Paul II. Others see this
Pope - the first non-Italian pontiff for 400 years - as an imaginative leader with a spiritual message he is determined to bring to a worldwide audience.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Bernard
Jackson
Unknown:
John Paul
Ii.
: In Touch
for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Ian MacRaeProducer THENA HESHELListeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]
8.30 pm-10.0
: Treasure Islands
The seventh of eight programmesJamaica: Pleasure and Pain Continuing his Caribbean journey, novelist Joseph Hone travels over the Blue
Mountains to a Victorian guest-house in Port Antonio before taking an old banana raft down the Rio Grande.
Contributors
Unknown:
Joseph
Hone
Unknown:
Rio
Grande.
: Kaleidoscope
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD BANNERMANContributors
Presented By:
Natalie
Wheen
Producer:
Richard
Bannerman
: A Book at Bedtime
The Magic Toyshop (2): The World Tonight
presented by Stephen Jessel11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Contributors
Presented By:
Stephen
Jessel
: Study on 4
From Coping to Confidence Six programmes about students with learning difficulties now moving on from special schools to FE colleges. MAUREEN GALVIN provides a context for new teaching materials about to be introduced and interviews teachers, parents and the students themselves. 1: Starting College Producer JOE REIDContributors
Unknown:
Maureen
Galvin
Producer:
Joe
Reid
: Open University
11.30 Open Forum: Students' Magazine11.50 Science: Energy Accounting
: * am News
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