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: Today
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
Preceded by the Hymn for Good Friday
There is a green hill far away
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colville
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
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: News
: More Wrestling than Dancing
A second series of six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 1: Looking Black'Maar, Ik ben een Engelsman,' I shouted above the clamour of a lynching mob, 'and I am not a pnest, but an allergologist....'
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: Litany and Ante-Communion
from the Temple Church, LondonPrecentor
PREBENDARY W D. KENNEDY BELL Reader of the Temple
Celebrant CANON JOSEPH ROBINSON Master of the Temple
Litany: Tallis (five-part) ! Epistle (AV): Hebrews 10, ] w 1-25 ; Gradual: My song is love ; unknown (Patrick Hadley ) Gospel (av): John 19, w 1-37 Creed: Darke in F
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (A&MR 108)
Organist and Director of the Choir JOHN BIRCH
Assistant organist LAN LE GRICE
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: All Stations to the Cross
5: All ChangeIn the last Holy Week talk, Robert Foxcroft concludes the disciple's journey by way of the Cross to the Kingdom of God.
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: The Heart of the Rock
A profile of the life of Ray Howard-JonesStereo
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: Natural Selection
What's Up Doc?Armed only with carrots, Barry Paine treads carefully through the world of cotton-tails and Flemish giants on the trail of the Easter Bunny.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBCBristol
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: Funny You Should Sing That
The last of six programmes in which Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at a hundred years of British comic song-writing.Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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: Listening Corner
King Jolly's Birthday: Up to Jerusalem
Now we are going up to Jerusalem.With these words St Mark s
Gospel records the prophecy of Jesus that in Jerusalem he would die and rise again.
Rosemary Hartill , the BBC Religious Affairs
Correspondent, presents a radio portrait of the sights and sounds of Holy Week in Jerusalem. Returning to the city where Jesus faced the great crisis and climax of his ministry, she describes and reflects upon the ceremonies and celebrations which draw thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.
Producer ROGER HUTCMNGS BBC Manchester. Stereo
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: The Virgin's Lament
This is the Virgin's keen,In sorrow may you pray,
Let him who utters it this way
In reverence, day by day
Know that my son will never look away.
(translation of a medieval ballad Caioneadh na MaighdineJ A programme about religious songs from the Irish tradition, most of which centre on the Virgin Mary 's trials at Easter. Nóirin Nt Riain, herself a traditional singer who has rediscovered many of these songs, explores their history and character and describes how she has reinterpreted them for contemporary audiences. Producer KATHRYN PORTER
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
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: Micah Clarke
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1: The Messenger from the LowlandsStereo
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: Going Places
with Clive Jacobs.ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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: Story Time
A Gun for Sale (5): PM
Presented by Richard Bath and Robert Williamscontinued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55
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: In One Ear
Music by STEVE BROWNWritten by ARNOLD BROWN ,
PAUL B. DAVIES , JEREMY HARDY. HUNTER AND DOCHERTY. HELEN
MURRY. GEOFFREY PERKINS. VICKY
PILE. ROGER PLANER. SMITH AND KY AN. NICK WILTON and the producer JAMIE RIX
(Steve Brown is now appearing in outre jeans and a painted shirt)
Stereo
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: News
: Pick of the Week
with Margaret Howard Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEYStereo
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: Stop Press
Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
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: Any Questions?
John Mortimer , qc; The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp; John Cousins , GeneralSecretary of the Clearing Bank Union; and Teresa Gorman , Chairman of the Alliance of Small Firms and Self-Employed People (ASP), tackle the questions raised by an audience from Market Bosworth, Warwickshire
Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBCBristol
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: Letter from America
by Alistair CookeContributors
- Letter from America: Street crime fears 14 minutes
: Kaleidoscope
The Blue Grass StageEach spring for the past eight years, Louisville, the Kentucky city best-known for mint juleps and horse-racing, puts on a season of new plays by aspiring young dramatists. Plays by David Mamet , Marsha Norman and a clutch of subsequent Broadway successes, both critical and commercial, were first seen at the Louisville Festival.
Christopher Bigsby visits the Blue Grass State to talk to playwrights, critics and producers attending this year's festival about the current American theatre.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
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: A Book at Bedtime
The Magic Toyshop (5): A Green Hill Far Away
Music and memories from the Holy Land, with the voices of the BBC WELSH CHORUS and introduced by their conductorJohn Hugh Thomas
Producer ROBERT COLES. Stereo
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: Good Friday Meditation
Fr Hugh Lavery with some thoughts on the extravagance of Calvary.Contributors
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