Listings
: Prayer for the Day
With Ranchor Prime, from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.: Today
With John Humphrys , James Naughtie.7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Clive Lawton.
Contributors
: News
: Daily Service
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Love Divine); Luke 1, vv 26-31 and 39-42; The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (Gabriel's Message); Thou Who Wast Rich (Cranham).Contributors
: The Lipman Test
Rockets. The last of six programmes in which Maureen Lipman takes a sideways look at the British at play. Producer Karen WalkerContributors
: On This Day
The news of 50 years ago today. Easter Monday gale-force winds battered Britain's seaside resorts.: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Caroline Adams meets Romania's street children. Serial: Miriam Margolyes reads the first episode of Henry James 's novel The Portrait of a Lady, abridged in 20 parts by Doreen Estall. Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.ukContributors
: Money Box Live: [number removed]
With Vincent Duggleby.Lines Open from 10.00am
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: Brain of Britain
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. First Round - London and the HomeCounties. With Gavin Fuller , a library assistant from London; Ian Joy , a university technician from llford; Barry Nicholas , a chauffeur from Stoke
Poges in Buckinghamshire; and Brian Sheridan , a retired civil servant from Croydon, Surrey. Chairman
Robert Robinson. Including "Beat the Brains". Producer Richard Edis
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm
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: The Archers
Repeated from Friday: Rocco Don't Eat Greens
Ever since Mumsy took Arnold to see The Big Sleep 50 years ago, he has shared his mind with an invented character called Johnny Rocco. In Nick Pullen 's new comedy, Arnold and Rocco tell the tragic story of Arnold's love for the beautiful and heartless Deirdre.(Repeat)
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: The Afternoon Shift
Laurie Taylor with lively debate.Editor Sharon Banoff. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk
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: News
: Kaleidoscope
Lynne Walker looks behind the scenes at the London Coliseum as the ENO considers moving, and the critic Michael Billington reports on how it feels to be a director of a Pinter play.(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
Contributors
: Short Story: The Bends
By Erica Wagner , read by Saira Todd. A young American attracts the attention of a thatcher.Producer Jill Waters Repeat
Contributors
: PM
With Chris Lowe and Charlie Lee-Potter .Contributors
: The News Quiz
Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm: News
: The Archers
Debbie is unsure.Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
: The Food Programme
Simon Parkes asks if London is the restaurant capital of the world. Repeated from FridayContributors
: The Monday Play: Death of an Unimportant Pope
By Wally K Daly. Was Pope John Paul murdered and, if so, who would it have benefited? with Clifford Rose , Robert Harper , DavidMarch. Pauline Letts and Christopher Scott Director Martin Jenkins
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: Bottoms, Beaks, Bellies and Feet
Caroline Sarll's four-part celebration of our extremities.Peaches, plums and plumber's bums.
Producer Cathy Drysdale
Contributors
: Kaleidoscope
Revised repeat of 4.05pm: Book at Bedtime: The Go-Between
LP Hartley's classic story of deception and the destruction of innocence, seen through the eyes of a schoolboy who is forced to become a go-between. Abridged in ten parts by Michelene Wandor , read by John Rowe. 1: The DiaryProducer Cherry Cookson Repeat
Contributors
: The Living World: Mud Soup, Mussels and Transport Cafes
In the fifth of six classic Living Worlds, Lionel Kelleway and friends brave the icy winds of winter to join the oystercatchers and avocets as they dine out on the mud soup and mussel beds in the transport cafes of the Exe estuary.(Repeat)
Contributors
: Colvil and Soames
The Penitent. The second of Christopher Lee 's six-part story of two intelligence officers' investigation into the death of an elderly priest. Starring Amanda Redman as Alex Soames , with Dudley Sutton as Cl Arthur Guscott , and Christopher Benjamin as Henry Colvil.Producer Pete Atkin Repeat
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: News
: The Late Book: Going to Meet the Man
By James Baldwin , read in two parts by Paul Winfield. 1: When civil rights protestors refuse to stop singing, the organiser is arrested and Jessie, a deputy sheriff, interrogates him. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon RepeatContributors
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