11.00 : Play School

This week's programmes come from the town and the country. Story: World's End by PIPPA DYSON
Presenters Derek Griffiths with Carol Leader at World's End, Chelsea, and Delia Morgan at Wistanstow, Shropshire,

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11.25 : Closedown

16.25 : Easter Matinee: The Nun's Story

The feature film starring
Audrey Hepburn with Peter Finch
Edith Evans , Peggy Ashcroft
A young Belgian girl, Gabrielle, enters a convent and is given the name Sister Luke. She finds her period of training increasingly difficult, for her intelligence and independent spirit make the principle of unquestioning obedience particularly hard to observe.
This moving film version of Kathryn C. Hulme 's best-seller gave Audrey Hepburn one of the finest roles of her career: her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Screenplay by ROBERT ANDERSON Produced by HENRY BLANKE
Directed by FRED ZINNEMANN Films: page 19

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18.50 : Snooker

Frame of the Day
DAVID viNE introduces an outstanding frame, together with the latest news and comment from the World Championship in Sheffield.
Lighting JOHN CROWTHEm Producer NICK HUNTER

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19.15 : News and Sport

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

19.30 : Verdi and the Voice

starring
Peter Glossop
Narrated and conducted by Bernard Keeffe
Opera Month continues with this informal workshop-style programme which tells the story of Giuseppe Verdi 's superb mastery of vocal expression, of how his soaring melodies perfectly match the quality of the human voice.
As well as examining soprano and tenor roles, BERNARD KEEFFE concentrates in particular on Verdi's writing for baritone. Previously little used, Verdi was one of the first to realise the true musical and dramatic potential of the middle-range male voice, a quality he fully exploited in such powerful roles as Rigoletto, lago and Falstaff.
The programme also includes the famous finale to Act 2 of Ballo in Maschera (a grisly midnight setting on Gallows Hill) where soprano, tenor and baritone join in one of the most masterful operatic scenes ever written, with Milia Andrew (soprano) Henry Howell (tenor) and the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS
Sound DEREK MILLER-TIMMINI Lighting clive THOMAS Designer AUSTIN RUDDY
Producer KENNETH corden

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20.30 : Rhoda

A new series of comedy films starring with Two Little Words:
Marriage Counsellor
Is your marriage heading for the rocks? Well, go get help from an expert. Rhoda and Joe do just that - and then they know they've got problems!

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20.55 : Penny Whistles of Robert Louis Stevenson

A Musical Evening with and ' Penny Whistles' was an early title for R.L.S.'s children's poems eventually published as A Child's Garden of Verses. ' These are rhymes, jingles; I would just as soon call 'em " rhymes for children " as anything else.'
In the Stevensons' Edinburgh home Louis sings musical settings of the 'jingles' and reminisces with his father Thomas about his childhood. Thomas tells his guests stories of lighthouses he has built and the eccentrics they met, some of whom later appeared in Louis' novels.
7 wish that I could sing like you A song which lingers long and true
So if these rhymes should catch your ear
Please sing them for my friends to hear
MIKE MARAN has done just that.
Music composed by MIKE MARAN and arranged by MICHAEL GIBBS Script by MARAN and SHEPPARD
Lighting BOB GELL. Sound ROGER GUEST Script editor ROGER GREGORY Designer IAN ASHURST
Director DAVID ROSE . BBC Birmingham

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22.00 : International Show Jumping

from Hickstead
The Embassy Grand Prix
Highlights of the first major event of the European outdoor season contested by riders of seven nations this afternoon at the All England Jumping Club. Introduced by RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS and ANN MOORE
Producer FRED VINER

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22.35 : News on 2

Weather

22.40 : The Light of Experience

The Last of eight programmes
Experiences of joy, sorrow, bereavement, doubt - or inner moments of truth that may defy rational explanation. In these programmes people are invited to give first-hand accounts of something that has real personal significance for them.
Awkward Father, Awkward Son Edward Blishen 's relationship with his father was - in his words -' spectacularly bad'. The constant war of his adolescence filled him with guilt. But in taking on the painful challenge of writing a book about his father he discovered that the old war between them was over.
Producer INGRID DUFFELL
Series producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY
Book (same title), 13.00, from bookshop,

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22.55 : Snooker

The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
Tonight PERRIE MANS , the South African who has established himself as the finest potter in the world, and the Hurricane ' himself ALEX HIGGINS play their opening matches for the premier title in snooker and the biggest purse ever in the history of the game, £ 35,500.
DAVID VINE introduces highlights from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON
Producer NICK HUNTER
RICHARD TILLING , KEITH PHILLIPS

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23.45 : Closedown

John Westbrook reads Ceremony by ALAN BROWN-JOHN

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