April 1963 highlights The BBC soap Compact was showing on this day, the twice-weekly story of life at a glossy women's magazine. It ran from January 1962 until July 1965 when it was replaced, briefly, by Park Lane, and then The Newcomers. Overkill examined the arms race, and asked whether there was any hope for a beginning of nuclear disarmament. On a lighter note, Eamonn Andrews presented This Is Your Life, and Jimmy Young hosted his music programme, The 625 Show. The 625 referred to the timeslot, not the number of lines on the screen as with BBC2's many '625' programmes a year or so later. BBC1, of course, would remain in 405 line monochrome for some time to come. The fifty minutes of children's programmes today seems rather underwhelming - a repeat of a film from Hungary, and For Deaf Children, the predecessor to Vision On, in which George Ogilvie and Julian Chagrin told some stories in mime. It was the Easter holidays this week, so the BBC showed Out of School, an opportunity to see example from BBC's schools television output. Then following the usual Welsh programmes at lunchtime, and the news, was an early example of daytime television in Living Today, which featured various cookery, gardening and fashion items. And rounding off the day's programming, Roger Delgado read from the New English Bible, some eight years before he would become television's favourite villain - The Master!
 And in Radio Times 6-12 April 1963 Price 5d
Holy Week was marked by Radio Times with the usual religious themed cover, although this one added a somewhat modernistic edge. Recognising the increasingly secular nature of the coming bank holiday, however, RT previewed the new traffic reports that the BBC Light Programme would be airing for the first time over the weekend, and continuing at the weekend throughout the summer. The item was accompanied by an image of one of the new motorways which had begun sprouting up all over Britain (right) - choked with traffic already. 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Radio Times Covers | 
