News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV IAN OGILVY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Spring Gardening
Success at gardening is not just a matter of ' green fingers '. It comes from getting a number of important factors right-the temperature of the soil, the depth of planting, correct watering and manuring, and in keeping the garden free from pests and diseases. If you'd like advice on a practical problem, or ideas on what's new in varieties of vegetables and flowers, or the latest information on gadgets and equipment, you can call Frances Perry and Peter Robin son. Principal of Capel Institute of Horticulture. Jill Burridge is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting. selected and presented by Francis Matthews
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, page 102; The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 100; Luke 21, v 29 to 22, v 6 (AV); Son of God, eternal saviour (BBC HB 377)
A Quiet Naked Sunday by VIRGINIA S. NEWLIN Read by Sally Mates
' The plane was pulling a long banner that said: " Come to the Suntannial at Grizzly Beach. Wear your birthday suit." Right then I decided to go.'
by Nigel Bellairs
with George Cole as Lemming
Lemming lives a dreary 9 to 5 existence working as a clerk. But today is a special day - he has a surprise in store for his employers - .
'I've been thinking what an extraordinary business this all is. This time yesterday I didn't know anything about it. And just to imagine... all these people... they'll all be here again on Monday morning. But not me.'
A series of six programmes ' I was so crazed for biscuits that I've been known to get up at three o'clock in the morning, go to the biscuit tin and tell myself that if I ate only broken biscuits it didn't count - I have been known to break ten biscuits in the middle of the night and assure myself that I'd be thin next morning.' (MIRIAM KARLIN ) Presented by Caroline Parsons
ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Story: The Night Fightert bySHIRLEY GEE
News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Blithe Spirit: Margaret Rutherford remembered by her adoptive daughter, DAWN LANGLEY SIMMONS.
It Runs in the Family....: Huntington's Chorea is an incurable and hereditary disease. TONY VAN DEN BERGH investigates.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
A Day Away In , , . (2) DOREEN TAYLOR has been on the trail of Robbie Burns.
Kestrels In The Kitchen (7)
3.15 Questions to the Prime Minister
3.30* The Budget
Presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Denis Healey, mp, followed by the Leader of the Opposition, The Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher , mp. And in addition, the PM team with Susannah Simons in the studio, bring expert comment from among others Nicholas Goodison. Chairman of the Stock Exchange: Alan Fisher , General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees: and John Harvey-Jones , Deputy Chairman of ici, Robert Williams in the Westminster studio brings reaction to the Chancellor's Budget from all the major political parties. See page 3
5.5t Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Chairman
Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Kenneth Robinson and Miriam Margolyes endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW.
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
The reminiscences of Dostoevsky's widow, Anna Dostoevskaya , arranged for radio by JOAN BART with In 1866 Anna Snitkina became Dostoevsky's stenographer. She was 20, shy, intelligent, warm-hearted. He was 45, a widower heavily in debt, a compulsive gambler, an epileptic tormented by indecision and unhappiness. A year later they married.
' My dear husband and I were persons of quite different bent, completely dissimilar views, but we always remained ourselves, in no way echoing nor currying favour with each other.'
Narrator TIMOTHY BATESON Directed by JOHN THEOCHARis
Presented by Peter Evans and Geoff Watts
A monthy review of recent discoveries in science, medicine and technology. Producer DAVID PATERSON
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CLARE SELERIE
9.59 Weather
after the News The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The Rt Hon Denis Healeymp. , for the Government
10.15* Douglas Stuart reporting
The King of the Barbareens (2) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
