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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV JOHN CONGDON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Antiques
All that glisters isn't gold necessarily, but it could be silver, brass, pewter, tin or the glaze on a piece of possibly valuable china. David Battie. Director of Sotheby's. Belgravia and John Bly , FRSA, antique dealer and Freeman of the Gold-smiths' Company, join Sue MacGregor to give an opinion on your old oak chest and its contents. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am long wave only from 9.45

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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 long wave only

NEM, p 71; Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28); Psalm 145, vv 13-21; Matthew 4, vv 12-25 (AV); Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176)

Nightgown by RHYS DAVIES Read by Haydn Jones
' Often in the morning she skulked to the draper's on the corner and stopped to peer into the window where two wax women stood dressed in the latest fashions, smiling a pink, healthy smile.' long wave only

Partnership Limited by ELIZABETH GOWANS with and LINDA: Why is he coming round this evening?
CLIVE: Who? The boss? LINDA: Yes.
CLIVE: Don't know. Perhaps ...
LINDA: He's never come round here before.
CLIVE: Too busy counting his wife's money. That's why. Are you worried about it?
Directed by LIANE AUKIN long wave only

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Story: A Helping Hand by LAWRENCE JAMES

Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
News, views and advice for consumers.

and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Touch of the Yehudi Menuhins... FRANCES BERTHELSEN meets some miniature fiddlers.
Dordogne Diary (2): ANNETTE MASSIE recounts the events of her new life in south-west France.
It's Your Patch!: MAUREEN GALVIN reports on some controversial local environmental issues, with comments from DAVID HALL , Director of The Town and Country Planning Association. 2: Should the Pier in Clevedon, Avon, be demolished? Betty Bouncer's Love: (1) John Snagge talks to TONY BARNFIELD about the changing image of BBC Radio Announcers over the years. Chelsea Child
Written and read by ROSE GAMBLE abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN (11)
(Music: Addison's Concerto for Trumpet, Strings and Percussion)
Chelsea Child, £5.25, from bookshops long wave only

Live from Parliament Presented by Susannah Simons, Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
3.15 Questions to the Prime Minister
3.30* The Budget Presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe, MP, with his first Budget, followed by the Leader of the Opposition, The Rt Hon James Callaghan, MP.
What's in it for you? The PM team explains how much you'll gain and where you'll lose.
There'll be comment too from Alan Fisher, General Secretary of NUPE; Lord Errol, Chairman of Bowater and President of the Institute of Directors; James Morrell, of the Henley Centre for Forecasting; The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley, MP, former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection; Nicholas Goodison, Chairman of the Stock Exchange, as well as other leading figures. To help you understand what the Chancellor is proposing, the BBC's Political Editor, David Holmes, and economist Peter Hobday will be giving explanations as Sir Geoffrey speaks. A PM production
Woddis on ... The Budget: page 10
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5.55 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.

The quotations game in which Kingsley Amis Joan Bakewell Terence Frisby and Christopher Matthew are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
They laugh that win
(OTHELLO)
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by NIGEL REES
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Rptd: Thurs at 12.27 pm)

(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

A portrait of the singer Lotte Lehmann (1885-1976) compiled and presented by Carole Rosen
Before she died. Madame Lehmann recorded several interviews, and it is with these that her story is now told.

Presented by Peter Evans and Geoff Watts. A monthly review of recent discoveries in science. medicine and technology. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Presenter Paul Gambaccini Producer ANNE WINDER

AftertheNews The
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe MP. for the Government
10.15* Anthony Howard reporting

A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yates with Gordon Langford at the piano
The lines are contributed by CHRIS ALLEN , J. H. B PEEL. , ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT , PETER SPENCE and GERALD WILEY Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(First broadcast in 1971)

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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude