6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
John Timpson
With MARGARET HOWARD Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV MICHAEL MEECH and SISTER PAULA
7.8, 8.0 Today's News
Read bv PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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Saving and Investment
The new budget has left the money market in a state of flux and hung a question mark over conventional methods of saving. What difference has the raising of the Minimum Lending Rate made? How will the increased rate of VAT affect you. and is there anything vou can do about it? Do lower rates of tax automatically mean more money in your pocket, and if so. how can you make it last?
Mavis Moullin , certified accountant and tax specialist- and John Davis , City Editor of The Observer answer your questions. In the chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting selected and presented by Bob Langley
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 71; The Lord is King! lift up thy voice
(BBC HB 26); Psalm 97; Matthew 13. vv 24-35 (AV); Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327)
The Stone
Written and read by Robert Rietty
Better Days, Better Knights by STANLEY EVELING
This is a story of long, long ago when the occasional dragon still stalked the land; and an old Knight could find time to sit by a river bank and talk to an attractive Water Sprite.
Directed by joiin TYDEMAN
Story: The New Arrival by LAWRENCE JAMES
Presenters Sue Cook and Bill Breckon
News, views and advice for consumers
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Celestial Bodies by Baker Street: TONY BARNFIELD views the London Planetarium in its 21st Anniversary Year.
Reading Your Letters.
In Training: ANN HEYNO joins a young policeman in the first days of his new job.
A Plain Woman's Guide ... to the Director of Public Prosecutions, as explained bv JACK CROSS-LEY, Home Editor of The Observer. Bel Ria (5)
A look at forthcoming drama
Live from the House of Commons
by GEORGE MEREDITH adapted for radio in seven parts by D.G. BRIDSON with James Aubrey Sebastian Shaw
Anthony Newlandi Maev Alexander and Gwen Watford
7: Ending at the Palace
The peaceful Isle of Wight is the setting for the final showdown between Squire Boltham and his hated son-in-law Richmond Roy. For Harry it means the end of cherished dreams and the beginning of a new life.
Directed by JOHN CARDY
(Given Watford is in 'Bodies' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
4.30 Announcements
Augustus Carp Esq (2)
Presented by
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
Prunella Gee
Brian Johnston Henry Livings and Arthur Marshall are quizzed on sayings funny, and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
' The Devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purposes.' (SHAW) 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
Four famous libel cases which, in their different ways, made legal history. 3: When Christ Came to Court
Written and compiled by DANIEL FARSON
In April 1932, the medium Mrs Meurig Morris took the Daily Mail to court for libel. The Daily Mail had suggested that her possession by the anonymous spirit of a major Christian theologian was fraudulent....
Directed by AKTON GILL
(Richard Leech is in ' Whose Life is it Anyway?' at the Savon Theatre, London)
Last year an American doctor, asked to investigate violent behaviour in a group of sailors, discovered changes in the concentration of neurotransmitters - the body's chemical messengers - in the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Peter Evans examines recent research into the chemistry of aggression. Producer GEOFF OBERAN
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
starring Ronnie Barker also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yatei with Gordon Langford at the piano Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(First broadcast in 1972)
Mr Norris Changes Train* (7) long wave only
Ions wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
