with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Dressmaking
How can I adjust a pattern to fit me rather than the model in the picture? What useful gadgets should I look for in a new sewing machine? How can I help my children to start dressmaking?
Betty Foster , fashion and sewing consultant, joins
Barbara Myers to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI
The Fox's Tongue by MILDRED SPRAGG
Read by Ian McElhinney Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
Jesus Cures a Leper
NEM, p 5; Immortal love (EH 408); Wash me thoroughly (Wesley); Mark 1, vv 40-45; Thine arm, 0 Lord, in days of old (BBC HB 382) long wave only
English Toys by MARGARET CRANE
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Does each species of plant and animal in the world have a unique number of chromosomes?
Peter Ferns , Malcolm Coe and Mike Stoddart discuss some of your more general natural history queries.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
with Patti Coldwell
David Tench tackles your legal problems. This week: house buying and selling.
by GUY JENKIN and JON CANTER
Happiness.... is a career in advertising starring and and the voices of JOSS ACKLAND ,
MIRIAM MARGOLYES , JAMES GRIFFITHS , JOHN SHRAPNEL, IMELDA
STAUNTON and DAVID TATE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Gillian Reynolds including
The Ethnic Minority Interpreting Service:
DOREEN TAYLOR reports on a new scheme to provide interpreters for the Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and Chinese speaking communities in and around Edinburgh.
A Little Fear (5) long wave only
After 600 years, the English are returning in strength to Aquitaine, as tourists rather than invaders. But the scenes, memories and judgments of the Hundred Years' War remain, as Andrew Joynes discovered last summer.
j Presented by Gordon Clough ,
Robert Williams and Valerie
' Singleton
The Chancellor's speech direct from the House of Commons with expert comment throughout the afternoon.
3.30* The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson , mp
In the House of Commons the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent Brian Curtois
In the PM Budget studio The Rt Hon Edward du Cann , mp
The Rt Hon John Smith , mp
Alan Beith , mp
Sir Adrian Cadbury Chairman of Cadbury
Schweppes Alan Tuffin , General
Secretary of the Umon of Communication Workers Roger Nightingale of the stockbrokers Hoare Govett Vincent Duggleby of The Financial World Tonight Plus reaction from the public and from those most affected. long wave only
(The full speech can be heard on VHF)
0 FEATURE: page 3
with PETER DONALDSON followed by further discussion of the Budget proposals, with contributions
I from
Sir Terence Beckett of the CBI and The Rt Hon Len Murray of the TUC
6.25* Financial Report
6.30* A round-up of the rest of the day's news
Editors JENNY ABRAMSKY MARTIN COX and IAN MITCHELL
A PM and BBC Radio News production
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer JULIAN BROWN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Reporter
Michael Robinson
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
A radio portrait of the popular novelist and critic, Hugh Walpole
(1884-1941), author of The Herries Chronicle,
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill and The Old Ladies
Compiled by PETER MELLORS and introduced by Sir Rupert Hart Davis with and Directed by PIERS I'LOWRIGHT
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THFNA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on[number removed]8.30-10.0 pm. Handbook of aids and Publications, [address removed].
A series of five programmes of recollections of working-class childhood 60 years and more ago, selected from oral history collections through Britain by Stephen Humphries. Music arranged and performed by Sandra Kerr , additional recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives. 3:Play
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer RICHARD DUNN
The Lost
Stradivarius (2)
The Budget:
' news, comment and analysis
10.40* The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon
Nigel Lawson , mp, for the Government long wave only from 11.0
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12.23 12.28 * am The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
(Details: Sat 12.23* am)
