with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to discuss yesterday's Budget proposals with the Money Box team:
Louise Botting
Vincent Duggleby
Christopher Gilchrist Philip Hardman
How will the tax changes affect your take-home pay? What should you do about your savings and investments? What action is needed before the end of the tax year on 5 April? You can put your questions direct to the Money Box team by phoning [number removed].
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Victor by ELIZABETH EVANS Read by David March
The Cure of the Paralytic nem, p 1; 0 thou from whom all goodness flows (EH 85): Psalm 1: Mark 2, vv 1-12; Son of the Lord most high (bp 76) long wave only
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The last of six talks in which Harry Soan looks back at his youth.
6: The Way of Books
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham long wave only
Presenter John Howard
Presenter Sir Robin Day !
with Gillian Reynolds Guest of the Week: Lady Rendlesham,
Managing Director of London's Saint Laurent Rive Gauche shops. A Little Fear by PATRICIA WRIGHTSON abridged in six parts by JACK SINGLETON
Read by MADGE RYAN (6) long wave only
Marie by BRIAN MCAVERA with If the date were 1984
Marie's decision might seem easy, but it is 1968 and the place is Belfast. She is 29, she has a good job and neither of the men in her life really feel right, but is independence possible or even what she wants?
Directed by PENNY GOLD BBC Northern Ireland
Authorised Versions
John Mole presents some poetic variations on biblical stories and themes.
4. Didn't It Rain
Readers Jill Balcon and Gary Watson
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Abroad Thoughts from Home
Dr Rob Buckman , on a flight from Los Angeles to see his mother-in-law in South Africa, ponders the unusual similarities, and differences between the two continents. (Revised repeat)
The Marsh Lions (2)
with Robert Williams and Richard Bath
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
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(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The first of eight programmes in which Tom Vernon rides his bicycle from Exeter to Edinburgh, with an eye for the countryside and an ear for the people. 1: The Road to
Windwhistle Hill
Topsham to Montacute Producer JENNY DE YONG
The first of a new series of six programmes. Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Brussels or Bust
It's crisis time in Brussels again but whatever the outcome of next week's summit, it is unlikely that the European Community will fall apart. Wrangling over farmers and British
(or German) contributions to the budget is less important than the cement which holds the EEC together.
Mary Goldring sets out the reasons why countries stay in the Community despite the unpleasantness and frustration.
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)
Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Lost
Stradivarius (3)
The Budget
10.40* The
Rt Hon
Roy Hattersley , mp for the Opposition
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12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop
Takeaway Service