With THE REV PATRICIA MCKEE Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
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
Will the Chancellor have managed to find the money to make all his hoped-for tax cuts? How will your take-home pay be affected? What impact will the measures have on your savings and investments?
You can put your questions direct to the Money Box team by phoning
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This week the team visits
Derby to meet members of the Ockbrook and Borrowash
Allotment Association who put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Escape Route by NORMAN SHADFORTH
Read by Martin Jarvis
' "Sometimes," said my father, "I would rather be anywhere else but here...." And then he disappeared! The art of magic went back a long way in our family....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Readings: Psalm 84: Luke 9, vv 51-62. Stereo

Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers to your queries.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within, BBC,
Broadcasting House. London WIA 1AA Producer ANDREW PARFITT

John Howard reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.

A serial in nine episodes by GARETH JONES
6: The Conjurer's Gamble
Gruffydd has failed to sell the villagers' herd at the Autumn
Drove, but Iolo has volunteered to take his cattle to England alone. Angry drovers have attacked the boy and scattered his herd.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today: Learning to Rain by SARAH MORCOM
2.5 Looking at Nature The First Warm Day with HEATHER ANGEL. Stereo
2.20 Quest: Jesus
10: The Resurrection with PAUL COPLEY as Jesus Presented by ROSEMARY HARTILL Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY. Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) In the Saddle by MURRAY KASH (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Out of an Egg (R)

Introduced by Jenni Murray Guest of the Week:
Dame Margaret Weston , soon to leave her post of Director of the Science Museum
Serial:
Stories by Women Writers (1) The Return by ELSPETH DAVIE abridged by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Joanna McCallum
'Sometimes when I think of a few of the things I gave up when I married you....'
A common enough statement, but the Gardiners' situation is by no means a common one. (Music: Hahn's Premiere Etude)
(Joanna McCallum is in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel 'at Her Majesty 's Theatre, London)
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by Jimmie Chinn

When Maisie May is finally put into a home for old professional actresses it looks as though death is now the only big event lined up for her. However, one last fling comes her way, and she grabs it with both hands.
(Stereo)

With a Poet's Eye
Kevin Crossley-Holland with more poems inspired by pictures in the Tate Gallery, London. 5: Modern Masters
Readers LIANE AUKIN , BRIAN SMITH Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

David Mamet
'The most pervasive aspect of America is that it's so damned unhappy over here, but we're smiling all the time.'
The Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of American society, David Mamet , author of Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo, talks to Nigel Andrews
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50 5.55 pm

With PAUUNE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

The sixth often programmes presented by Alexander Walker This week: Peter Sellers The radio mimic who progressed from national comic to international star via brilliant comedy creations such as Fred Kite , Dr Strangelove and Inspector Clouseau , but who eventually said of himself: 'I was quite talented once, now all I can do is fall over.' Producer WENDY CLAY

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Enjoy the 'crack' with storytellers around the country in the second of four programmes.
The Scots, the Irish, the French and the Cockney tell stones in the heart of London.
Phil Smith joins them. Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham

'It is very difficult in a mixed marriage because the couple are trying to work together against this tremendous pressure in society that is trying to force them apart.' Claire Frankel investigates the problems faced by married couples and the repercussions for their children when one partner is black and one is white.
Producer FRAN ACHESON

Shoot-out at Tombstone Gulch The funeral's on 1 April: seven coffins for the seven huge metropolitan local authorities now breathing their last.
Mary Goldring looks at the legacy they are leaving the tombstones they plan to perpetuate their memory and the relatives contesting their wills. Is local government going to be better or worse? Will rates be higher or lower? Producer PETER BROD

The Ornamental Pear Tree by HARRY BARTON. Stereo

A weekly series for those interested in adventure pursuits - in the hills, in the air, on or under water, or in the comfort of an armchair
Mike Hollingworth takes a look at new ideas and topical events. This week: Tandem Parachuting
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Presenter Christopher Bigsby Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Revised re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

A Perfect Spy (3)

National and international news, analysis and comment Presented by Alexander MacLeod (continued at 10.50*)

A statement on the Budget on behalf of the Labour Party by The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley. mp

followed by an interlude

Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories Introduced and read by SEAN BARRETT Mr Money the Millionaire The Mouse and the Treasure Miss Brick the Builder's Baby and Wet Paint