An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and TIM FINNEY

A meditation for the beginning of a new day
Presented by BRIAN wilson BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Diana Goodman
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With MICHAEL PREST
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

with David Symonds

continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer FRAN ACHESON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)

Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities in this week's news.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

Presented by Louise Botting This week:
How the Budget Affects You
How far has the Chancellor been able to fulfil expectations of a tax-cutting budget?
The Money Box team analyses and explains the practical impact of the Budget proposals on your personal finances, and assesses possible changes in the savings and investment markets.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

An opportunity to hear again the series of Holy Week talks given by Robert Koxcrott , who was terminally ill with cancer at the time he gave them and who died on New Year's Day Just the Ticket
Producer DAVID WINTER (R)

for Monday in Holy Week from the Chapel of Lambeth Palace conducted by The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev and Rt Hon Robert Runcie Ride on, ride on in majesty
(BBC HB 89); 0 come everyone that thirsteth (Mendelssohn); Matthew 21, vv 10-17: A day of conflict; My song is love unknown (bp 62). Stereo

Brian Johnston visits Newport on the Isle of Wight. On the River Medina, it's the commercial capital of the island. Carisbrooke Castle is an important feature of the town and Parkhurst Prison is nearby. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Presented by D. J. Enright Readers JUNE BARRIE and PATRICK ROMER
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

The only national radio programme for consumers
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor PAT TAYLOR

A series of unguarded observations by MICHAEL FRAYN Producer
PETE ATKIN Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
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Presented by John Sergeant with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS

WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly and the Winsome Witch Stories by SARAH MORCOM
1: King Jolly Goes Shopping Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)

A World Tonight Special Report More than five years have passed since the disappearance of the Derbyshire, a 166,000-ton British combination carrier which was lost in a tropical storm in the Pacific.
No distress signal was heard. No wreckage was found. There were 44 people on board. None survived. Relatives still don't know exactly how - or why - they died. There has never been a public inquiry.
Only now, because of the persistent detective work of one man, a marine salvage investigator who lost a son, is the tragedy being more vigorously probed.
Reporter Larry Harris Producer FRANK SMITH (R)

The first of five programmes
The Great British Enthusiast is alive and well and dotty as ever. Allan Smith visited five groups of assorted devotees to find out what spurs them on. The Chelsea Cruisers
On the last Saturday of every month besotted custom-car freaks parade their chrome-encrusted masterpieces around the streets of south London. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM (R)

Maigret's Special Murder by GEORGES SIMENON. Stereo

After Abolition
On 1 April the six Metropolitan Counties and the GLC will be abolished. Paul Allen looks at some of the problems arts organisations will face and presents a discussion with politicians, administrators and artists.

Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFiFM5.50-5.55pm

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

[Starring] Tim Brooke-Taylor with Glyn Houston, Eve Karpf, John Graham, Jon Glover and Nell Brennan.
To Colin Luscombe, books are everything and television is nothing... a haunted fish-tank... a repertory company in an iron lung. That is, until he's asked to host a TV book show...
Written by Andrew Palmer
(Stereo)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

(Revised broadcast of Saturday at
7.15am)

Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Mr Alfred , MA
The Writing on the Wall by GEORGE FRIEL adapted for radio by DAVID CAMPBELL and CAROL SHARP
'An exile in his own country, condemned to go on waiting at the bus stop till a hearse came along. A heavy smoker, a hardened drinker, Mister Alfred missed a lot. But no one would miss him....'
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo

Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

A Perfect Spy abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Written and read by John le Carre (6)

Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON

followed by an interlude