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6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys

Your chance to discuss yesterday's Budget proposals and put your questions direct to the Money Box team: Louise Botting , Vincent Duggleby , Christopher Gilchrist and 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? Lines openfrom 8.0am

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Botting
Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby
Unknown:
Christopher Gilchrist
Unknown:
Philip Hardman

This week the team travels to
Leicestershire, where members of the Burbage Allotment and Gardening Association put their horticultural queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Call Me Lizzy by JOHN H. MILLER
Read by John Westbrook
Graham has a job to do, felling the huge elm tree that could fall at any moment. But Graham faces opposition - and then danger from the tree itself Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
John H. Miller
Read By:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Mitch Raper

1.55 Listening Comer Today's songs: Boys and Girls Come out to Play
2.5 Looking at Nature Amphibians: Follow the successful tadpole-rearing hints and then begin your observations. Which journeys do tadpoles prefer? Stereo (e)
2.20 Listening and Reading 8: Yannikas and Marika A Czech folk tale read by JOHNHOLUSfe)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Not What it Seems by KATHY HENDERSON (R) (e)
2.40 Real World A short course on problem-solving and decision-making, linked to BTEC's Common Skills and Core Themes 8: Celebration Practical skills - organising and implementing plans (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathy Henderson

by Anthony Walters
After years of enjoyably teaching Classics in an independent school, Tony Freeman has his dormant radical sympathies stirred by a student teacher and finds the consequences truly educative.
BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony Walters
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Tony Freeman:
Nigel Anthony
Jack:
John Jardine
David Aston:
Pearce Quigley
Headmaster:
James Tomlinson
Chairman of Governors:
Christopher Ravenscroft
Jean Freeman:
Jane Collins
Phyllis:
Linda Gardner
Geoffrey:
Robin Bowerman
Sally Devereux:
Vanessa Rosenthal
Miles Devereux:
Derek Hardy
Frank:
Christopher Larner
Lou:
Howard Ward

A series of seven programmes in which the poet George MacBeth presents poems about animals 2: Domestic Animals Readers JILL BALCON and PETER WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID

Contributors

Unknown:
George MacBeth
Readers:
Jill Balcon
Readers:
Peter Wickham
Producer:
Alec Reid

Messiaenic
Roman Catholicism and the natural world are the inspiration for much of Olivier Messiaen 's sumptuous and colourful music.
Michael Oliver profiles one of this century's greatest living composers and visits a festival of his work at the Royal Academy of Music.
Producer RACHEL YORKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Olivier Messiaen
Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
Rachel Yorke

by P. G. WODEHOUSE adapted in six episodes by RICHARD USBORNE with and 2: Sensational Theft of a Pig
Producer MARTIN FISHER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
P. G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
Richard Usborne
Producer:
Martin Fisher.
Lord Emsworth:
Richard Vernon
The Hon Galahad Threepwood:
Ian Carmichael
Beach:
Timothybateson
Ronnie Fish:
Graham Seed
Hugo Carmody:
Royce Mills
Lady Constance:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Millicent:
Wendy Murray
Sue Brown:
Susannah Fellows
Baxter:
Christopher Godwin
Pilbeam:
Roger Sloman
Restaurant manager:
Jonathan Tafler
Narrator:
Ronald Fletcher

We all deal with a file the same way.... and that's far more significant than you might think. (DIPLOMAT, UK)
The British essentially designed the bureaucratic system because they don't trust Indians. So on every file they needed counter-signatures so that one Indian could keep check on the others. Now this has become an impediment to development.
(TRADE UNIONIST, INDIA)
The Westminster system of parliamentary government and an independent civil service were two of Britain's most significant invisible exports. In the second of six programmes, Nick Clarke examines how well they served countries with traditions and problems as diverse as Barbados, Malaysia, Kenya and India - and how they had to change their spots.

Contributors

Presenter:
Nick Clarke
Producer:
Anne Sloman

The first of six programmes
He was the original 'Public Enemy No 1'.
He deserves to die and has no right to live. He is not a myth, but a reptile who deserves to be crushed.
(JUDGE LYLE, CHICAGO 1930)
Capone's parents were peaceful, hard-working Italian immigrants in New York City.
Their son Alphonse became one of America's most violent gangsters. As a boy, between fist-fights, he enjoyed listening to a street-singer and an organ-grinder performing Verdi. As a man, Al Capone still went to opera first-nights, always with several large 'guests' wearing bulging dinner-jackets. Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
FEATURE: page 85

Contributors

Writer/Presenter:
Hugh Sykes
Researcher:
Mike Woolf
Producer:
Gaynor Shutte

A special Analysis inquiry into how people's lives have changed since Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979. Which of those changes would have happened in any case; which are the direct result of her Government's policy? How do people's personal experiences match up to the recorded facts? Four programmes presented by Mary Goldring with a public opinion poll commissioned for the series.
1: The Managers
Life at the top has more creature comforts, more freedom of action, more big prizes. It has also, in the Thatcher years, seen more real misery. How much of that misery was part of a worldwide recession and how much was directly attributable to the way the Government dealt - or didn't deal - with the rising value of the pound, rising wages, rising inflation and all the other economic issues of the 80s?
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0 0 am L W)
0 INFO: page 77

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Presented By:
Mary Goldring
Producer:
David Morton

Dreams of Dublin Bay by FRANK DUNNE
Willy never liked Liverpool and always hated teaching. And he never made it as a writer. But now, at last, his ashes will be cast on his beloved Dublin Bay. Or will they?
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH

Contributors

Unknown:
Dublin Bay
Unknown:
Frank Dunne
Directed By:
Peter Kavanagh
Willie/Man:
Sean Barrett
Babs:
Pauune Delany
Angela:
Alexandra Pigg
Rob:
Paul Gregory
Ben:
Neil Caple

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