With THE REV VALERIE WATSON Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45 Business News with PETER DAY
7 00, 8.00 Today's News
7.25, 8.25 Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
8.50 Letters
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Your chance to discuss yesterday's Budget with the Money Box team: Louise Botting ,
Vincent Duggleby ,
Christopher Gilchrist and Philip Hardman.
The Chancellor has had to balance the problems of inflation against any tax cuts. What impact will the measures have on your savings and investments? How will your take-home pay be affected?
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This week the team visits
Coventry, where members of the Massey Ferguson
Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
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Per Ominy Ah by EOGHAN OTUAIRISC.
Read by Brid Brennan.
Sunday evening. Time for
Benediction. Or for Mass. Or for Devotions. Something like that. Something 'holy'. But she wasn't feeling holy. Not at all. Quite the opposite, in fact. Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM p 84; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81); If ye love me (Tallis); Mark 14, vv 27-42; Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC HB 135) Stereo

Nobody gets it right all the time, but for those at the top, mistakes can be expensive. In this five-part series,
John Humphrys talks to successful people who have weathered major storms in their careers. Would they, with hindsight, do things differently? 1: The Rt Hon David Steel , mp, who drove the Liberal Party along the rocky road to merger before abandoning the wheel. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by John Waite

This year was the longest in recorded history, as American scientists added two 'leap' seconds to their Atomic clock. It was also the year when
Access cards were launched and a giant pack of cornflakes would have cost you lip. But which year was it?
Teams from the Daily Express and the Daily Mail compete in the second heat of this knockout contest, hosted by Simon Bates. Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo

Presented by James Naughtie

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Spring at Rookery Farm. Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Consideration of news and topical issues, stylish items on lifestyle and leisure, reports on education and training. Presented by jo WHILEY. Stereo (e)
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What do women want? If Freud had been a regular listener, he'd have known the answer. Serial: Driving in the Dark (5) Presenter Ruth Wishart

by HUGH JENKINS. With and Paul, a distinguished politician whose long career has embraced many exciting and historic events, looks back to the late 40s when he first became aware of the anti-Communist witch hunt. It spread insidiously through the Actors' Equity Council, to the discredit of the hunters, the humiliation of the hunted and the shame of the famous personalities who found themselves unwillingly caught up in it. Martin Lawrence/ Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo

The first of five programmes in which George MacBeth interviews the poet
Vernon Scannell about his poetry and former life as soldier and professional boxer. Reader PHILIP voss
Producer ALEX REID. BBC Bristol

David Levy reports on the diplomatic pressures facing
President Bush in his quest for Middle-East peace, not least from the powerful voice of American Jewry.
Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester

Christopher Cook talks to the award-winning sculptor William Pye , whose special medium is water, and who follows his acclaimed water-sculpture at Gatwick Airport with pieces awaiting unveiling at London's Hammersmith
Hospital and at the Docklands. Producer NOAH RICHLER. Stereo

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 50-5. 55

including Financial Report

The Man in Black,
Edward de Souza , introduces
13 plays of horror and suspense. 9: His Last Card by NICK WARBURTON. With and Everyone enjoys being sent cards; however, Laura feels distinctly uneasy when she receives one which is unsigned but carries the cryptic message 'One day to death'.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo

Presented by Peter Day Producer STEPHEN CHILCOTT

Stereo

(Details tomorrow at 9.05am LW)

A radio portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

Margaret Forster 's new novel considers the situation of a woman whose place at the heart of the family is undermined as she grows old; and a major exhibition of 18th-century
Spanish painting is opened at the National Gallery, London. Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE. Stereo
(Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)

Appleby at Allington (3)

A statement on the Budget on behalf of the Labour Party by The Rt Hon John Smith , mp. the Shadow Chancellor.

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

FM joins at 12.10