with Celia Grindrod BBC Manchester. Stereo

with John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
Details as Monday, plus:
7.45 ThoughtfortheDay with Fr Oliver McTernan
8.35
Yesterday in Parliament

Producer Nick Utechin
0 LINES OPEN from 8.00am

Presenter Geoff Watts Producer Peter Croasdale

The Dragon Slayer by Nora Windridge. Reader June Barrie. Producer Kate McAU BBC Bristol

Stand up and bless the Lord (Carlisle, BBC HB268)
Reading: John 4, w 43-53 Give us, Lord a new heart (B. Farrell , arr P. Inwood)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwaern, BBC HB 328)
Director of Music Merion Powell Stereo

Producer Zareer Masani

David Crystal picks the competition winners. Producer Alan Wilding

Presenter John Waite

Heavy Weather by P G Wodehouse.
Last of four episodes adapted by Richard Usborne.
With Richard Vernon Ian Carmichael.
Cheque Books at the Ready
Producer Martin Fisher Stereo (R)

with James Naughtie

with Shireen Shah and Philip Hawthorn. Stereo

with Sylvia Horn.
Serial: Count the Days by Lin Summerfield abridged in 11 parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. Reader Brenda Kaye (part 10)
(Music: Tubin's Music for Strings). Serial producer Pat McLoughlin

2.05 History Lost and Found: Australia Project And We Called England Home Stereo (R)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presenters Simon Mayo and Susie Grant
10: Home Economics. Stereo

And the Band Played On Five plays to hum to. 4: Night and Day by Alison Thirkell.
With Julie T Wallace. Marguerite, an actress of large proportions, becomes suspicious when offered a fat fee for a very small part.
Director Philip Martin BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Ample opportunity
Actress Julie T Wallace reflects on how demands for the naked truth can lead to a heavy scene
R4 FOUR YEARS AGO Julie T Wallace found fame as BBCtv's statuesque She-Devil, a warts-and-all portrait of a woman wronged, which won her a nomination for a BAFTA Best Actress award and a vote of confidence from outsize women everywhere. Today she makes her radio acting debut in another role that has, she admits, personal reverberations.
Wallace plays Marguerite in Night and Day, an overweight actress who is forced to take stock when she is asked to appear naked in a film. Marguerite has often portrayed jolly fat ladies who are the butt of sexist jokes but when she's asked to strip it's time for her to confront her body. 'Playing her was quite frightening, really, a bit too near to life,' says Wallace, who herself stripped for The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and found the experience traumatic.
But whereas Marguerite's nude scene is the idea of a seedy director, her own was supervised by Philip Saville, the distinguished director of Boys from the Blackstuff. 'Yet the part that people really remember is the scene where the priest makes love to me - and I had my clothes on! It just shows that a bit of imagination is good for sex scenes - don't flash it all, dear!'
There was another outsize character for her in the Bond movie The Living Daylights - 'a Czech agent who crushed a man between her boobs!' - but since then she's appeared in everything from BBC2's Comic Strip to the new film of The Threepenny Opera. 'Sixty per cent of the female population are over size 14 yet we're still made to think that we should be petite and must get down to that all-important size eight,' she says. 'I've learnt that the important thing is to fight to be accepted for what you are.'

(David Gillard)

Thirty-Minute Theatre, 3.00pm Radio 4

with Peter Kemp and John Georgiadis on the Strauss family. Producer Michael Emery
Stereo

Presenter Carol Leonard Researcher Loma Murray Editor Rod Pounsett

Stereo
(Details as yesterday 9.15pm)

with Libby Fawbert and Hugh Sykes

and Financial Report

by John Ie Carre.
Last of seven parts adapted by Rene Basilico.
With Bernard Hepton. Surrounded by old colleagues,
George Smiley plots the end of a 'journey' that has brought a great prize within his grasp. But in the grey world of espionage, nothing is certain ...
Theme music Max Harris Producer John Fawcett Wilson.
Stereo

Reporter Robin Lustig Producer Lynne Jones Editor Gerry Northam BBC Manchester

Six talks for Lent.
4: The Mocking and the Scourging
'They spat in his face and struck him.'
Dr Marietta Higgs reflects on the public humiliation of Jesus. Producer Christine Morgan BBC Wales

Presenter Peter White Producer Thena Heshel

A woman coming to terms with love and death is at the centre of David Hare 's new film Strapless; and Christopher Cook goes on a literary pursuit. Producer Nicki Paxman. Stereo

Presenter Alexander MacLeod. Stereo

A Border Station 2: Beatrice
(Details as yesterday)

Stereo (Details Sun 3.30pm)

Deutscher Club Programmes 2 and Stereo(R)