A family celebration descends into chaos.

A dark past is revealed.

Feston, a piercing new opera adapted from Thomas Winterberg's cult film.

From librettist Lee Hall, nine-time Olivia award-winning director Richard Jones,

and acclaimed composer Mark Anthony Turnich.

Feston. From the 11th to the 27th of February at the Royal Opera House.

Tickets from just £8, book now at rboh.org.com.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, right here on Talk TV.

It is, of course,

the one place to be to get the truth, the whole truth and not anything but the truth. It is, of course,

budget day right here. So like everybody else in the media, Talk TV, we'll bring you every cough and spit of it coming up after about 12.30. First, we've got Prime Minister's questions,

but we've got a few questions as well. And we want to know what your questions are as well, because we are very lucky to have Justin

Urquette Stewart here, a man that knows an awful lot about budgets and has covered many of them.

He's a man who can answer your questions, so if you have any questions for him, and you want

to know what the child care changes mean to you, you want to know what the fuel duty situation is going to be, if you know what the fuel cap is going to be, is it going to affect you, if you need to be persuaded to go back

to work, perhaps Justin can answer that question for you, but why on earth do we have a

Chancellor who needs to persuade people to go back to work? If we've got a system that makes it

better for you not to work because of the benefits that you can get or the

allowances that you can get as opposed to the actual salary or the wages that you can get,

then there is something very wrong with the economy. And by the way, welcome to all of you

who have actually turned up for work today because apparently there's about half a million

people who haven't bothered. And amongst those, we include loads and loads of civil servants, right?

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