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Getting Married
What's the best time of year to get married from the tax point of view? We're hoping to buy a house: should it be in our joint names? My fiance's very practical about money matters, and I'm not: have you any suggestions to help me budget sensibly? Put your questions to Renata Olins and Mavis Moulin , certified accountant. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Renata Olins
Unknown:
Mavis Moulin

Only A Matter of Time by F. L. MAYELL
' That Monday morning feeling! It is, I imagine, fairly common in all walks of life. But more so in some. No matter how much a person likes his job, there are times when he is dismayed by the thought of the week's work.'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
F. L. Mayell
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Schoolboy:
Richard Dillane
Tom Rushton:
John Rye
Mr Crocker:
Vernon Joyner
Mary Rushton:
Diana Olsson
Sam:
Nigel Lambert
Pickering:
Nicholas Dillane
Headmaster:
Manning Wilson
Nurse:
Emily Richard
Doctor:
Nigel Graham

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Learn to Sing, to Learn to Read: 1: Dr Audrey Wisbey believes that some children's reading difficulties may be due to temporary hearing problems in babyhood, and that intensive musical training can help.

2.0-2.2 News

Car Care: Molly Price-Owenlearning how to clean the air filter.

Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: Gillian Strickland with her monthly review of newly published women's magazines.

Life Down Under: Gordon Snell meets some of Australia's British immigrants.

Milk and Honey by Paul Stanton abridged in nine parts by Monica Grey
Read by Alexander John (1)
Milk and Honey is the warm and lighthearted story of a family and two donkeys: why they wanted them, where they got them, how they coped with them, and what they learnt about them. (Music: Copland's El Salon Mexico)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Audrey Wisbey
Unknown:
Molly Price-Owen
Unknown:
Gillian Strickland
Unknown:
Gordon Snell
Unknown:
Paul Stanton
Read By:
Alexander John

Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton investigates some of the lyric writers' favourite themes in popular song.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Clayton
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series. No 100: The Whistling Spy
Enigma, starring Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan How young Ned Seagoon is sent behind the Iron Curtain to sabotage the Hungarian Football Team - thus assuring a revival of Britain's prestige throughout the sporting world.
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
MAX GELWRAY , WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN Producer PETER ETON
(First b'cast in September 1954)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Harry Secombe
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Ned Seagoon
Unknown:
Max Gelwray
Unknown:
Wally Stott
Announcer:
Wallace Greenslade
Script By:
Spike Milligan
Producer:
Peter Eton
Lance Brigadier Grytpipe-thynne:
Peter Sellers
Sergeant Throat:
Spike Milligan
Ned Seagoon:
Harry Secombe
Webster Smogpule:
Peter Sellers
Eccles:
Spike Milligan
Fred Bogg:
Harry Secombe
Mr Henry Crun:
Peter Sellers
Miss Minnie Bannister:
Spike Milligan
Major Denis Bloodnok:
Peter Sellers
Senor Gonzales Mess:
Harry Secombe
Moriarty:
Spike Milligan
Bluebottle:
Peter Sellers
Two-Ton Terence O'Toole:
Wallace Greenslade

The word ' escape ' generally inspires visions of intrepid servicemen tunnelling their way out of prisoner-of-war camps. But there are other types of escape and in a series of three talks, author and journalist, John Laffin describes escapes in which he was involved.
1: Free Fall - One Performance Only
Near death in a parachute jump that went wrong. Producer MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Laffin
Producer:
Marlene Pease

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