with Susan Denny
English Regions: see column 5
9.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by MAURICE O'SULLIVAN (2)
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
4: OperaticElopers
Nigel Douglas looks at some of the predicaments of operatic lovers. (Shortened repeat)
NEM, p 42; Lord of mercy (BBC HB 295); Psaim 84; I Corinthians 15, vv 12-28 (RSV); The wise (BBC HB 370)
Mrs Broadbent 's Hats by EILEEN BATTYE
Read by Margot Boyd
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
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)
Story: Young Hedgehog Changes his Mind by VERA RUSHBROOKE
(Repeated from Sunday)
Twilight for the Gods (7)
Presented by Brian Widlake
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
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Patric Dickinson Poems read by SEAN BARRETT
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Part 1: as Radio 3
Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Christopher Matthew
Douglas Stuart reporting
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)
A High Wind in Jamaica
12: Captain Jonsen's Ruse
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
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude