TODAY’S RADIO

The Money Clinic

3PM, RADIO 4

Paul dreams of taking early retirement. His partner, Julie, doesn’t think they have enough money, and believes financial worries would make their lives miserable. In the last of an eye-opening series, Julie and

Paul discuss their money concerns with a relationship counsellor. As with the previous programmes in this series, we discover that money is only half the story.

Science Stories

3.30PM, RADIO 4 Vienna’s medical students killed women in their hundreds in mid19th-century Austria. They would come straight from autopsies to the labour ward without washing their hands, spreading puerperal fever as they went. The physician

Ignaz Semmelweis noticed this, and insisted his students washed their hands. Many of his colleagues took this as an insult and mocked him. The poor man suffered a breakdown, and died from an infection on his hand in a mental asylum. Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of the man who became known as the ‘saviour of mothers’.

New Generation Artists

4.30PM, RADIO 3 Katharina Konradi is a glamorous young opera singer, currently making a big name for herself in the concert halls of the world. Katharina is from Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, and is the first soprano from that mountainous landlocked country to have an international career. Based in Germany, she is one of the artistes performing in this concert featuring rising music stars.

Ghosts In The Machine

9PM, RADIO 4 Since the very early days of recording human voices, there have been people who swear they have heard the voices of the dead. Laurie Taylor takes us on an eerie journey into the world of auditory illusions.

Katharina Konradi (4.30pm, R3)