This week we’re getting the newsletter out a bit earlier. The plus is that you get more notice of what’s in the programme, particularly helpful if you get this newsletter at work and don’t want to wait for it to arrive in the middle of the evening!

The downside is that things can change even between when we go home late on Friday and when we broadcast at Saturday lunchtime. So at Friday lunchtime we are even less certain exactly what will be in the programme.

But we are trying it a bit earlier. Let us know what you think.

In this week’s programme we will be doing something – several things – on Northern Rock. It’s the first time the government has nationalised a major High Street bank. What does it mean for savers (good), mortgage customers (bad), and shareholders (terrible)?

We are all living longer – hooray. But that means pensions are more expensive – boo. Are we in danger of throwing the pensions baby out with the murky actuarial bath water of life expectancy? And what age can a man of 65 expect to live to?

Are people in mortgage arrears losing their home unnecessarily because they, their lawyers and even judges do not know the rules lenders must follow before they reach the stage of repossession? One influential consumer representative thinks so.

And… well TBA as we say. To be announced. Find out what we run and what we don’t, by listening to Money Box on Saturday at noon and it’s repeated on Sunday at nine pm. Or you can listen when and where it suits you by downloading the podcast to play on your MP3 player. Or you can listen online. Find both through our page www.bbc.co.uk/moneybox

Best wishes,

Paul Lewis

PS Don’t forget the live preview of Money Box on BBC1 Breakfast between 8.45 and 9 on Saturday morning.

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