Introduced by Jean Metcalfe and including
' Planning the Week's Meals': a weekly series of suggestions based on the food that is cheapest and most plentiful at this time of year. This week Ann Hardy speaks to listeners in the North of England
'I Grow What I Like': Aileen Nieman makes gardens in barrels
' Blackie and her Kittens,' by Edith Neider
From the point of view of the farm, cats are rat-catchers and are valued as such. The speaker talks about the family life of one particular cat on her Devon farm.
' Blind Children at School': Wyn Griffith presents recordings made at schools for the blind. (BBC recording)
The child who is born blind, or who goes blind during the first years of its life, is educated at special schools where it learns Braille but in other respects follows the usual educational curriculum.
Serial: Last Voyage'by Ann Davison. Abridged by Henry Bentinck. Read by Cecile Chevreau