Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Food for Thought - 1: JUNE ROSE talks to the wife of a low-wage earner about her food bills
Poetry on a Theme: IRENE THOMAS chooses poems about cats
Reading your Letters
The Turquoise: JEAN FRANK on the birthstone for December
Hard to Place Children: DILYS MORGAN looks at changes in attitudes to adoption Bichu the Jaguar by ALAN CAILLOU abridged by JACK SINGLETON read by Ian McKellen
(First of ten instalments)
(Serial music: excerpt from Walton's Symphony No 2)