A special edition for those who, through illness, are alone and indoors. See page 8
Bringing outdoors indoors: John Hillaby talks about bird-watching in bed, and Margaret Spencer-Smith about gardening
A man alone and at home: a soliloquy by Walter Webb
Help from outside: Campbell Fraser tells you about some organisations that exist to help people who are confined indoors
Ways out and about: Gladys Bird 's own story
Gladys Bird first took part in Woman's Hour in 1949 from her home in Wanstead, where she had been bedridden for nine years.
Wilfred Pickles reads a poem
Serial:
' They Do it with Mirrors' by Agatha Christie
(to be read in fourteen instalments)
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Mary Wimbush
5—' The Rumpus in the Study '
Programme introduced by Gladys Bird