Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Birth Without Tears: epidural anaesthesia takes away the pain of childbirth. So why isn't every mother-to-be offered this Option? GEORGE BAYLEY reports from a pioneering hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Salt of the Earth: In deepest Cheshire, WENDY LLOYD visits the last salt works in the world still producing natural saM by the ancient Roman method. Dear Maypole: for 25 years, JOAN ALISON 'S pen-friends have shared their good and bad times through a correspondence magazine called Maypole. Yet some of them have never even met. BBC Manchester
Abner of the Porch by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD abridged by DELIA PATON Read by John Pullen long wave only