Monday is Useful Box Day
In the story chair is Edna Dore who tells the story The Dog Kennel by G. T. Cross
This week's presenters are Carole Ward, Brian Cant

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
Weather
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A smooth-talking stranger arrives in town and having gained the confidence of almost everyone carries out an ingenious plan to steal a valuable gold shipment
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Are you afraid of spiders? Do open spaces terrify you? Would you panic if the lift stopped between floors? What do you feel about tall buildings-or pigeons? Irrational fears confine thousands of people to their homes. If they leave the house, they may suffer panic, faintness, and palpitations. Why people get phobias and what can be done to help them are among the points discussed in the programme by two psychiatrists.

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Adapted by Barry Took from the Beachcomber column of the Daily Express
A new series starring Spike Milligan
and featuring Julian Orchard, Frank Thornton, Ann Lancaster, Leon Thau, Paul McDowell, Josephine Gordon, Thelma Taylor, Bernard Jamieson

also appearing this week Margaret Nolan, Charlie Atom
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'Pain is not purely physical' (a doctor)
'The only thing I know about pain is that it hurts like hell' (a patient)
'I think that the relief of pain is what medicine is all about' (a doctor)
Pain is usually thought of as a purely physical problem, something that a pill or an injection will relieve. But new research work suggests that pain is closely connected with personality, mood, and psychology. How we think can profoundly affect how we feel. Some of the doctors in this programme believe it may be time to reconsider the place of pain relief in the order of medical priorities, and to devote more effort to understanding the problems of pain

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Introduced by Mel Oxley
A programme to help you relax - or to keep you awake with James Cameron's comments and Ian Hanson
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