December

Stool of Repentance
The Glindon family plays The Stool of Repentance - a chance for in-jokes, amusing insults and minor grievances to be got off the chest.

Play It Again Ma'am
Geoff, a fervent royalist, composed a march for the Queen Mother by humming into tape recorders, and keeping time on pots and pans

Wedge House
Alan Jones visits Peter and Judy McBride on the island of Great Cumbrae to find out what it's like to live in Britain's narrowest house.

Water Sports
Dave Patterson remembers an unusual boyhood sport...

The Early Births
Having children can be anything but plain sailing as Jane Croad and David Protheroe - their two daughters were born only 37 weeks apart..

DIY Cribs
Ron Mulroy owns up to the trials and tribulations of his obsession for making Christmas cribs over the past 30-odd years... parrots and all

All Steamed Up
George Tribe has been interested in steam engines since he was knee high.

More Typos
Typographical errors continue to bring the gift of harmless amusement to Home Truths listeners...

Forty Firemen
John Turner needs help to get him out of an alliterative maze in which he has wandered helplessly for years and years...

Daughter & Co.
Could you work with your mum? Sally Halon and her mother, Estelle Hakim, have got it sorted.

Typos
Humo Streth listeners warm to the simple typing error

Fowl Habits
Of sneezing monks, rubber chickens, and the great hereafter

Suicide and Silence
Sally was 12 when her mother killed herself - no-one would speak about what had happened

Fighting Back
How Maggie Gee turned the tables on anti-social behaviour

Sheepfrog?
Listener catches candid shot of dog showing a beastly sheep who's boss