Listeners' photos at 5pm
At 5pm I was in my office at home doing the final corrections to an autobiography we are publishing (in print and on the Internet) written in 1947 by a wonderful woman, Kathleen Taylor Smith, who had just spent 14 months in post-war Cairo, where there was a campaign to get rid of the British and the troops were spat at and bombed. She was full of compassion and empathised with the non-violent Egyptians, saying at one point if she had been equally poverty-stricken she would have spat too. She was very moved by the plight of the miserable working horses, donkeys and mules she encountered in Egypt and dedicated her life to bettering their conditions through the Brooke Hospital for Animals. Her life is a an example of tolerance that all sides in the Middle East and Europe could well follow nowadays