(17.15) The Children's Hour
Programme relayed from a ward in the Hospital for Sick Children, Great
Ormond Street
JOHNSON CLARKE (ventriloquist)
ALEC TEMPLETON (entertainer at the piano)
HELEN ALSTON (songs at the piano)
RUDY STARITA (xylophone solos)
CHILDREN'S sympathy, which is always warm for those in distress, will be stirred this afternoon by this broadcast from the ward of a children's hospital. Sitting at home in comfort, they will so easily imagine the delight of the sick children lying in Dresden's Ward, and of the children from other wards who have been brought there to enjoy the treat of a Children's Hour performance.
Poor little things, some of them have been lying there in pain, some of them are weak and listless, but you will, almost see their faces light up when they actually see the entertainers they have only heard before.
Great Ormond Street was the first hospital in London to be devoted entirely to children. When it was opened over eighty years ago it had ten beds in an old London house : today it is the most famous children's hospital in the world, with 252 beds in London and seventy-five in the country. And it has special appeal for you all because it was one of the first hospitals in which the Children's Hour endowed a cot.