A programme for children under five: nursery rhymes, stories, and music
' More! ' cries a two-year-old, hearing a favourite nursery song issuing from the radio, more corse, mummy '-and in response, it seems, to his demand, 'Ride a Cock Horse ' does indeed come again. But sometimes the loudspeaker does not oblige, and occasionally there are tears, and it is not always easy for mother to be convincing in her explanations of the. inflexibility of the radio medium. One little boy, however, listening to Ethel Heaton 's story, ' Sand Castles,' evolved an explanation of his own. During the story he was saying ' Excuse me ' several times to the radio, and when the programme had finished he said, ' I'm afraid Sandcastle Auntie is rude!
'Sand Castles' is this week's Friday story, and we hope Daphne Oxenford will escape the charge of ill manners, especially as she also tells tomorrow's story ' The Littlest Fish,' by Catherine Morris. Today's storyteller is Dorothy Smith who reads ' Summer Friends,' by Ion Grundy , and on Wednesday and Thursday our listeners may recognise an old favourite when they hear Julia Lang tell Monica Jarrett 's tale of ' The London Express.'
. Elizabeth A. Taylor
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