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For the Younger Ones
'The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket': a series of stories by Eleanor Farjeon from her book of the same name, told by Jo.
1 -' The Old Nurse and the story of the Blue Lotus '
5.15 For Older Children
'Green Sailors, Beware!'
A new series of Green Family adventures by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
1 -' All on a Summer's Day '}
Produced by David Davis
' little while ago. I told you about a Canadian boy, called " Loopy," who fell out of the sky in an aeroplane. We were in Rag Doll (that's Uncle George's boat) and we fished him out of the sea, and as soon as he became one of the crew all sorts of things began to happen! Well, one day, when we were least expecting it, he turned up again! '-' Mary Green

Contributors

Stories By:
Eleanor Farjeon
Adventures By:
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
Produced By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Mary Green
Uncle George:
Norman Shelley
Polly the Parrot:
Norman Shelley
Mary Green:
Diana Maddox
Mark Green:
Harold Reese
Ben Green:
Glyn Dearman
Binnie Green:
Susan Condy
Francis Podsnap:
Richard George
Mr Pingleton:
Richard Williams
' Loopy ' Lomas:
Arthur Hill

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