A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes stories, and music
There is a certain small boy for whom all bus drivers are 'Charlie,' and a little girl who every day on her way to school 'catches Charlie's Big Red Bus at the bottom of the lane.'
Through such instances as these we are constantly made aware of how our storie. become related to rhe daily experiences of our young listeners-how everyday living is constantly being looked at through rhe stories, and the stories held up against the mirror of life. ' Dear lady on the wireless,' wrote a mother at the dictation of her four-and-a-half-year-old son, * I liked the story of the Big Red Bus. My grandad has a lot of buses-blue-not red. I like double deckers best because I sit upstairs at t.he back. I have seen them washing the buses. They stand on a ladder and have a big brush and some water just like in the story.' Julia Lang re-tells this story -by Jean Sutcliffe today and tomorrow. On Wednesday comes Dorothy Smith with ' The Old Haycart,' by Mary Cockett , followed on Thursday and Friday by Daphne Oxenford with ' The Family Wanted a Holiday, 'by Elizabeth Coleman.
Elizabeth A. Taylor