A programme for children undeir five
Nursery rhymes, atonies, and music
I love listening to the stories, especially the ones about Charles,' wrote a four-year-old boy: Please could we hear about the Birthday Party? ' Charles was the boy for whom time hung heavy while he spent a long morning waiting to go to his friend's birthday party. At last the hour came, and with it the end of the story. But some of our listeners, like the one quoted, wanted to know about the party too, so Ruth Ainsworth has written a sequel. On Thursday we shall repeat ' The Long Morning,' and on Friday our under-fives will hear the story of ' Charles at the Party.' It was this same Charles who liked collecting things. He kept them in a ' useful bag.' This acquisitive theme touches a vital and universal interest, and more than one home, we have reason to believe, now has a ' useful bag.' But one little girl got the idea wrong. 'I cannot stop her,' wrote her mother, from collecting dirty bits of paper and oddments from out of the streets.' We hope that hearing again today, tomorrow, and on Wednesday about Charles' bag will help to put her right. Elizabeth A. Taylor