A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories and music
'Her favourite rhyme is " See Saw "
When can we have " This is the way the ladies ride "? It is my favourite.' ' Her greatest favourites are " Tinken Bells ," and "The Grand Old Jink of Hork " And so we could go on. What makes a favounte? A variety of reasons, it seems, among them. its opportunities for spontaneous and inventive play. A girl saw the possibilities of ' The Grand Old Duke ' when she asked for it on her birthday ' because Granny has promised me a drum '; a boy goosesteps up and down, ringing a very small bell, and singing ' Jingle Bells '; while another girl is sometimes worried because we do not give her time to fix her piece of string to the chair she ' drives ' to the same song. Such activities may indeed sometimes involve what amounts to a real discovery.
These ' favourite ' rhymes, and others too. will be heard again this week, sung, as usual, by Eileen Browne and George Dixon.