A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
*' Today,' announced a small boy of four, ' I'm going to tell you a story of a fire engine, and how it lost its bell. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.'
This little boy, says his mother, ' 'loves to be the lady in the wireless, which consists either of a large round tray held up in front of him, or of my small clothes horse covered with newspapers under which he crouches.' He invents complete Listen with Mother ' programmes, sometimes the ' stories ' in his ' 'broadcasts '-like the one referred to here-are based on those he has heard there. H;s fire-engine story was based on Ruth Simonis' story, about the great ship Empress, whose foghorn was lost and found-with bell and fire engine replacing foghorn and ship! It is this story, together with its two companion tales that Daphne Oxenford tells again on rhe last three days of this week.
Today's story, too, may provide a source of play, though perhaps of another kind. It is a new one called ' Ian and the Watch,' by Esther Provis and will be told by Dorothy Smith , as will also tomorrow's favourite tale by Dorothy D:xon about Pussy White. Elizabeth A. Taylor