Daffy-Down-Dilly
A programme of Welsh folk songs sung by Sassie Rees and Grove Park School Choir,
Wrexham
Conductor, Mabel Wilfrid-Jones
5.10 For Children of Most Ages:
' Sovereign Lords '
Five plays by Geoffrey Trease based on his book
' Seven Kings of England '
1—' Alfred :
The Shepherd of the English'
Produced by David Davis
How much do most of us know about Alfred the Great-except that rather uncertain story of the burnt cakes? Yet Alfred is at once one of the most heroic and one of the most attractive figures among our bygone kings. His adventures, whether as a small boy in Rome or a guerilla leader in the Somerset Fens, make a good opening for this new series of plays, a sequel to the author's ' Sovereign Ladies,' broadcast in Coronation Year, 1953.