for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
‛ Take this hot water bottle up to Baba in bed,' sand a mother to her four-year-old son. You take it, mum.' came the reply, ‛ I'm listening to the wireless.’ This same enthusiast for our programme, bear-in.g the tune played before it wa.s named, ran to his mother, asking ‛ What tune is it playing? ' She did not know. ' Wait a minute ' said he, I'M ask the lady.' He spoke into the wireless—‛ What tune is it, lady? ' Immediately the singer began — ‛ Here we go round the Mulberry Bush. ’ * He (thought,’ says his mother, he had been answered.' Typical belief of our under-fives that the ' lady ’ hears and sees them!
No doubt this small listener will immediately recognise this now familiar tune when be bears it in today's programme Perhaps, too, he will recall some of our stories—Herbert Mackay 's ' There goes the Pig,' or Ursula Houriihane 's three tales of the ‛ Bundle ' family— to be told by Daphne Oxenford , who is followed on Friday by Dorothy Smith with ' Monty the Mouse,’ by Jaene Dec. Lorna Pegram will introduce them all.
Elizabeth A. Taylor