The B.B.C. Orchestra (Section G)
(Led by Marie Wilson)
Conducted by Adrian Boult
Three Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear
Set to Music by Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Sung by John Thorn

Today marks an epoch in the history of the Children's Hour. Epochs have been marked by some thrilling things, as well as some very dull ones, but never before by anything quite so jolly and important as what is going to happen at five o'clock this afternoon - five o'clock, notice, not five-fifteen; it is as important as that.
At five o'clock, then, you are to imagine that the doors of the studio will be thrown wide open and, for the first time in their lives, Uncle Adrian, leading, and a band of his men close on his heels - men so devoted to him that he has but to flourish the baton he carries and they obey him instantly - will enter to the sound of martial music and group themselves gracefully round the microphone. At any rate, that is how it should be. What actually will happen is that Uncle Adrian (who in prosaic private life is known as Dr. Adrian Boult) and his band (otherwise the B.B.C. Orchestra, Section G) will play to you at some time and another between five and six today as captivating a little programme as you will hear even if you take the loud-speaker to bed with you every night for a month.