For Children of All Ages
'The Borrowers Afield' by Mary Norton
Abridged as a serial story in twelve instalments by Honor Wyatt and told by Jo
1 - 'Step by Step Climbs the Hill '
Many of you may already have met the chief characters of the story - Pod, the shoemaker, Homily, his wife, and their little girl, Arrietty. And you will know that they belong to a race called the Borrowers, very small people about as high as your father's thumb, who live entirely by borrowing from human beings...
What happened to Pod and his family after the terrible moment when Mrs. Driver wrenched back the floorboard is told in The Borrowers Afield.
(Drawing by Diana Stanley by courtesy of J.A. Dent & Sons, Ltd.)

5.15 For Children of Most Ages
'A Swarm in May'
A radio play in two parts by Felix Felton from the novel by William Mayne
1 - 'Window of the Wind'
Produced by David Davis
(Special recordings made at Canterbury by permission of the Dean and Chapter)
'Each year, on the Sunday after Ascension Day, the youngest Singing Boy had taken a candle made from the prior's beeswax to the bishop for inspection, so that the bishop could be certain that there were enough candles to carry out the Services properly ..."