A programme for children under five
'A long time ago,' wrote the mother of a four-and-a-half-year-old girl, ' you told a story about three bunnies going for a walk and getting very hungry but being pre- vented from eating the farmer's lettuce and carrots by a big black dog and a brown one, but eventually eating their fill from a field of dandelions. She still waits hopefully to hear it again. And the reason? 'So that she can say " So am I," with the bunnies! '
We hear very often how ardently our under-fives enter into ' their ' programme, and it is such spontaneous participation as this, unprompted and undirected, which we feel has a very special value. ' The
Three Bunnies,' by June Colbourne, will be broadcast again on Wednesday, told by Daphne Oxenford. Today and tomorrow our storyteller is Julia Lang , with ' The Little Engine was Tired, by Eileen Mathias and ' The Man with a Red Wig,' by Herbert McKay ; while Thursday and Friday bring Dorothy- Smith with 'Timothy's Bed,' by Christine Chaundler , and ' The Fairy in the Cherry Tree,' by M. G. Tapley. Catherine Edwards returns today to introduce our programmes for the coming two weeks. Elizabeth A. Taylor