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Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time

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Children's Hour: Once Upon A Time

Sandy Chalmers celebrates the long-running BBC institution.

Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time: Series 2

Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time: Series 2: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time, Series 2, Episode 5

Featuring Storytime: The Nightingale and Toytown: Dreadful Doings in Ark Street.

Sandy Chalmers remembers the famous BBC institution, including Storytime: The Nightingale and Toytown: Dreadful Doings in Ark Street.

Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:

Storytime: The Nightingale. One of Hans Christian Andersen's loveliest fairy tales translated by KP Keigwin and read by Children's Hour's very own beloved Uncle David - David Davis. From 1968.

Toytown Plays: Dreadful Doings in Ark Street by SG Hulme Beaman. Mr Growser's pipes are blocked, but how much help can he expect from Larry the Lamb and Dennis the Dachshund? With Derek McCulloch, Peter Claughton, Preston Lockwood, John Glyn-Jones, Felix Felton, Charles Maunsell, Wilfred Babbage and Norman Shelley. From 1962.

Produced by Peter Reed.

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