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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 4

Episode 4

Series 2

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

Featuring The Big Pond, In Memory of Romany and Toytown: Golf - Toytown Rule.

Sandy Chalmers remembers more from the BBC favourite, including The Big Pond, In Memory of Romany and Toytown: Golf - Toytown Rule.

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: 

The Big Pond, Dabchicks in Danger by Bertha Lonsdale: The grumpy farmer is up to no good in this short play from 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Tom Harrison. 

In Memory of Romany (1944): Romany was the pseudonym of the Rev G Bramwell-Evans, a Methodist minister, who regularly took his young listeners out on radio rambles. Muriel Levy and Doris Gambell played the parts of the two children who always accompanied him. After Romany's death they visited the Margaret Bevan Open-Air Hospital in northern England, where a child's cot was endowed in his memory. One child has been hospitalised for five years. 

Toytown Plays: Golf - Toytown Rules by SG Hulme Beaman: The Mayor challenges Mr Growser to a game of golf. With Derek McCulloch, John Glyn-Jones, Peter Claughton, Felix Felton, Norman Shelley, Ivan Samson and Preston Lockwood. From 1962. 

Produced by Peter Reed.

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