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A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
'Please,' wrote a little girl, 'would you play "This is the way the ladies ride" for my three-and-a-half-year-old sister? This is her favourite song; the part she likes best is where the old man falls down into the ditch.'
'The great favourite,' writes the mother of a boy of three, is "This is the way the ladies ride," and he just roars with laughter at the old man and loves the music.'
Numerous similar letters suggest how popular this nursery rhyme has become among our small listeners, who love to play at riding like the ladies and the gentlemen and the farmers, and tumbling into the ditch like the old man. It is a game even baby can play, riding on mother's foot or knee.
Only occasionally do we hear of some concern for the old man, as from the two sisters who asked would we mind not singing the rhyme 'because it makes us feel sad,' but this response to the minor key of the old man's music does not seem widespread, and we hope those who ' feel sad will remember it is only a game when they hear it again in today's programme. (Elizabeth A. Taylor)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth A. Taylor

Introduced by Mary Hill
' I Married a Farmer,' by Sarah Freer
' Men in the Kitchen: Trial and Error,' by A. H. Rastmussen
' Profound Anxiety,' by Diana Noel
' Talking It Over with Marian Cutler '; an attempt to help listeners find a solution to some of their personal problems
' Family Album ' : an original serial story by Antoniia Ridge , read by the author

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Hill
Unknown:
Sarah Freer
Unknown:
A. H. Rastmussen
Unknown:
Diana Noel
Unknown:
Marian Cutler
Story By:
Antoniia Ridge

Script by Jonquil Antony
Last week Bob told the family of -his intention to emigrate to South Africa. Dr. Dale thought it a good idea but Mrs. Dale was most concerned. Bob to!d Gerda and much to his surprise she offered to marry him, but they decided it was not really a good idea. Mac offered Bob a partnership in the business if he would stay in England. Mrs. Freeman offered her flat to the Stuarts for six weeks and they moved in. Alec, Dr. Dale's brother from Canada, arrived unexpectedly.

Contributors

Script By:
Jonquil Antony

by Alec Coppel
Adapted for radio and produced by Martyn C. Webster

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec Coppel
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Polly:
Betty Baskcomb
Divisional Inspector Davidson:
Jack Hulbert
Detective Raines:
Emrys Leyshan
Martin:
Anthony Jacobs
P C Clifton:
Alan Reid
Louise Rogers:
Gabrielle Blunt
Renee La Lune:
Mavis Villlers
Samuel Diamond:
David Kossoff
Johnson:
Max Brent
Mullet:
Ronald Sidney
Bernard K Froy:
George Margo
Viscount Sorrington:
Arthur Ridley
Count Mattoni:
Roger Delgado

A slice of life presented for family listening by Peter Watson and Tony East
Swansea International Night
The under-twenty correspondent for Welsh Region introduces some of the leading lights in a novel kind of beanfeast
Something Wrong Somewhere
Hubert Phillips returns to put you to the question
I Know What I Like
The record fans wind up the argument and Michael Flanders gets his chance of a choice
You're Only Young Once
The everyday adventures of the Caldicott family
12—' The family finds that it is more blessed to give'
Script by Edward J. Mason

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Watson
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Michael Flanders
Script By:
Edward J. Mason

John Ellison and Robert MacDermot are the Question-Masters in thia inter-country contest between representative teams from girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
10—Welsh Finals
Llanelly Grammar School for Girls v.
Jones' West Monmouth School for Boys, Pontypool
Produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Robert MacDermot
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A serial in eight episodes by Francis Durbridge

[Starring] Kim Peacock and Marjorie Westbury

Contributors

Writer:
Francis Durbridge
Production:
Martyn C. Webster
Paul Temple:
Kim Peacock
Steve:
Marjorie Westbury
Louis Franz:
Olaf Olsen
Philip Droste:
Roger Delgado
Bill McCall:
Tommy Duggan
Marian Faber:
Susan Buret
Terry Palmer:
Peter Coke
Roger Shelly:
Richard Hurndall
Charlie:
Michael Harding

Light Programme

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