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Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
' I suppose she was ill,' remarked a small girl after listening to Dorothy Edwards story, My Naughty Little Sister wasn't well,' 'because she fell in rhe water and got her knickers wet, her vest wet, her peoticoat and her dress wet.' ' The incident of rhe falling in the water had been told weeks before! ' wrote her mother, ' but imagine my surprise this week, when I took her to the doctor. After he had examined her and said what a good girl she was, she replied, " I know a story about a girl who didn't want the doctor, and the dootor showed her the thing for her throat! " '
W'ho shall say that our under fives have short memories? Or that they do not exercise their own youthful logic?
This story, and a new one about that little sister at school, will be told by Dorothy Smith on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Today and tomorrow comes Julia Lang with ' The Wooden Horse,' by Violet Statham , and ' Sheep in Snow,' by Doris Hann , while on Friday Daphne Oxenford tells Leila Berg 's ' The Tired Train.' Catherine Edwards introduces our stories and rhymes for the coming two weeks. Elizabeth A. Taylor

Contributors

Told By:
Dorothy Smith
Unknown:
Violet Statham
Unknown:
Doris Hann
Unknown:
Leila Berg

A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson and including
'Enter Tosh': Joan White describes how her second daughter arrived in this world
' Miss Yonge's Best Seller': January 1853 saw the publication of ' The Heir of Redclyffe,' a novel which was not only read in every English household at the time but was the favourite of Guardsmen, undergraduates, and officers in hospital during the Crimean War. On its one hundredth anniversary Naomi Lewis speaks about the book and its author, Charlotte M. Yonge
(Continued in next column)
' I've Been Thinking': first of a new series of talks by Minnie Pallister in which she shares with listeners her thoughts on various subjects. This month she has been thinking mainly about new starts
How Much Do We Know?:
' Chilblains,' by a skin specialist
' Cousin Jan' by Antonia Ridge. Read by the author

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Joan White
Unknown:
Minnie Pallister
Unknown:
Antonia Ridge.

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
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Last week Dr. and Mrs. Dale became very concerned about Bob's restless behaviour, and his association in business with Malcolm Reeves. Tony Coppard kept pestering Sally at her shop. Mrs. Freeman overheard one of the servants suggesting she was after Mrs. Cardew's money: so he returned to Virginia Lodge immediately The next day she went off to Paria with Sally. Alf (Mrs. Morgan's son-in-law) discovered that Dotty was working at the Vicarage. He called to see her but was unable to persuade her to return to .iim. Maud French told Mrs. Dale that Miss Pink had said she was engaged to Francis Austen : but Maud was not prepared to take this seriously.

Contributors

Script By:
Lesley Wilson
Mrs Dale:
Ellis Powell
Dr Dale:
Douglas Burbidge
Bob Dale:
Leslie Heritage
Gwen Owen:
Beryl Calder
David Owen:
Frank Partington
Sally Lane:
Alvys Maben
Mrs Freeman:
Dorothy Lane
Mrs Morgan:
Grace Allardyce
Trudi Baume:
Daphne Maddox
Malcolm Reeves:
Richard Bebb
Tony Coppard:
Ronan O'Casey
Miss Pink:
Viola Merritt
Mrs Finch:
Hester Paton Brown
Elizabeth Russell:
Jacqueline Thompson
Maud French:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Manager of the Grand Hotel:
Rupert Davies
Francis Austen:
John Kidd
Stan Skeats:
Lewis Stringer

by W. Somerset Maugham
Adapted by Peggy Wells
Cast:
Produced by John Richmond

Contributors

Unknown:
W. Somerset Maugham
Adapted By:
Peggy Wells
Produced By:
John Richmond
Bentley:
Norman Mitchell
Martha:
Anne Cullen
Mrs Culver:
Gladys Young
Barbara Fawcett:
Patricia Hilliard
John Middleton, F R c s:
Anthony Nicholls
Constance, his wife:
Margaret Lockwood
Marie-Louise Durham:
Joy Shelton
Bernard Kersal:
Roderick Lovell
Mortimer Durham:
Campbell Singer

Round the British Isles with Top of the Form

John Ellison and Robert MacDermot are the question-masters in this inter-country contest between representative teams from girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Hamilton Academy (Boys) v. Bell Baxter School, Cupar (Boys)

Contributors

Question-master:
John Ellison
Question-master:
Robert MacDermot
Producer:
Joan Clark

A series of programmes for parents about some of the different phases through which a child's mind passes as it grows up
The Nursery Age
2 — ' Real Life and Fairy Tales'
Is it wise to tell children fairy tales? How to deal with children's fears.
What to tell them about going to hospital or when the new baby comes. These are some of the question* discussed in this evening's broadcast by a group of parents with an experienced worker among young children.

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