XFool wrote:After 'Listen with Mother' ?
Ahhh..... sorry ..... a severe attack of nostalgia
At 1.45pm my sister and I would be placed on our potties in front of the huge pre-war wooden-cased radio whose dial had meaningless but evocative stations like Hilversum and Droitwich.
Then:
bim be bum
bim be bum
bim be bum
bim be bum
bim bim
and the motherly reassuring voice of Daphne Oxenford when about to tell The Story: "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin"
It was followed at 2.00 pm by (I think) Mrs Dale's Diary (she who was always "rather worried about Jim..." )