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We like the familiar

RADIO. It seems to have been a week-end of anniversaries. First the 21st birthday of "In Town Tonight," then the 1,0t/Oth performance of "The Archers." Does that indicate that we are fond of hearing the same kind of programme over and over again? 1 think we do like to know that at a set time we will hear such and such a favourite programme, even if the skies should fall.
The Children's Hour surely must he one of the programmes with the longest tradition behind it: and how happily they revive old programme after old programme, certain of delighted audiences S. G. Hulme Beaman's "Toy
Town" stories never get stale, packed as they are with deathless characters. "Larry the Lamb" and "Denis the Dachshund" are the two delightful animals at the bottom of most of the "goings-on" in "Toy Town." In fact, "Denis" has become so much a household friend, with his odd German inversions, that the other day, when listening to Ludwig Koch in "The Language of the Animals," 1 thought the two programmes had got mixed. What a lovely "Denis" Ludwig Koch would make !
Another old Children's Hour
favourite is Martin Armstrong's "Said the Cat to the Dog." We have heard this series of plays before, but that in no war. detracts from the enjoyment of them. "Monts," the cat Iwcindcrfults played by Vivienne Chattertona and "Peckham," the dog (equally delightfully played by Stephen Jack), have some very shrewd judgments to pass on their human family and all humans in general.
1 his week they were assisted by
"Mrs. Kerry," a cow, but she is, perhaps, a hit toisanuch of a chatterbox and just a weeny bit too "Oirish" for our liking. I mention her specially because she is played by another of those versatile radio actresses. Mary ()Tamil. It's a far cry from her acting a cow to being the energetic Hilda Tablet in the latest of Henry Reed's witty Third Programme diversion s, "Emily Butter."
I was looking forward immensely to hearing Hilda's much-publicised opera. Unfortunately, a slight indisposition prevented me, and I only hope that there will soon be a repeat, Joan Newton




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