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'Taught, yelled at, encouraged and licked into shape': A childhood at the BBC
Sian Phillips
Actor
On the 90th birthday of Radio Drama, Sian Phillips remembers the first time she acted for the BBC Welsh Home Service department as a child.
Radio 4 Extra celebrates Roald Dahl
Mary Kalemkerian
Today, Tuesday 13 September, is the 95th anniversary of the birth of Roald Dahl, a hugely popular and prolific writer who has been referred to as "one of the greatest story-tellers for children of the twentieth century". Dahl's memorable and magical books for children include: Charlie and the Ch...
Thinking Allowed Newsletter: 'Do you promise not to tell?'
Laurie Taylor
It's a perfectly ordinary looking box file, with the perfectly innocuous title 'Letters'. But it's not stacked alongside the other box files in my study - the ones labelled 'Tax' and 'VAT', 'Personal Documents', and 'Miscellaneous'. Instead, it has been neatly fitted into the space between the t...
The Thinking Allowed newsletter: We're all Labour here
Laurie Taylor
Editor's note: This episode of Thinking Allowed is available to download or listen to online on the Thinking Allowed podcast page. More listening options at the end of the post - PM. Even though my dad had to undergo 'instruction' by a priest before he was allowed to marry my Catholic mother ...
The fate of children's radio
Roger Bolton
I was drifting in and out of sleep the other day when I thought I heard the sound of Tubby the Tuba, shortly to be followed by Nelly the Elephant, and Burl Ives swallowing a fly. I waited with keen anticipation for Danny Kaye to sing 'Inchworm' or perhaps 'The Ugly Duckling'. Well we do regress...
The Silver Sword comes to Radio 4 Extra
Jane Serraillier
[L to R] Barry Letts as Joseph and Frazer Hines as Jan in the 1957 BBC serialisation of The Silver Sword The first time I saw my father's book The Silver Sword being transferred to another medium was in 1957. I was 7, and Dad took me and my older sister Helen up to Shepherd's Bush, where a b...
The Radio 4 Appeal: Contact a Family
Sally Flatman
Editor's note: last year listeners gave over £1.5 Million to the weekly Radio 4 Appeals. Here, producer Sally Flatman highlights this week's appeal, from Muriel Gray - SB Please take 5 minutes to listen to Muriel Gray talking about a wonderful charity called Contact a Family. Listeners' donatio...
