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7 posts about Children on this blog
Friday 15 February 2013, 17:26
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.
Read more about 'Taught, yelled at, encouraged and licked into shape': A childhood at the BBC
Tuesday 13 September 2011, 14:05
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 Chocolate...
Thursday 21 July 2011, 17:00
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 top...
Read more about Thinking Allowed Newsletter: 'Do you promise not to tell?'
Thursday 14 July 2011, 17:30
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 in...
Read more about The Thinking Allowed newsletter: We're all Labour here
Friday 24 June 2011, 15:00
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 to...
Friday 29 April 2011, 23:10
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 black-and...
Thursday 6 May 2010, 15:37
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' donations to...
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