Thursday26 January 2012
My sister and I used to get up early on a Sunday morning to listen to the children’s request session on 2YA or National Radio as it is called now.
I never like the stories about Sparkey. Sparkey and the Talking Train, Sparkey and the talking Piano Poor Sparkey, no one believed him when he said that the train was talking to him. Telling him that the right front wheel was loose. And the one about the Selfish Giant, I never liked the t one either, even when I heard it as an adult. Give me Diana and the Golden Apple. With her childhood sweetheart Milanyon, winning the race and her hand in marriage. Or Gerald Mcboingboing. And you really must look at this link; it has the original cartoon story. I didn’t know until I found it on YouTube that it was written by Dr Seuss.
I could go on and on and on about the stories that I loved as a child. Then when I was grown up I rediscovered the programme, but the stories had changed; now they were NZ based and the presenter was the multitalented Dick Weir.
Back in the late 60’s and with no TV we would listen to National Radio in the evening, to series like The Day of the Triffids, and an omnibus of a weekday afternoon programme called The Archers. Set in the fictitious town of Ambridge this was an early soap.
Talking of soap, I had a lot of time off school as a kid and would listen to Dr Paul, and Portia Faces Life, radio programmes that were sponsored by soap companies like Rinso and Persil. Ditties, such as the original Persil Washes Whiter or Somebody’s Mum haven’t been using Rinso.
Then there was the toothpaste sponsored evening radio programmes, Life with Dexter, a bumbling man who got up to all sorts of silly exploits.
But wait as the old saying goes, there’s more.
But not tonight
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