BBC Children's Hour

[Segilla]

Talk of WWII revives many happy memories of Children’s Hour – Uncle Mac, Uncle David, Mompty and Peckham, Ballet Shoes and so on.

That leads me to ask if anyone recalls a series about a mad professor type intent on destruction who was being pursued by someone whose assistant was a Welsh lad who was fond of saying ‘Diolchs’. The enemy always seemed to be doomed in the last episode but survived his well-deserved end
By chance I heard the Shostakovich 5th in a Third Programme broadcast and the serial’s music included two extracts from the1st movement.

An answer to this query will then leave only two others I’d like to resolve before I die.

[DracoM]

Don't remember that, but I do remember 'Counterspy', Regional Round, and David Davies eerie narration of the serial of 'The Box of Delights' - I still recall his 'the wolves are running....'

[subcontrabass]

Talk of WWII revives many happy memories of Children’s Hour – Uncle Mac, Uncle David, Mompty and Peckham, Ballet Shoes and so on.

That leads me to ask if anyone recalls a series about a mad professor type intent on destruction who was being pursued by someone whose assistant was a Welsh lad who was fond of saying ‘Diolchs’. The enemy always seemed to be doomed in the last episode but survived his well-deserved end
By chance I heard the Shostakovich 5th in a Third Programme broadcast and the serial’s music included two extracts from the1st movement.

An answer to this query will then leave only two others I’d like to resolve before I die.

Is this the one? Or possibly one of its sequels?

[Ferretfancy]

Don't remember that, but I do remember 'Counterspy', Regional Round, and David Davies eerie narration of the serial of 'The Box of Delights' - I still recall his 'the wolves are running....'

The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk are still a great read. The music for the Childrens Hour adaptation was Victor Hely-Hutchinsons Carol Symphony. I'd love to hear Toytown again --- "I'm only a poor little laaaaaamb! "

[Don Petter]

The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk are still a great read. The music for the Childrens Hour adaptation was Victor Hely-Hutchinsons Carol Symphony. I'd love to hear Toytown again --- "I'm only a poor little laaaaaamb! "

Plenty of Mr Grousers here?

"You ought to be ashamed!"

[Ferretfancy]

Plenty of Mr Grousers here?

"You ought to be ashamed!"

"Be careful Don, or it may be my painful duty to take your name and address" - ( Ernest)

[Don Petter]

"Be careful Don, or it may be my painful duty to take your name and address" - ( Ernest)

Probably for misquotation. I think perhaps it was "It ought not to be allowed!"?

[mercia]

I expect you realise that Radio 4Extra is currently spending an hour each Sunday with Toytown etc. (9am and 5pm)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qm9p4/episodes/player

[Segilla]

I'm afraid not, subcontrabass as I was way beyond listening to Children's Hour in 1960.

[Ferretfancy]

Probably for misquotation. I think perhaps it was "It ought not to be allowed!"?

"Larry mein friend, that was accurately so put"
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[Don Petter]

"Larry mein friend, that was accurately so put"
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Baaah! Thank you Dennis. Typing is not easy with my little hooves, and sometimes my thinking is a little woolly.

[Mary Chambers]

I loved Dennis the Dachshund and his German word order - not to mention the fact that he was a sympathetic German character at a time when there weren't many about on radio.

Ernest the Policeman, Mr Mayor.... lovely nostalgia!

[Ferretfancy]

How about Jane's dachsund Fritzy? He was always on hand in the Daily Mirror comic strip with the heroine, especially when some of her clothing went missing on a regular basis This was a great morale raiser for the troops!

[jean]

I loved Dennis the Dachshund and his German word order...

But when I started learning German myself, I knew there was something terribly wrong - he used to end his sentences Was it not? as though the German phrase was Nicht war? instead of - as any true German would know - Nicht wahr?

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[Mary Chambers]

But when I started learning German myself, I knew there was something terribly wrong - he used to end his sentences Was it not? as thought the German phrase was Nicht war? istead of - as any true German would know - Nicht wahr?

I don't remember that, but I didn't begin to learn German until I was fourteen, by which time the details of Dennis's language were quite hazy!