Another name from my childhood departs....

[mangerton]

..... with the death of Daphne Oxenford.

I was always sitting comfortably at a quarter to two.

[VodkaDilc]

I never missed it either - and when I started to take a particular interest in the musical aspects, I realised what superb arrangements of the songs they used. "Have you seen the muffin man?", "This is the way the farmers (etc) ride", with appropriate piano accompaniment for each character.

[subcontrabass]

..... with the death of Daphne Oxenford.

I was always sitting comfortably at a quarter to two.

So was I. It was a great wrench when I started school in September 1951 and could no longer listen to her every day.

[Beef Oven]

So was I. It was a great wrench when I started school in September 1951 and could no longer listen to her every day.

Yes, a regular feature of my day until 1965. To be honest, I'd totally forgotten about WWM. RIP Daphne.

[gurnemanz]

..... with the death of Daphne Oxenford.

I was always sitting comfortably at a quarter to two.

Surprising vivid memories of Daphne after all these years and a man called George Dixon singing nursery rhymes in a rather stilted manner and my mother serving rice pudding.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Ah, the delights of Daphne O and then at 2pm, on to the more mysterious world - for a small boy - of Woman's Hour

[JFLL]

... George Dixon singing nursery rhymes in a rather stilted manner ...

'Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Crorse' is the one I remember most vividly. (Titter ye not, missus ... )

[mercia]

........ and the poor old Berceuse forever associated ..............

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/lwm.htm

[Stillhomewardbound]

I knew her from work of many years on 'What the Papers Say', and excellent and highly versatile she was too.

[Lateralthinking1]

Sad news.

My education began with LWM. It is the main reason why I took to music and words. Better things might have happened if formal teaching had been to the same standard. And without the radio, I would probably have left school with a couple of O'levels at 16.