A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney

Author:Paul Feeney [Feeney, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780752460970
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2010-12-25T22:00:00+00:00

Your parents had control over the radio’s tuning knob, and children often had little say in what programmes were listened to, but there were plenty of radio shows like Dick Barton, Life with the Lyons and Meet the Huggetts, that managed to get both young and old equally hooked. Even with the advent of television programmes like Watch With Mother and Children’s Hour, radio shows like Uncle Mac’s Children’s Favourite, The Clitheroe Kid and Educating Archie still remained firm favourites with young listeners. As a child in the 1950s, you would have considered the radio announcers and commentators to be just old fuddy-duddies, but you heard so much of them during those radio days that many of their names would still be very familiar to you, such names as Franklin Engelmann, Robert Dougall, Jean Metcalfe, Kenneth Kendal, Alvar Lidell and John Snagge, just to mention a few.

Radio provided great entertainment for you on rainy days, evenings and weekends; and not forgetting the great comfort it could be when you were off school sick with one of those many childhood illnesses of the 1950s. The enormous variety of comedy, drama and music programmes kept you from getting bored and in many ways added to your education. Here is just a selection of popular 1950s radio shows to stir the old grey cells:

A Life of Bliss (1953–9) BBC Light Programme. Written by Godfrey Harrison and featured George Cole as the bumbling David Alexander Bliss who was always finding himself in awkward situations. Petula Clark joined the cast in 1957, and played David Bliss’s girlfriend Penny Gay, until she left him at the altar! Animal imitator, Percy Edwards, played Psyche the dog.

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