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Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, [1] soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War.
WSBK-TV/WIHS-TV: The Children's Hour (with Paula Dolan) WCVB, WHDH-TV: Commander Jet's Comedy (with Bill Harrington) WCVB/WHDH-TV: The Natural World with Captain Bob/ Drawing from Nature with Capt. Bob (with Bob Cottle) WCVB-TV: Jabberwocky (Tucker Smallwood, JoBeth Williams) WCVB-TV: A Likely Story (late 1980s - early 1990s) [clarification needed]
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then ...
In 1922 he was the founding General Manager and opening announcer [1] for the first BBC station outside London - Birmingham's 5IT. Under Edgar 5IT pioneered many innovations, from employing the first full-time announcers to launching Children's Hour. [2]
She produced and presented - as "Aunty Peggy" - the BBC Home Service radio programme Children's Hour for almost 20 years, [2] with the Radio Times first listing her appearance on 17 September 1947. [5] She also edited a B.B.C. Children's Hour Annual book, for the BBC. [6] [7]
She went to work for the BBC programme Children's Hour in 1932. [4] There, in 1935, she married a colleague, David Davis (1908–1996) at Dunchurch, Warwickshire, but BBC house rules at the time would not allow husbands and wives to work in the same department. She therefore resigned and turned to freelance writing, film criticism and broadcasting.
In 1939, the audience for Children's Hour reached four million. His signoff line, "Goodnight children, everywhere," became more poignant after the evacuation of many children from their homes at the start of the Second World War. He resigned from the BBC in 1950 due to ill health, [4] and to become the children's editor for the News Chronicle.
Toytown was perhaps the most famous children's series at its peak. [3] It consistently headed the votes for Request Week on Children's Hour for twenty-five years, [4] was believed to be more recognisable than Alice in Wonderland [5] and was seen in over two dozen territories around the world. [4]