Holiday Time
It is an all-embracing programme, but it reserves its closest caresses for the subject of holidays—holidays at sea or on bicycles, up hills, down dales, with camera or fishing-rod. While Children's Hour retains its permanent place in the Home Programme, Hullo Children! is for two months to enliven the forenoon on the Light. I suspect that the great and good men behind this scheme were thinking of parents as well as of the children, for children can be confounded nuisances around the place at holiday time. This programme should (as they say) hold them during that blessed moment of pre-luncheon meditation on a summer's day.
On the first week's showing, these juvenilia should be a success. There is plenty of music, there is a Jules Verne serial, there are Kipling and A. A. Milne as rich mines to be worked, and (as a negative asset) there is very little obvious edification. Most im- portantly, the whole programme is in the hands of Mr. Lionel Gamlin, who is one of those people whose birth Providence (with commendable care) delayed until radio had been invented. His voice is rich without being soapy ; he talks to his audience and not at them, or down to them ; and he has the uncommon gift of coming straight out of one's radio set into one's ear, confidently but authori- tatively. Children have a quick appreciation of gifts like that, and are likely to complain only that Mr. Gamlin, who edits Hullo Children ! has not edited enough of himself into it.
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