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DescriptionThere was a Childrens` Request Session on the radio in Greymouth in the 1950`s - 60`s, and there were stories like "Sparky,the Talking Train" and "Diana and the Golden Apples" and "Gerald Mc`Boing Boing" and "Flick the Little Fire Engine","Tubby the Tuba" and "Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 hats",Rumpelstiltskin.
Does anyone remember what day it was on the radio?
...and does anyone remember the School Holiday Programme on the radio?Date of Photo1950`s and 60`sMap[1] Video
Does anyone remember what day it was on the radio?
...and does anyone remember the School Holiday Programme on the radio?Date of Photo1950`s and 60`sMap[1] Video
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Location (city or town)GreymouthPersonGavin YatesOrganisation (eg business)3 YZ3 Y AEvent Childrens` Request Session
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Date Created13th December 2020CommentsCraig Marks
sunday mornings
Linda Pearce
I remember the school holiday programme. I think it was hosted by Gavin Yates?
Heather Newby
Linda Pearce oh yes!! now i remember.. we all used to sit around the wireless and listen to it.
Trish Rennie
Yep...so loved that....loved the trumpet themed music that played before the program began
Paul Francis
I can hear the theme tune!
Bev Kelly
Linda Pearce yes that’s right! Now that you’ve mentioned it! Was a great programme
Martin Burt
Yes, Sundays. Also ran in school holidays.
Yvonne Lawson
Yep Sunday morning
Gae Galway
Never missed those Sunday morning sessions.
Paul Agnes Smith
Remember the trombone intro.....
Lyn Galvin
Loved those old stories The ones they have on these days are rubbish
Wayne Leckie
Sunday
Lucy Brown
Kate Meers
Jack Meers
Sandra Arnott
Do you remember 6pm dossier on dometree! Yes I remember sunday mornings the koala crying!
Peter Forrest
Sandra Arnott Hi Sandra, I agree, that was the best radio programme ever!!
Arthur Bass
Hospital Requests on Saturday mornings too wasn't it.
Heather Newby
Arthur Bass there was a Saturday request session with such songs as He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves.
Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers.
Running Bear - Johnny Preston.… See More
Brett McLean
Arthur Bass Calling all Hospitals was on Sunday mornings.
Arthur Bass
Heather Newby ta.
Heather Newby
Then there was the Hospital Requests.. and a couple from Granity always put in a request.There were such songs from Mother England..Gracie Fields and Vera Lyn,,.
Marie Tern
Heather Newby the pioneer requests in Sunday morning. Emigration songs were popular.
Marie Tern
https://youtu.be/ugQPWvnr0kU
Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
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Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
Marie Tern
This was a popular emigration sing I remember hearing
Heather Newby
and L:and of Hope and Glory..
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
I loved all those wonderful stories and still remember all the works to Flick the Fire engine, I’ve also met many Gerald McBoing Boings.
Janine Burt
I'm not from the coast but I used to listen to the radio show In Christchurch 3ZB and all those stories
Maxine Morgan
Sunday. Also Maime Watson played the puano on local radio for the schools.
Graeme Marriott
Sunday mornings
Trish Briggs
Wasn't it Sunday morning Heather Newby?
Amanda Harrington
Every Sunday , we would be up cleaning the bar and have the radio going listening to them, loved sparky the train one
Heather Newby
Amanda Harrington we were all hoping Sparky would make it..
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Amanda Harrington loved sparky, often remind myself, “I can do it, I can do it”.
Amanda Harrington
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands yip funny ae
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Amanda Harrington ooops, I think he said “I think I can, I think I can”. Loved it.
Martin Griffin
Remember 3 of but not Diana and the Golden Apples.
For sure the 3 I recall were on air in the early ‘70s as well.
Linda Howard
Martin Griffin ...I don’t remember Diana and the Golden Apples either.
Ken Tomlinson
Anyone remember the story how the moon took away the koalas voice.Heather Newby
Ken Tomlinson I don`t remember that but if I heard it I would remember.
Linda Howard
Ken Tomlinson ..didn’t the moon take away the Wombats tail as well or am I mixed up.
Mary Moffitt
Ken Tomlinson Yes, but not much about it.
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson wasn't it an Aboriginal myth, I vaguely remember it, the moon was punished for it's pride and arrogance by waning every month and having to start again. There was an old man called Murra Murra. And I'm pretty sure there was a wombat or k…
Cheryl Pinn
that was the koala
Cheryl Pinn
Also the Snow Goose
Ken Tomlinson
Diana Mattingly Yes that was it, beingtrying to find story to show my Grandkids but doesn't seem to be on Youtube anywhere. Might have been removed.
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson good luck trying
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Ken Tomlinson yes I do.
Janet Birch
Ken Tomlinson oh YES! Sunday mornings on the West Coast. 1950,s children’s stories. 9am weekdays Aunt Daisy, 6pm While milking the cows Dad and Dave from Snake Gully. Hahaha those were the days a long time ago.
Janet Birch
And what about Simon and Mary?
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson Try this link, it has the story of how the koala lost it's tail https://mthirayear8.wordpress.com/dreamtime-stories/
Dreamtime Stories
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Dreamtime Stories
Dreamtime Stories
Bev Kelly
Ken Tomlinson sure do!
Heather Newby
Ken Tomlinson The Foolish Koala
Richard N Raelyn Dyer
yes love it....Bad Jelly The Witch..
Margaret Kaa
Hopalong cassidy and the Haunted Goldmine
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Margaret Kaa also Peter church mouse. Both were played quite a lot.
Margaret Moore
Loved those stories especially Flick and Sparky. They must have been on in the weekend or school holidays
Heather Newby
and on the saturday morning request session someone always requested "Happy Birthday sweet 16" by Neil Sedaka.
Linda Howard
I also loved those stories, I remember them being read over the radio, my favourite was Gerald McBoingboing.
Trish Leckie
Casper the friendly ghost was a favourite of mine. It was Sunday morning. Loved all the stories
Heather Newby
Marie Tern
Muzz George
Hospital requests was on a Sunday?
Heather Newby
Muzz George yes.. I think it started at 10am? 3YZ?
Muzz George
Riveting for a teenager
Heather Newby
Muzz George I listed to Kasie Kasem when I was a teenager.. I think it was on Saturday afternoons.. 100 countdown of the latest hits
Muzz George
Heather Newby I think we all did as teenagers Heather. No other choices in those days
Naireen Bass
Heather Newby , yes, but he ruined a lot of it by talking too much.
Gillian Castle
I remember Diana and the apples, very exciting !!
Naireen Bass
Diana & the golden apples was my favourite. I was always disappointed when they didn't play it on the Sunday morning.
Dinah Okeby
Gavin Yates was the holiday host
Wayne Cannan
Sunday mornings,would listen to them every weekend. They also did birthdays . Another one was dr dolly well .
Matt Hawken
Constable Keith and Sniff the dog, you could win a meal at Cobb n co by phoning in
Gina Gray
Grew up listenimg to gerald mcboing boing, my dad also did a good rendition, also l9ved bad jelly
Heather Newby
Gina Gray lolol.. your Dad !
Fendall Hill
I can’t speak for the west Coast, but for Auckland in the 1970s it was on 1ZB 7-9am Sunday mornings hosted by Les Andrews.
Colleen Rogers
I do remember David and dawn loved that program
Muzz George
John pyke/pike - local radio - was a great one for impersonating. I think he regularly Took off Gerald mc...
Diane Burling
I've got lots of those stories on cd
Diane Burling
Wendy Cane
Carol Phillipps
Was Sundays I use to listen in the North island on radio station 1ZB
Tinker Brian
I was lucky enough at the age of 13 to go into the radio station and meet John Pike and watch him doing some impersonations, he was very talented.
One of my favourite stories was Maxi … See More
Heather Newby
Tinker Brian ha ha..I don`t remember that one
Tinker Brian
I am 74 now and could still remember most of the dialogue
Bev Kelly
Tinker Brian I can still hear the voices in the story!! Especially the bear
Annie Pickering
Bambi
Muzz George
Annie Pickering Hop along Cassidy
Pat Meredith
sunday mornings
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember listening to the Request session on Sunday mornings in Christchurch on 3ZB. My favourite was the story of Bambi.
Pat Meredith
And the Hunchback of Benarlie in the evenings.
Kyle Webster
yeah, same used to be on 3ZB in Christchurch on Sunday morning's but we had some of these on vinyl
Faye York
With Uncle John?
Diana Goodall
It was on Sunday mornings on 2ZB.
]PaulAnthony Teens
Diana Goodall 3yz
Mandi James
In 70s and 80s it was sunday mornings
Muzz George
Wasn’t Greymouth 3YA
Colin Pearce
Muzz George 3YA was the national radio station. 3ZA was the commercial station.
Work at Radio Scenicland for three years..started my (so far) 46 year career in radio.
Noeline Pinn
Colin Pearse, wasn’t the Greymouth station 3YZ!?
Muzz George
Noeline Pinn yes sorry.
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
There was CD you could get some time ago with all these wonderful stories on it. I think it was done one of the past hosts on news talkzb or one of those talk back stations. I did have one but I think I gave it to the grandchildren.
Glenys Malone
Come on out and fight me Finn McCool I’m bigger and stronger than you are but no one will believe until I beat you in a good fair fight
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Glenys Malone omg I so remember this. It was great to remember when visiting the Giant Causeway in Ireland.
Bev Kelly
Glenys Malone ... that was a great story!!
Sunny Day
Glenys Malone wow havent heard of that for years.Christchurch we had Sunday morning requests.That was like in 19 63 ish.What about the statue that got the swallow to pick out his eyes which werejewels to take them to the poor.Cried every time I heard i… See More
Craig Utting
"The Friendly Giant"
Anita Hale
Sunday mornings
Kay Nichols
Sunday’s. Mum used to write in requests. She got a sleepin!
Kay Nichols
I loved Gossamer Wump and his triangle.
Miles Reay
So - general request session (“You ask, we Play”?) Saturday mornings, children’s’ request session Sunday mornings. There was also a hospital request session and a classical request session. Where did they fit in. Sunday’s I think. Maybe two were on alternate Sundays?
Janette Anderson
Sunday mornings on 3YZ, the Greymouth station
Colin Pearce
Uncle John Pike
...a classic.
Hospital requests..every week..how great thou art..never walk alone.. amazing grace...not so positive eh.
Heather Newby
Colin Pearce Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight... My old man`s a dustman.. Smoke , smoke , smoke that cigarette, smoke smoke smoke till you smoke yourself to death..
Miles Reay
I Must Have Good Tobacco When I Smoke
Marie Tern
I remember The Goons and The Clitheroe Kid
Donna Bradley
Sunday morning on Radio Scenicland
Pauline Matene
It was on Sunday mornings, always listened to it
Ave Muir
I have a lot of those stories on the old 45 records
Bev Kelly
There was a children’s programme every weekday about 5.15 I think, on 3YZ. With Uncle John.
Just loved the holiday kids programme. about 9am it was!
Bev Kelly
Loved the story The Littlest Angel. And there was another story I used to love but can’t remember the name of... it was about a circus... I remember it talked about the hurdy gurdy man... anyone else remember it?
Nadine Burrows
Bad jelly the witch!
Tony Fortune
Gavin Yeates holiday programme....theme with lasses trombone
Tony Fortune
The story of Fin Mc cool.
John Sara
I think it was a guy called Gavin Yates on the school holiday program.
Tony Fortune
sticky beak the kiwi
Tony Fortune
You ask...we play. On saturday mornings.
Anne Honey
I remember John Pike who lived in Cobden my favorite was a story of a girl who befriended a man on a beach who went to Dunkirk to rescue soldiers in his little boat. Her name was Frith. Thank you for remimding me lovely listening.
Maree Lawlor
Anne Honey loved that story
Garry Mcsherry
Anne Honey it was called the Snow Goose
Mary Costello
Sunday Mornings
Tania Newman
I used to borrow dad's transistor radio & listen to the stories with the earplug. Loved them
Christina Veale
When there is a fire in town quick, call the little engine, call the the little engine, call the little engine Flick.
Christina Veale
Fifty two cards, the serviceman who carried his bible in a pack of cards.
Heather Newby
Christina Veale yes.. i remember that too
Miles Reay
Deck of Cards
Brian Boustridge
Arthur Pomeroi and I wrote a small stage play on this when we were at Grey main. From memory the seargents name was Cutts or something like that
Maree Lawlor
And don't forget Hoppy and the lost gold mine!
Brian Boustridge
Could you imagine with PC today calling someone Gerald Mc Boing Boing!!!
Brian Boustridge
Yes and if you want to hear that again it’s on U Tube
Brian Boustridge
And the Denver Dragon as well
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Karla Skates
I remember listening to it and the bell would ring when it was time to turn the page. The very first audiobooks lol
Fe Armstrong
Sunday mornings - I recall buying the CD at some stage. Message me if you want a copy
Heather Newby
Jack and the Beanstalk.. Fe,fi, fo, fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!! Be he alive or be he dead
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
Gareth O'Connell
Badjelly the Witch was my fav. My girls still like it on YouTube.
Keren Bond
We had it on 3zb in chch. Pokey little puppy, flick the fire engine, little toot ... They were the best
Rosanna Anderson
Sparky the train and Flick the little fire engine were my favs
John Rosanowski
Rosanna Anderson "Left front wheel, left front wheel."
Anna Panther
Sunday morning & what about the other Sunday morning request session Country music - Nel & Patricia from Arthurstown always had a request in lol
Glenn Tomlinson
Gavin Yates had a program during the school holidays
Glenn Tomlinson
Any one know the title of the theme music?
Christine Rose Ashdown
Love Sunday morning requests , I sent in heaps
Garry Mcsherry
What about the troll
John Rosanowski
" Who pulled the emergency cord !! Who pulled the emergency cord !!"
John Rosanowski
No request session was complete without "Destiny." (Gil Desh ??)
Heather Newby
John Rosanowski and Robin`s Return ...and The Nun`s Chorus.
Glenys Malone
The Billy Goats Gruff Who’s that Walking on my bridge Trip Trap Trip Trap on my bridge O it’s you little billy goat Ha Ha Haa. I’m going to eat you up
Heather Newbyr
Glenys Malone Dad used to say to us when we were kids, that the Billy goats Gruff bridge was that little bridge on the way to Marsden Road
Valda Ford
Uncle John?
Marlene Coleman
What was the one set to classical music about a girl picking up golden apples?
Arthur Bass
Marlene Coleman Diana and The Golden Apples.
Marlene Coleman
Arthur Bass thank you. Couldn't for the life of me remember her name.
Margaret Mckee
And then there was "You ask we play" song request programme on a sunday
Margaret Malloch
Flick the little fire engine was one of many of my favourites requested so many and sat up close to listen to all other request programmes great times
Garry Dunn
Don't forget "Bad Jelly The Witch", classic.
Tim Mora
Garry Dunn read by spike Milligan
Garry Dunn
Tim Mora I've got a CD of it and played it on every road trip with my kids.
Elizabeth Ann Beech
The Enchanted Trumpet with Flytrap and 'shut up and let him get on with it'
Arthur Bass
Sparky.
Shona Ratana
I remember the story of sea creatures Used to stand on a chair to hear this with ear close to radio which was situated high in the corner of the kitchen because mum was cooking. Not sure what days of the week it was on. Loved these stories.
Trevor Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O3IzIzoVvk
Sparky and the Talking Train Alan Livingston 1947
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Sparky and the Talking Train Alan Livingston 1947
Sparky and the Talking Train Alan Livingston 1947
Betty Buckland King
It was on a sunday morning around 7.30am i think.
We used to listen every week.
Denise Bradley
Help me Sparky, help me sparky. What about Gerald McBoingBoing.
Denise Bradley
Was it Uncle John Pike?
Shona McLean
Denise Bradley used to love John Pike. Didn’t he have a program and had Simon and the gang. Someone will remember better than me. We used to send in poems and stories and what a thrill it was if yours was read out on the radio.
Shona McLean
Yes I remember
Mary Findlay
Yes he was amazing so many voices
Leo Fisher
denver dragon
James Codyre
Gosh there are a lot of "Old Buggers" on here with great memories.
Edwin Lord
Remember those good old days well used to sit around the radio to listen to them
Tim Mora
Little toot the tugboat
Amanda Harrington
Tim Mora oh yea loved that one to
Les Bryce
My favorite was Dianna and the golden apples.
Gary Sinclair
The Lone Ranger, the laughing policeman
Helen Ryder
Loved Sparky best and still love the radio.
Michelle Clarkson
I loved listening to them.
Diana Monahan
We listened also
Judy Davis
Sparky and the talking train
Brian Kelly
Judy Davis Right front wheel.
Jeff Sherman
The Denver Dragon !!!! Had so many notches carved into his pistol he whittled the handle clean away, lol.
Graham Messenger
The old radio stories were great. Heard them that many times that I can still recite some of them.
Jill Smith
My favourite was the porridge pot boiling over." Stop little pot your cooking is done theres quite enough porridge for everyone "
Marilyn Paterson
I loved The Snow Goose.
John Ryall
Marilyn Paterson
Carolyn Luck
John Pike was great with all the different voices he could do.
Mike Dunn
I can’t remember the name, but it went something like “is that as fast as you can go. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite so slow “ and “ thank you said Dunker, oh not at all said the hairy tailed commet”
I’ve tried googling the key words but no luck with a title.
Marilyn Hill
Yes sunday mornings
Pam Finch
wonderful memories we would have radio on awaiting thestart of the request session...
Jane Andrews
Yes, I do remember those on a Sunday morning!
Kaye Marilyn Power
Diana and the golden apples for me. Also how the koala lost his voice. Our father set up an extension radio so we could listen in our rooms.
Evelyn Hampton
Listened to this every weekend, I loved the stories..
Wayne Searle
How Kiwi lost his wings and the Koala that raced the Moon
Margaret McBride
you have a good memory Brian.
Jakh Heremia
Danny Kaye - The Ugly Duckling, The Kings New Clothes, The Little Matchgirl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Snow White and Rose Red and my favourite
Karin Baynton-Hunter
Sunday morning 700am.
Karin Baynton-Hunter
This was such a treat !!!
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This is from Paul Agnes Smith https://youtu.be/mLEy0MAnxoU
Keith White
LOVED listening to those! I pretended it was for the kids.....
Ray Douglas
I was doing the kids program for a while in the early 80's on Scenicland and we still played a number of these.. I remember Sparky the Talking Train, Gerald McBoing Boing.. and Flick the little Fire Engine (which was very popular even then..) How many people can remember the song... I bet Ivan Murray Wilson can..
Anne Kelly
I remember the holiday programme. I think they had competitions for all ages. Also the stories! Great memories!
Mark Ross
I remember those days! Bring them back
Keith White
Heather Newby, what a fantastic post! So many memories, and so many names I recognise among the respondents On a similar topic, when I moved from Greymouth to Christchurch in 1979, through the 80s there were similar programs. There was a clergyman who had recorded a series of children's stories and my kids loved them - almost as much as I did . They had titles like "Beatrice the Biscuit" and "Rupert the Raindrop", and they had moral lessons as their theme. Anybody recall those?
Rose Henham
What about rose y the. Riveter ???
Murray Webber
Yes I do
Denise Bradley
Did anyone ever participate in the quizz on the radio. I'm sure John Pike was the quizz Master and I remember winning a savings account from one of the Banks with 5 shillings deposited.
Alison Paulsen
Denise Bradley I took part in the quizzes and my greatest joy was to finally win the big prize, but in those days even 5 shillings in the bank was a big deal
Martin Griffin
No bet recall ringing in and winning a frisbee!
Ron Burt
The quizzes with uncle John
Judy Crestani
Loved the school holiday program. Me and Gary would sit by the fire and listen
Carol Jones
Bad Jelly the Witch
Judy Davis
I soooo envied the kids who had their birthdays remembered -and told to go look in the wardrobe etc
Anne Honey
Yes uncle John always remembered mine. Was at the hairdressers on my wedding day and he wished me all the best and played Elvis Presley singing Hawaiian wedding song. Best hair appt i ever had.
Kaye Brown
Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Peter and the Wolf. These stories were often read in conjunction with classical music, they were wonderful for the imagination and development of the ability to listen.
Susan Shearer
Yes I do
Sunday mornings always listening
Pamela Jones
Those were the days!
Tony Forsyth
The Golden Palomino and the Tale of the four Winds were ones I enjoyed (1950s)
Clarice Hutt
Yep, I remember these.
Bev Huston
Trying to remember the exact title of the exciting story about The lost silvermine..or Mystery of the lost silvermine....?
Margaret Kaa
Bev Huston Hopalong Cassidy and the Haunted Goldmine or was there a different one??
Heather Newby
Bev Huston I kind of remember that too
Bob Wright
Radio Ferrymead in Christchurch broadcasts a selection of these in the morning on the weekends
Trish Stewart
Every Sunday mornings I used to love listening to these Bad Jelly the witch was my favourite
Russell Knipe
And dont forget my all time favorite, The Trumpet of the Four Winds. "Oh shutup and let him get on with eeeeet".
Russell Knipe
I also remember being very young, sitting on the Kitchen bench next to the radio howling my eyes out, after listening to the story of the Statue and the Swallow. I was a very emotional wee boy of about 6 or 7.
Neil Martin
Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried,
To a sympathetic beetle by his side.
"I've got nobody to hug,
I'm such an ugly bug."
There's an ear worm for tonight!
Wayne Nicholson
" Run Millanion, Run".. I always remember that line from Diana and the Golden Apples.
Heather Newby
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Wayne Nicholson good memory
Christine Benjamin
And Hopalong Cassidy.
Les Holmes Germanicus
These stories need to be kept alive and about 10 years ago Coast FM were playing many of them on Lyn Griffiths' kids how early Sunday mornings and I would always listen in...until they stopped that in favour of that awful Suzy Cato PC radio show. I turned it off and now even that is finished so there is no show at all any more. A great shame.
Bernie Merrick
Ha loved Sparkey the Talking Train
Julie Taylor
Me to and Diana and the golden apples
Peta Jones
I just loved it so much! There were adventure sort of serials too.Michael Crighton
remember them well listened on my crystal set and ear phone
Christine Stewart
I remember these !
Sue Bousfield
Yes I remember them too.
Cindy Briggs
I've got the song from Flick the Little Fire Engine going through my head now........ "I'm a little fire engine, Flick is my name; They won't let me put out fires, isn't t… See More
Cindy Briggs I can’t get that song to stop now...
Cindy Briggs
Bruce Knight sorry!
Trish Briggs
You are not Cindy Briggs
Arthur Bass
My name is Maxie, I drive a taxi.
John Paget
Merv Smith used to narrate these stories.
Paul Agnes Smith
Gerald Mc Boinboing came up in a conversation I was having last week!!
Trish Rennie
And of course there were the Danny Kaye songs, Inchworm, Thumbelina, The ugly duckling, wonderful memories
Trish Rennie
Hop along Cassidy and the lost Dutchman’s goldmine….the bunyip n the moon….Peter Rabbit n Mr MacGregors garden….
Anne Bruce
Sadly, I can still recite Sparky & the Talking Train. These days I listed to audio books, there is something rather soothing listening to someone reading a storey out loud.
Ruth Naylor
There was the holiday program Gavin Yates did as well. There is these played on Saturday /Sunday mornings about 6-15 a.m.
Tony Kokshoorn
Shit yah. Great times. I am telling the grandkids the stories but they thing I have gone nuts.
Renee Panapa
I loved it. Finn McCoo
Naireen Bass
Diana and the golden apples was my all time favourite.
Murray Browne
I remember it well! We used to sit around the radio and listen to it!
John Paget
Before the programme went politiclly correct.
Margaret Malloch
sparky and the talking train was my usual request
Ivan Murray Wilson
Played a bunch of those in the 70s on the Children's sessions - loved Spike's Bad Jelly.
Annabel Boland
Loved those programmes.
Bev Tate
I definitely remember. My older sister and I were discussing these stories the other day!!!!
Joyce White
Yes I remember all those wonderful stories. I loved Sparky the talking train.
Grant Richardson
I do in the 80s bad jelly the - Flick the fire engine.
Ron Johnson
Uncle John was on at 5.00 pm I think. I certainly remember the other songs and programmes mentioned.
Craig Smith
Bad jelly the witch in the 70s
Margaret Elizabeth Carter
Yes I do
Judy Crestani
I remember the school program on the radio. Mum would put two chairs by the fire and we would listen while keeping warm. They also had good programs at night. I can remember out the Bach at christmas listening to spooky stories.
Ed Dando
Lved sparky - we were glued to that radio
PJ Spence
Had the 2x 78 records of The Happy Prince
Julie Cartner
Every Sunday morning. Liked Small One and Thd Happy Prince the statue and the bird
Terry Bradley
There was three volume set of children's request favourites. It was compiled by Don Linden, when he did an early Sunday morning show in the late 90's I'm not sure if they're still in the EMI catalogue.
I still play them from time to time.
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Rose Henham
The little tug boat..Haunted Gold mine.loved them all.oh Gerald Mc Boing Boing ?Be great to get some copies
Tania Tones Lawrence
Sunday morning sleep in's at Nana and Grandads house in Dobson. Nana would bring me marmite on toast and a cup of milo - while listening to the stories, "70's" Yes they spoiled me
Heather Newby
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The PC brigade would ban most of those stories these days
Vern Pattinson
I do very well
Wendy Bruce
School Holiday Programme with Gavin Yates
Noel Marie Batty
Remember the request session fondly, tucked up in bed, rain on the roof and Wondering about “ right front wheel, right front wheel” .
Aileen Thornley
Weren’t the stories played every Sunday morning about 7am?
School Holidays or not?
We were up bright and early to listen, simple happy times
I think Diana and the Golden Apples was my favourite
Don Allen
It was on a Sunday morning so parents could get they’re “sleep in”
Cyril Hector
And Uncle John (Pike), Pancho Gogglesnitch and Simon ...can't remember the programme name.
Sandra Rooney
Even at high school I kept up with the 5pm childrens hour.
Jakh Heremia
Uncle John.
Jakh Heremia
Peter and the wolf - the music made the story come alive
Sue McCallum
Remember uncle John growing up and I had honour to nurse him in his final days Morice ward
Kathy Marshall
Ferdinand the Bull and another one was Finn McCaul.
Sandra Rooney
Remember all those stories
Geoffrey King
Around 5pm on a Saturday hosted by John Pike
Raewyn Taylor
Oh my Goodness ,long forgotten memories !!!
Raewyn Taylor
And that story about the slimy slugs ???...
Deb Ramage
How weird, only thinking of Diana and the Golden Apples yesterday . Loved Sparky thinks the Train Talks.
Sandra Rooney
Listened regularly. Remember John Pike.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Remember it well, a lot of fun when a child
Margaret Kaa
I think Reo Murtha was on 3YZ in those days - I may be mistaken.
Margaret Kaa
Certainly do. We could write in and enter competitions, listen to stories etc. Great fun
Myron Caldwell
Was that on 3ZR back then????
Ron Johnson
Uncle John was on at 5.00 pm I think. I certainly remember the other songs and programmes mentioned.
Ruth Naylor
There was the holiday program Gavin Yates did as well. There is these played on Saturday /Sunday mornings about 6-15 a.m.
Theresa Gibson
We listened to a request session on a Sunday morning. The reception from the coast was near perfect on our car radio, not the best on the little Bell radio at home.
Stephen Hudson
Gavin Yates and Lasser's Trombone !
Rob Absalom
I'm a little fire engine Flick is my name, they won't let me put out fires isn't it a shame...
Maxine Morgan
Does anyone remember Maime Watson playing the piano on radio for schools. We used to sit on the mat at Taylorville school and sing along
Beverley Hooper
And Tommy Steel singing The Little White
Jo Hart
It was compulsive listening!
Kyle Webster
Bad Jelly the witch
Kyle Webster
Bad Jelly the witch
sunday mornings
Linda Pearce
I remember the school holiday programme. I think it was hosted by Gavin Yates?
Heather Newby
Linda Pearce oh yes!! now i remember.. we all used to sit around the wireless and listen to it.
Trish Rennie
Yep...so loved that....loved the trumpet themed music that played before the program began
Paul Francis
I can hear the theme tune!
Bev Kelly
Linda Pearce yes that’s right! Now that you’ve mentioned it! Was a great programme
Martin Burt
Yes, Sundays. Also ran in school holidays.
Yvonne Lawson
Yep Sunday morning
Gae Galway
Never missed those Sunday morning sessions.
Paul Agnes Smith
Remember the trombone intro.....
Lyn Galvin
Loved those old stories The ones they have on these days are rubbish
Wayne Leckie
Sunday
Lucy Brown
Kate Meers
Jack Meers
Sandra Arnott
Do you remember 6pm dossier on dometree! Yes I remember sunday mornings the koala crying!
Peter Forrest
Sandra Arnott Hi Sandra, I agree, that was the best radio programme ever!!
Arthur Bass
Hospital Requests on Saturday mornings too wasn't it.
Heather Newby
Arthur Bass there was a Saturday request session with such songs as He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves.
Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers.
Running Bear - Johnny Preston.… See More
Brett McLean
Arthur Bass Calling all Hospitals was on Sunday mornings.
Arthur Bass
Heather Newby ta.
Heather Newby
Then there was the Hospital Requests.. and a couple from Granity always put in a request.There were such songs from Mother England..Gracie Fields and Vera Lyn,,.
Marie Tern
Heather Newby the pioneer requests in Sunday morning. Emigration songs were popular.
Marie Tern
https://youtu.be/ugQPWvnr0kU
Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
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Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
Silly Wizard - If I Was A Blackbird
Marie Tern
This was a popular emigration sing I remember hearing
Heather Newby
and L:and of Hope and Glory..
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
I loved all those wonderful stories and still remember all the works to Flick the Fire engine, I’ve also met many Gerald McBoing Boings.
Janine Burt
I'm not from the coast but I used to listen to the radio show In Christchurch 3ZB and all those stories
Maxine Morgan
Sunday. Also Maime Watson played the puano on local radio for the schools.
Graeme Marriott
Sunday mornings
Trish Briggs
Wasn't it Sunday morning Heather Newby?
Amanda Harrington
Every Sunday , we would be up cleaning the bar and have the radio going listening to them, loved sparky the train one
Heather Newby
Amanda Harrington we were all hoping Sparky would make it..
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Amanda Harrington loved sparky, often remind myself, “I can do it, I can do it”.
Amanda Harrington
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands yip funny ae
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Amanda Harrington ooops, I think he said “I think I can, I think I can”. Loved it.
Martin Griffin
Remember 3 of but not Diana and the Golden Apples.
For sure the 3 I recall were on air in the early ‘70s as well.
Linda Howard
Martin Griffin ...I don’t remember Diana and the Golden Apples either.
Ken Tomlinson
Anyone remember the story how the moon took away the koalas voice.Heather Newby
Ken Tomlinson I don`t remember that but if I heard it I would remember.
Linda Howard
Ken Tomlinson ..didn’t the moon take away the Wombats tail as well or am I mixed up.
Mary Moffitt
Ken Tomlinson Yes, but not much about it.
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson wasn't it an Aboriginal myth, I vaguely remember it, the moon was punished for it's pride and arrogance by waning every month and having to start again. There was an old man called Murra Murra. And I'm pretty sure there was a wombat or k…
Cheryl Pinn
that was the koala
Cheryl Pinn
Also the Snow Goose
Ken Tomlinson
Diana Mattingly Yes that was it, beingtrying to find story to show my Grandkids but doesn't seem to be on Youtube anywhere. Might have been removed.
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson good luck trying
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Ken Tomlinson yes I do.
Janet Birch
Ken Tomlinson oh YES! Sunday mornings on the West Coast. 1950,s children’s stories. 9am weekdays Aunt Daisy, 6pm While milking the cows Dad and Dave from Snake Gully. Hahaha those were the days a long time ago.
Janet Birch
And what about Simon and Mary?
Diana Mattingly
Ken Tomlinson Try this link, it has the story of how the koala lost it's tail https://mthirayear8.wordpress.com/dreamtime-stories/
Dreamtime Stories
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Dreamtime Stories
Dreamtime Stories
Bev Kelly
Ken Tomlinson sure do!
Heather Newby
Ken Tomlinson The Foolish Koala
Richard N Raelyn Dyer
yes love it....Bad Jelly The Witch..
Margaret Kaa
Hopalong cassidy and the Haunted Goldmine
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Margaret Kaa also Peter church mouse. Both were played quite a lot.
Margaret Moore
Loved those stories especially Flick and Sparky. They must have been on in the weekend or school holidays
Heather Newby
and on the saturday morning request session someone always requested "Happy Birthday sweet 16" by Neil Sedaka.
Linda Howard
I also loved those stories, I remember them being read over the radio, my favourite was Gerald McBoingboing.
Trish Leckie
Casper the friendly ghost was a favourite of mine. It was Sunday morning. Loved all the stories
Heather Newby
Marie Tern
Muzz George
Hospital requests was on a Sunday?
Heather Newby
Muzz George yes.. I think it started at 10am? 3YZ?
Muzz George
Riveting for a teenager
Heather Newby
Muzz George I listed to Kasie Kasem when I was a teenager.. I think it was on Saturday afternoons.. 100 countdown of the latest hits
Muzz George
Heather Newby I think we all did as teenagers Heather. No other choices in those days
Naireen Bass
Heather Newby , yes, but he ruined a lot of it by talking too much.
Gillian Castle
I remember Diana and the apples, very exciting !!
Naireen Bass
Diana & the golden apples was my favourite. I was always disappointed when they didn't play it on the Sunday morning.
Dinah Okeby
Gavin Yates was the holiday host
Wayne Cannan
Sunday mornings,would listen to them every weekend. They also did birthdays . Another one was dr dolly well .
Matt Hawken
Constable Keith and Sniff the dog, you could win a meal at Cobb n co by phoning in
Gina Gray
Grew up listenimg to gerald mcboing boing, my dad also did a good rendition, also l9ved bad jelly
Heather Newby
Gina Gray lolol.. your Dad !
Fendall Hill
I can’t speak for the west Coast, but for Auckland in the 1970s it was on 1ZB 7-9am Sunday mornings hosted by Les Andrews.
Colleen Rogers
I do remember David and dawn loved that program
Muzz George
John pyke/pike - local radio - was a great one for impersonating. I think he regularly Took off Gerald mc...
Diane Burling
I've got lots of those stories on cd
Diane Burling
Wendy Cane
Carol Phillipps
Was Sundays I use to listen in the North island on radio station 1ZB
Tinker Brian
I was lucky enough at the age of 13 to go into the radio station and meet John Pike and watch him doing some impersonations, he was very talented.
One of my favourite stories was Maxi … See More
Heather Newby
Tinker Brian ha ha..I don`t remember that one
Tinker Brian
I am 74 now and could still remember most of the dialogue
Bev Kelly
Tinker Brian I can still hear the voices in the story!! Especially the bear
Annie Pickering
Bambi
Muzz George
Annie Pickering Hop along Cassidy
Pat Meredith
sunday mornings
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember listening to the Request session on Sunday mornings in Christchurch on 3ZB. My favourite was the story of Bambi.
Pat Meredith
And the Hunchback of Benarlie in the evenings.
Kyle Webster
yeah, same used to be on 3ZB in Christchurch on Sunday morning's but we had some of these on vinyl
Faye York
With Uncle John?
Diana Goodall
It was on Sunday mornings on 2ZB.
]PaulAnthony Teens
Diana Goodall 3yz
Mandi James
In 70s and 80s it was sunday mornings
Muzz George
Wasn’t Greymouth 3YA
Colin Pearce
Muzz George 3YA was the national radio station. 3ZA was the commercial station.
Work at Radio Scenicland for three years..started my (so far) 46 year career in radio.
Noeline Pinn
Colin Pearse, wasn’t the Greymouth station 3YZ!?
Muzz George
Noeline Pinn yes sorry.
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
There was CD you could get some time ago with all these wonderful stories on it. I think it was done one of the past hosts on news talkzb or one of those talk back stations. I did have one but I think I gave it to the grandchildren.
Glenys Malone
Come on out and fight me Finn McCool I’m bigger and stronger than you are but no one will believe until I beat you in a good fair fight
Catherine Moffitt Rowlands
Glenys Malone omg I so remember this. It was great to remember when visiting the Giant Causeway in Ireland.
Bev Kelly
Glenys Malone ... that was a great story!!
Sunny Day
Glenys Malone wow havent heard of that for years.Christchurch we had Sunday morning requests.That was like in 19 63 ish.What about the statue that got the swallow to pick out his eyes which werejewels to take them to the poor.Cried every time I heard i… See More
Craig Utting
"The Friendly Giant"
Anita Hale
Sunday mornings
Kay Nichols
Sunday’s. Mum used to write in requests. She got a sleepin!
Kay Nichols
I loved Gossamer Wump and his triangle.
Miles Reay
So - general request session (“You ask, we Play”?) Saturday mornings, children’s’ request session Sunday mornings. There was also a hospital request session and a classical request session. Where did they fit in. Sunday’s I think. Maybe two were on alternate Sundays?
Janette Anderson
Sunday mornings on 3YZ, the Greymouth station
Colin Pearce
Uncle John Pike
...a classic.
Hospital requests..every week..how great thou art..never walk alone.. amazing grace...not so positive eh.
Heather Newby
Colin Pearce Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight... My old man`s a dustman.. Smoke , smoke , smoke that cigarette, smoke smoke smoke till you smoke yourself to death..
Miles Reay
I Must Have Good Tobacco When I Smoke
Marie Tern
I remember The Goons and The Clitheroe Kid
Donna Bradley
Sunday morning on Radio Scenicland
Pauline Matene
It was on Sunday mornings, always listened to it
Ave Muir
I have a lot of those stories on the old 45 records
Bev Kelly
There was a children’s programme every weekday about 5.15 I think, on 3YZ. With Uncle John.
Just loved the holiday kids programme. about 9am it was!
Bev Kelly
Loved the story The Littlest Angel. And there was another story I used to love but can’t remember the name of... it was about a circus... I remember it talked about the hurdy gurdy man... anyone else remember it?
Nadine Burrows
Bad jelly the witch!
Tony Fortune
Gavin Yeates holiday programme....theme with lasses trombone
Tony Fortune
The story of Fin Mc cool.
John Sara
I think it was a guy called Gavin Yates on the school holiday program.
Tony Fortune
sticky beak the kiwi
Tony Fortune
You ask...we play. On saturday mornings.
Anne Honey
I remember John Pike who lived in Cobden my favorite was a story of a girl who befriended a man on a beach who went to Dunkirk to rescue soldiers in his little boat. Her name was Frith. Thank you for remimding me lovely listening.
Maree Lawlor
Anne Honey loved that story
Garry Mcsherry
Anne Honey it was called the Snow Goose
Mary Costello
Sunday Mornings
Tania Newman
I used to borrow dad's transistor radio & listen to the stories with the earplug. Loved them
Christina Veale
When there is a fire in town quick, call the little engine, call the the little engine, call the little engine Flick.
Christina Veale
Fifty two cards, the serviceman who carried his bible in a pack of cards.
Heather Newby
Christina Veale yes.. i remember that too
Miles Reay
Deck of Cards
Brian Boustridge
Arthur Pomeroi and I wrote a small stage play on this when we were at Grey main. From memory the seargents name was Cutts or something like that
Maree Lawlor
And don't forget Hoppy and the lost gold mine!
Brian Boustridge
Could you imagine with PC today calling someone Gerald Mc Boing Boing!!!
Brian Boustridge
Yes and if you want to hear that again it’s on U Tube
Brian Boustridge
And the Denver Dragon as well
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Karla Skates
I remember listening to it and the bell would ring when it was time to turn the page. The very first audiobooks lol
Fe Armstrong
Sunday mornings - I recall buying the CD at some stage. Message me if you want a copy
Heather Newby
Jack and the Beanstalk.. Fe,fi, fo, fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!! Be he alive or be he dead
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
Gareth O'Connell
Badjelly the Witch was my fav. My girls still like it on YouTube.
Keren Bond
We had it on 3zb in chch. Pokey little puppy, flick the fire engine, little toot ... They were the best
Rosanna Anderson
Sparky the train and Flick the little fire engine were my favs
John Rosanowski
Rosanna Anderson "Left front wheel, left front wheel."
Anna Panther
Sunday morning & what about the other Sunday morning request session Country music - Nel & Patricia from Arthurstown always had a request in lol
Glenn Tomlinson
Gavin Yates had a program during the school holidays
Glenn Tomlinson
Any one know the title of the theme music?
Christine Rose Ashdown
Love Sunday morning requests , I sent in heaps
Garry Mcsherry
What about the troll
John Rosanowski
" Who pulled the emergency cord !! Who pulled the emergency cord !!"
John Rosanowski
No request session was complete without "Destiny." (Gil Desh ??)
Heather Newby
John Rosanowski and Robin`s Return ...and The Nun`s Chorus.
Glenys Malone
The Billy Goats Gruff Who’s that Walking on my bridge Trip Trap Trip Trap on my bridge O it’s you little billy goat Ha Ha Haa. I’m going to eat you up
Heather Newbyr
Glenys Malone Dad used to say to us when we were kids, that the Billy goats Gruff bridge was that little bridge on the way to Marsden Road
Valda Ford
Uncle John?
Marlene Coleman
What was the one set to classical music about a girl picking up golden apples?
Arthur Bass
Marlene Coleman Diana and The Golden Apples.
Marlene Coleman
Arthur Bass thank you. Couldn't for the life of me remember her name.
Margaret Mckee
And then there was "You ask we play" song request programme on a sunday
Margaret Malloch
Flick the little fire engine was one of many of my favourites requested so many and sat up close to listen to all other request programmes great times
Garry Dunn
Don't forget "Bad Jelly The Witch", classic.
Tim Mora
Garry Dunn read by spike Milligan
Garry Dunn
Tim Mora I've got a CD of it and played it on every road trip with my kids.
Elizabeth Ann Beech
The Enchanted Trumpet with Flytrap and 'shut up and let him get on with it'
Arthur Bass
Sparky.
Shona Ratana
I remember the story of sea creatures Used to stand on a chair to hear this with ear close to radio which was situated high in the corner of the kitchen because mum was cooking. Not sure what days of the week it was on. Loved these stories.
Trevor Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O3IzIzoVvk
Sparky and the Talking Train Alan Livingston 1947
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Sparky and the Talking Train Alan Livingston 1947
Betty Buckland King
It was on a sunday morning around 7.30am i think.
We used to listen every week.
Denise Bradley
Help me Sparky, help me sparky. What about Gerald McBoingBoing.
Denise Bradley
Was it Uncle John Pike?
Shona McLean
Denise Bradley used to love John Pike. Didn’t he have a program and had Simon and the gang. Someone will remember better than me. We used to send in poems and stories and what a thrill it was if yours was read out on the radio.
Shona McLean
Yes I remember
Mary Findlay
Yes he was amazing so many voices
Leo Fisher
denver dragon
James Codyre
Gosh there are a lot of "Old Buggers" on here with great memories.
Edwin Lord
Remember those good old days well used to sit around the radio to listen to them
Tim Mora
Little toot the tugboat
Amanda Harrington
Tim Mora oh yea loved that one to
Les Bryce
My favorite was Dianna and the golden apples.
Gary Sinclair
The Lone Ranger, the laughing policeman
Helen Ryder
Loved Sparky best and still love the radio.
Michelle Clarkson
I loved listening to them.
Diana Monahan
We listened also
Judy Davis
Sparky and the talking train
Brian Kelly
Judy Davis Right front wheel.
Jeff Sherman
The Denver Dragon !!!! Had so many notches carved into his pistol he whittled the handle clean away, lol.
Graham Messenger
The old radio stories were great. Heard them that many times that I can still recite some of them.
Jill Smith
My favourite was the porridge pot boiling over." Stop little pot your cooking is done theres quite enough porridge for everyone "
Marilyn Paterson
I loved The Snow Goose.
John Ryall
Marilyn Paterson
Carolyn Luck
John Pike was great with all the different voices he could do.
Mike Dunn
I can’t remember the name, but it went something like “is that as fast as you can go. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite so slow “ and “ thank you said Dunker, oh not at all said the hairy tailed commet”
I’ve tried googling the key words but no luck with a title.
Marilyn Hill
Yes sunday mornings
Pam Finch
wonderful memories we would have radio on awaiting thestart of the request session...
Jane Andrews
Yes, I do remember those on a Sunday morning!
Kaye Marilyn Power
Diana and the golden apples for me. Also how the koala lost his voice. Our father set up an extension radio so we could listen in our rooms.
Evelyn Hampton
Listened to this every weekend, I loved the stories..
Wayne Searle
How Kiwi lost his wings and the Koala that raced the Moon
Margaret McBride
you have a good memory Brian.
Jakh Heremia
Danny Kaye - The Ugly Duckling, The Kings New Clothes, The Little Matchgirl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Snow White and Rose Red and my favourite
Karin Baynton-Hunter
Sunday morning 700am.
Karin Baynton-Hunter
This was such a treat !!!
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This is from Paul Agnes Smith https://youtu.be/mLEy0MAnxoU
Keith White
LOVED listening to those! I pretended it was for the kids.....
Ray Douglas
I was doing the kids program for a while in the early 80's on Scenicland and we still played a number of these.. I remember Sparky the Talking Train, Gerald McBoing Boing.. and Flick the little Fire Engine (which was very popular even then..) How many people can remember the song... I bet Ivan Murray Wilson can..
Anne Kelly
I remember the holiday programme. I think they had competitions for all ages. Also the stories! Great memories!
Mark Ross
I remember those days! Bring them back
Keith White
Heather Newby, what a fantastic post! So many memories, and so many names I recognise among the respondents On a similar topic, when I moved from Greymouth to Christchurch in 1979, through the 80s there were similar programs. There was a clergyman who had recorded a series of children's stories and my kids loved them - almost as much as I did . They had titles like "Beatrice the Biscuit" and "Rupert the Raindrop", and they had moral lessons as their theme. Anybody recall those?
Rose Henham
What about rose y the. Riveter ???
Murray Webber
Yes I do
Denise Bradley
Did anyone ever participate in the quizz on the radio. I'm sure John Pike was the quizz Master and I remember winning a savings account from one of the Banks with 5 shillings deposited.
Alison Paulsen
Denise Bradley I took part in the quizzes and my greatest joy was to finally win the big prize, but in those days even 5 shillings in the bank was a big deal
Martin Griffin
No bet recall ringing in and winning a frisbee!
Ron Burt
The quizzes with uncle John
Judy Crestani
Loved the school holiday program. Me and Gary would sit by the fire and listen
Carol Jones
Bad Jelly the Witch
Judy Davis
I soooo envied the kids who had their birthdays remembered -and told to go look in the wardrobe etc
Anne Honey
Yes uncle John always remembered mine. Was at the hairdressers on my wedding day and he wished me all the best and played Elvis Presley singing Hawaiian wedding song. Best hair appt i ever had.
Kaye Brown
Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Peter and the Wolf. These stories were often read in conjunction with classical music, they were wonderful for the imagination and development of the ability to listen.
Susan Shearer
Yes I do
Sunday mornings always listening
Pamela Jones
Those were the days!
Tony Forsyth
The Golden Palomino and the Tale of the four Winds were ones I enjoyed (1950s)
Clarice Hutt
Yep, I remember these.
Bev Huston
Trying to remember the exact title of the exciting story about The lost silvermine..or Mystery of the lost silvermine....?
Margaret Kaa
Bev Huston Hopalong Cassidy and the Haunted Goldmine or was there a different one??
Heather Newby
Bev Huston I kind of remember that too
Bob Wright
Radio Ferrymead in Christchurch broadcasts a selection of these in the morning on the weekends
Trish Stewart
Every Sunday mornings I used to love listening to these Bad Jelly the witch was my favourite
Russell Knipe
And dont forget my all time favorite, The Trumpet of the Four Winds. "Oh shutup and let him get on with eeeeet".
Russell Knipe
I also remember being very young, sitting on the Kitchen bench next to the radio howling my eyes out, after listening to the story of the Statue and the Swallow. I was a very emotional wee boy of about 6 or 7.
Neil Martin
Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried,
To a sympathetic beetle by his side.
"I've got nobody to hug,
I'm such an ugly bug."
There's an ear worm for tonight!
Wayne Nicholson
" Run Millanion, Run".. I always remember that line from Diana and the Golden Apples.
Heather Newby
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Wayne Nicholson good memory
Christine Benjamin
And Hopalong Cassidy.
Les Holmes Germanicus
These stories need to be kept alive and about 10 years ago Coast FM were playing many of them on Lyn Griffiths' kids how early Sunday mornings and I would always listen in...until they stopped that in favour of that awful Suzy Cato PC radio show. I turned it off and now even that is finished so there is no show at all any more. A great shame.
Bernie Merrick
Ha loved Sparkey the Talking Train
Julie Taylor
Me to and Diana and the golden apples
Peta Jones
I just loved it so much! There were adventure sort of serials too.Michael Crighton
remember them well listened on my crystal set and ear phone
Christine Stewart
I remember these !
Sue Bousfield
Yes I remember them too.
Cindy Briggs
I've got the song from Flick the Little Fire Engine going through my head now........ "I'm a little fire engine, Flick is my name; They won't let me put out fires, isn't t… See More
Cindy Briggs I can’t get that song to stop now...
Cindy Briggs
Bruce Knight sorry!
Trish Briggs
You are not Cindy Briggs
Arthur Bass
My name is Maxie, I drive a taxi.
John Paget
Merv Smith used to narrate these stories.
Paul Agnes Smith
Gerald Mc Boinboing came up in a conversation I was having last week!!
Trish Rennie
And of course there were the Danny Kaye songs, Inchworm, Thumbelina, The ugly duckling, wonderful memories
Trish Rennie
Hop along Cassidy and the lost Dutchman’s goldmine….the bunyip n the moon….Peter Rabbit n Mr MacGregors garden….
Anne Bruce
Sadly, I can still recite Sparky & the Talking Train. These days I listed to audio books, there is something rather soothing listening to someone reading a storey out loud.
Ruth Naylor
There was the holiday program Gavin Yates did as well. There is these played on Saturday /Sunday mornings about 6-15 a.m.
Tony Kokshoorn
Shit yah. Great times. I am telling the grandkids the stories but they thing I have gone nuts.
Renee Panapa
I loved it. Finn McCoo
Naireen Bass
Diana and the golden apples was my all time favourite.
Murray Browne
I remember it well! We used to sit around the radio and listen to it!
John Paget
Before the programme went politiclly correct.
Margaret Malloch
sparky and the talking train was my usual request
Ivan Murray Wilson
Played a bunch of those in the 70s on the Children's sessions - loved Spike's Bad Jelly.
Annabel Boland
Loved those programmes.
Bev Tate
I definitely remember. My older sister and I were discussing these stories the other day!!!!
Joyce White
Yes I remember all those wonderful stories. I loved Sparky the talking train.
Grant Richardson
I do in the 80s bad jelly the - Flick the fire engine.
Ron Johnson
Uncle John was on at 5.00 pm I think. I certainly remember the other songs and programmes mentioned.
Craig Smith
Bad jelly the witch in the 70s
Margaret Elizabeth Carter
Yes I do
Judy Crestani
I remember the school program on the radio. Mum would put two chairs by the fire and we would listen while keeping warm. They also had good programs at night. I can remember out the Bach at christmas listening to spooky stories.
Ed Dando
Lved sparky - we were glued to that radio
PJ Spence
Had the 2x 78 records of The Happy Prince
Julie Cartner
Every Sunday morning. Liked Small One and Thd Happy Prince the statue and the bird
Terry Bradley
There was three volume set of children's request favourites. It was compiled by Don Linden, when he did an early Sunday morning show in the late 90's I'm not sure if they're still in the EMI catalogue.
I still play them from time to time.
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Rose Henham
The little tug boat..Haunted Gold mine.loved them all.oh Gerald Mc Boing Boing ?Be great to get some copies
Tania Tones Lawrence
Sunday morning sleep in's at Nana and Grandads house in Dobson. Nana would bring me marmite on toast and a cup of milo - while listening to the stories, "70's" Yes they spoiled me
Heather Newby
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The PC brigade would ban most of those stories these days
Vern Pattinson
I do very well
Wendy Bruce
School Holiday Programme with Gavin Yates
Noel Marie Batty
Remember the request session fondly, tucked up in bed, rain on the roof and Wondering about “ right front wheel, right front wheel” .
Aileen Thornley
Weren’t the stories played every Sunday morning about 7am?
School Holidays or not?
We were up bright and early to listen, simple happy times
I think Diana and the Golden Apples was my favourite
Don Allen
It was on a Sunday morning so parents could get they’re “sleep in”
Cyril Hector
And Uncle John (Pike), Pancho Gogglesnitch and Simon ...can't remember the programme name.
Sandra Rooney
Even at high school I kept up with the 5pm childrens hour.
Jakh Heremia
Uncle John.
Jakh Heremia
Peter and the wolf - the music made the story come alive
Sue McCallum
Remember uncle John growing up and I had honour to nurse him in his final days Morice ward
Kathy Marshall
Ferdinand the Bull and another one was Finn McCaul.
Sandra Rooney
Remember all those stories
Geoffrey King
Around 5pm on a Saturday hosted by John Pike
Raewyn Taylor
Oh my Goodness ,long forgotten memories !!!
Raewyn Taylor
And that story about the slimy slugs ???...
Deb Ramage
How weird, only thinking of Diana and the Golden Apples yesterday . Loved Sparky thinks the Train Talks.
Sandra Rooney
Listened regularly. Remember John Pike.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Remember it well, a lot of fun when a child
Margaret Kaa
I think Reo Murtha was on 3YZ in those days - I may be mistaken.
Margaret Kaa
Certainly do. We could write in and enter competitions, listen to stories etc. Great fun
Myron Caldwell
Was that on 3ZR back then????
Ron Johnson
Uncle John was on at 5.00 pm I think. I certainly remember the other songs and programmes mentioned.
Ruth Naylor
There was the holiday program Gavin Yates did as well. There is these played on Saturday /Sunday mornings about 6-15 a.m.
Theresa Gibson
We listened to a request session on a Sunday morning. The reception from the coast was near perfect on our car radio, not the best on the little Bell radio at home.
Stephen Hudson
Gavin Yates and Lasser's Trombone !
Rob Absalom
I'm a little fire engine Flick is my name, they won't let me put out fires isn't it a shame...
Maxine Morgan
Does anyone remember Maime Watson playing the piano on radio for schools. We used to sit on the mat at Taylorville school and sing along
Beverley Hooper
And Tommy Steel singing The Little White
Jo Hart
It was compulsive listening!
Kyle Webster
Bad Jelly the witch
Kyle Webster
Bad Jelly the witch
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West Coast New Zealand History (12th Jan 2025). Childrens` Request Session on the radio in Greymouth in the 1950`s - 60`s - ALBUM -. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 12th Apr 2026 13:38, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28768