Cigarettes grow on trees
A dragon dies of grief
An Emperor in the all-together
Children's Favourites with Uncle Mac
on a Saturday morning'
Hello Children, everywhere''
Greetings pop pickers'
Fluff Freeman plays the hits
In needle time
Will Dusty still be number one?
Test cricket on the Third Programme Tchaikovsky and Sibelius give way
To Trueman and Statham
Who give way to the rain
'Little prospect of play today'.
And all free on the BBC
Pirates play pop without permission
Rock around the clock for profit
Remember tiny radios
Under the bed clothes?
All change at the BBC
Accents and idioms -the full Englis
Replace posh pronunciation
No longer cool
To have gone to public school
But much remains
'Here is the news, the weather forecast'
Big Ben chimes the time
The Archers began in 1951
Company for the lonely
Solace for insomniacs
Radio adapts and develops
Podcasts and dabs
Mostly still free
And we still have the BBC
By waves and wires we are connected
Around the world
Beyond?
Is there life on Mars?
Thank goodness for Radio 4 extra
And the day used to end peacefully at midnight with Sailing By. Now it never ends! Lovely poem, thank you.
Brought back memories of listening to radio, Caroline and radio Luxembourg under the bed clothes when I was 14…. Good times..nice work Jim
Yes Jim,
There is life out of the UK. The BBC keeps people in the US up on the latest Masterpiece Theater. I always enjoy reading your poems.