Does anyone remember two way family favourites?

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Do we still have standard postcards these days?

Anyway, who can afford a stamp?

Usedtobeblonde

I used to pick the leaves and make the mint sauce which went with the lamb when we had it and I sharpened the carving knife on the back doorstop.
I still have that knife nearly 75 years later with the middle of blade worn down to about half an inch and the ivory coloured handle stained a light brown colour.
Of course it hasn’t been used for many years.

I’d forgotten about making the mint sauce. That was also my job.
I still have my late MiL’s kitchen/carving knife. She used it for everything. I find it very easy to sharpen so maybe she used the doorstep as well.

Memories for me too. Always The Archers, followed by FFs, then my Dad would wash up while my DGM popped in for coffee (we lived in the same street). She liked Mantovani and his cascading strings and I’d sometimes go to Evensong with her to make sure she was safe. I thought Little Jimmy Clitheroe was hilarious - if it’s time, of course.

I found ‘Sing Something Simple’ rather poignant somehow.

It was on at about 6pm, as I recall, and meant it was school next day!

I remember it well, we listened wherever we were stationed, it makes me think of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

I also remember Letter from America, was it presented by Alistair Cook? it was always so interesting, he had a very soothing voice.

A must every Sunday

RAF Akrotiri used to get mentioned occasionally on Two Way Family Favourites. It's only this year that I've learned how it's spelt! I used to think it was Aqua-teeri

Oh yes! As I read that an image of my mum stirring Bisto into the roasting tin to make gravy came to mind.

LadyGracie

I remember it well, we listened wherever we were stationed, it makes me think of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

I also remember Letter from America, was it presented by Alistair Cook? it was always so interesting, he had a very soothing voice.

It would be interesting to hear Letter from America at the present time, for sure.

Retroladywriting

LadyGracie

I remember it well, we listened wherever we were stationed, it makes me think of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

I also remember Letter from America, was it presented by Alistair Cook? it was always so interesting, he had a very soothing voice.

It would be interesting to hear Letter from America at the present time, for sure.

Wouldn't it just!!
I used to enjoy that programme.

Yes we always listened to it, Jean M went on to present Women’s Hour for many years. We had the radio on all day and I still put ours on as soon as I walk into the house , drives everyone else mad.

I think I could still remember the day’s listening. At the weekend it was Children’s Requests on Saturday, Two Way Family Favourites on Sunday, plus Take it from Here or when I was very young, Meet the. Huggets.

During the week: Housewives ‘ Choice, Music While You Work, Workers’ Playtiime - all listened to whilst Mum did the housework.

Children’s Hour was as must, I loved all the dramas : Ballet Shoes, The Lone Pine Five, Jennings at School, Cowleze Farm, oh and Norman and Henry Bones. The music played introduced me to classical music. So much more memorable using one’s imagination rather than TV. I do not think my children will have such vivid memories of their programmes.

LadyGracie

I remember it well, we listened wherever we were stationed, it makes me think of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

I also remember Letter from America, was it presented by Alistair Cook? it was always so interesting, he had a very soothing voice.

Ooh thank you for reminding me I have 2 boxed sets of these programmes
I too found AC’s voice very listenable
I shall start playing them tomorrow a trip down memory lane.

We always ate Sunday dinner in the evening. I can remember listening to Sing Something Simple while doing the dishes with my sister as quickly as possible to get out to play.

Yes - I remember this being played on Sunday.

On Saturday mornings on the radio Uncle Mac played songs for children.

Workers Playtime. And Wilfred Pickles…. ‘Give him the money. Mabel.’

Such happy memories of this and other radio shows of the 50s! We had the radio on all the time.
I was sad when Mrs Dale's diary ended! Always more my thing than the Archers!

Anyone remember Dick Barton, Special Agent?
My brother loved it. 🙂

The name changed to just Family Favoutites but it ran from 1945 until 1980. My mother had it on the huge wireless on the sideboard, it would be playing when I got back from Sunday School through the 1960s.

What a great thread. I remember all the programmes mentioned and Family Favourites also evokes memories of the smell of Sunday lunch.

We used to hear Ted Ray, Archie Andrews, Workers’ Playtime and the 6pm Sing Something Simple. That tune is going around in my head now.

Yes Allira, my brother also loved Dick Barton and he used to sit with his ear to the wireless so that he could hear it properly.

We also used garden mint and vinegar for the mint sauce but when I later discovered mint sauce in a jar I much preferred that.

Pudding back then was often apple and custard or sometimes with blackberries added.

I can still smell those roast dinners. Usually beef or lamb. Chicken would have been a luxury.

Lovely to read peoples’ memories.

Yes Jean Metcalf had a lovely speaking voice and Cliff Mitchell Moore completed the warm two way relationship. The music choices were of their time and so enjoyable. Then there was Educating Archie, Peter Brough, The Billy Cotton Band Show.Beryl Reid and I believe Julie Andrews. When the children were babies I belonged to a Young Wives Club and Betty Hardy from Around the Horn came to talk to us. She was really friendly and so interesting. I mentioned I thought Michael Redgrave was a better actor than Laurence Olivier (on reflection that was daft). She said she would tell him! On another day of the week there was Take it From Here. Jimmy Edwards as the dad while the couple sat on the sofa saying “
Oooh! R-o-n (June Whitfield) and Peter …….replying Oooh! E-e-th. Happy times.

Ps that came out wrong. Beryl Reid and Julie Andrews were with Archie and Petr Brough.

Incredible that roast beef and lamb were weekly meals. Arm and a leg prices now.

HelterSkelter1

Incredible that roast beef and lamb were weekly meals. Arm and a leg prices now.

Chicken was very expensive!

Yes, and Children’s Favourites! I used to have a cassette of the favourites, including the typewriter one, Nellie the Elephant, Little White Bull, etc.

A couple of years ago I found on YouTube a cartoon version of Nellie the Elephant - the original Mandy Miller version. The Gdcs loved it!

Allira

HelterSkelter1

Incredible that roast beef and lamb were weekly meals. Arm and a leg prices now.

Chicken was very expensive!

Yes, chicken was hardly ever a thing when I was a child. We almost always had beef or pork - my father disliked lamb - he called it Dead Sheep.
I loved chicken - no fat! I loathed all meat fat - still do.