Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για Listen with Mother
1. Think of the uproar there‘d be if someone suggested calling a children‘s radio show Listen With Mother today.
2. They don‘t bat an eyelid about calling a BBC Three sketch show Tittybangbang – but Listen With Mother would be thought to be way beyond the pale.
3. Back before it was called Radio 4, the Home Service relayed the authentic sound of received pronunciation in the incarnation of Daphne Oxenford booming out of a beige plastic wireless set to invite me to Listen with Mother every afternoon. ‘Are you sitting comfortably,‘ Daphne would ask. ‘Then I‘ll begin.‘ I didn‘t say anything much until I was three or so, but when I did begin to speak it all came in a rush.
4. But most of all, what stops me from proclaiming Auntie‘s death sentence is Radio 4, which has been droning on in the background throughout my life, since the days when it was called the Home Service and my favourite programme was Listen With Mother (Posh voice: "Are you all sitting comfortably?" Tom Utley – and every other infant wag in the land: "No!" Posh voice: "Then I‘ll begin." Cue hysterical giggles). Scroll down for more ... Jane Garvey: ‘A massively middle–class bent to every programme on Radio 4‘ A brief digression: what a great deal that programme title tells us about how much Auntie has changed over the years.