What did you do for entertainment?

Well, in the summer time we would go out and play. Once the dark nights came out, you were inside with no light showing. The only thing we had was a radio, but some people had a gramophone. That was the only way to find out what was happening in the war. The radios were run by something called wet batteries, almost like a glass case with a metal handle and they had to get charged up again. The batteries were very small, but they were really heavy.

There were various over types of programmes on and there was children’s hour at 5 o’clock on the radio every night. You would properly laugh at the programs, we would laugh at them, they weren’t the same as your ones but they were as funny and we did enjoy them. So all the children listened to the children’s hour, then about lunch time, it was about twelve, there was a little program called Work Men’s Play Time for the factory men that made ammunition because the men were usually late. It was listened to by thousands of people, mostly women, over the lunch hour. Everybody usually listened to a small programme on Sunday which played what people would request.