Monday 1 April 1963
Sir Edmund Hillary has halted his latest Himalayan climbing expedition and ordered his whole team to help fight a smallpox epidemic that is sweeping through Sherpa villages. Doctors are already in the district and vaccines will be flown in.
“There’s too much pop music on the radio. Two hours are devoted to it every Saturday morning and an hour every Sunday morning followed by more in the afternoon. And in the mid-week we have programmes like Get With It and Go Man Go. I’m all for music, but not this stuff.” - (Mrs) F Hall, Folkestone, Kent.
@HannahHowe this one reads like Mrs Trellis of north Wales.
@capnthommo Ah, the immortal Mrs Trellis
@HannahHowe one day someone is going to publish her collected letters.