I woke up this morning with an insistent little voice in my head berating me.
"You must be getting old, you silly bugger. You think you're clever because you know the answer to 161 Across. But, it's got nothing to do with winning a prize when you were 12. You had come across the answer long before that."
I thought about it and the voice was right. I had come across HMV products long before that and, particularly one which was badged 'Little Nipper'.
When our family moved into our first Gwyneville house in Northfields Lane (in 1952) we had very llitte furniture. Mum and Dad bought beds, of course, a laminex table and chairs for the kitchen and an icebox ... and not much else. Except, a little HMV radio, covered in brown and cream bakelite with the famous logo and the words Little Nipper.
That radio spent most of its time on the mantelpiece in the loungeroom and we listened to Bob Dyer and Jack Davey, and various serials like Martins Corner. We had nothing to sit on so we would drag the mattress off one of the beds and settle down. The radio might have looked like this:
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