Radio: The New Shows

It's Fun to Know . . . (weekdays 4:30 p.m., CBS-TV) marks one of network TV's more ambitious attempts at educational programing. Aimed at the eight-to-twelve age group. It's Fun uses an adult moderator assisted by four or five children to show its viewers how to tackle such projects as making decorative wastebaskets out of old cardboard cartons, or learning how to dance. The naturalness, common sense and absorption of the TV children frequently rescue the show from the self-conscious and often patronizing delivery of their grown-up costars.

Ed Thorgersen and the News (weekdays...

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