Verse.
When I was very young,1960's, at junior school I think, in a lesson at school one say, we had a verse played to us from a vinyl album, which I'm pretty sure was a BBC schools pressing.
Verse was about the different types of trees in an old English wood and the things the different woods were used for, and ends with the ASH tree being best of all.
I'm pretty sure it was read by Micheal hordern, but might be wrong, I know it's not my imagination cos I very recently bumped into a young woman who asked me if I knew about it and what it was called.!!
The copy they got played at their school was from a cassette, and she reckons a BBC schools product too.
Ring any bells with anyone ?
Happy belated new year..
No bells from me sorry. Had a quick google around and managed to find the meaning of tress as part of the essay series I suspect that's not it. Again will keep looking and thanks.
No luck here either. The closest I've found is this:
Could it be: https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=34153
Of all the trees in England,
Her sweet three corners in,
Only the Ash, the bonnie Ash
Burns fierce while it is green.
Of all the trees in England,
From sea to sea again,
The Willow loveliest stoops her boughs
Beneath the driving rain.
Of all the trees in England,
Past frankincense and myrrh,
There's none for smell, of bloom and smoke,
Like Lime and Juniper.
Of all the trees in England,
Oak, Elder, Elm and Thorn,
The Yew alone burns lamps of peace
For them that lie forlorn.
Walter De la Mare
Possible broadcast (as A Charles Wood song)
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5244316c5a6e438fa8b8eb0bfdb2f51d
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