From New York City radio's outstanding children's theater, Lets Pretend. Todays story with Uncle Bill Adams and the Lets Pretenders is Hansel and Gretel. 

Once upon a time there lived at the edge of the great forest a poor woodcutter and his two children Hansel and Gretel. Because the children's mother had died when they were very young their father had married again but his new wife was very selfish and cruel. Finally one night Hansel and Gretel overheard their stepmother urging a terrible plan on their father...