This isn't one of my child hood beliefs, but my Mum's, but when she told me, I couldn't resist but to tell the world!! When she was young, she thought that the weekly British Top 40 singles chart, was selected by HRH The Queen, depending on what records she'd been listening to that week!!!!!
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- I used to think vending machines had a person inside, who would hand you the item that you'd selected.Anon
- I used to think that the starwars weekly comic wasn't very strong.. duh.— TAM
- I used to believe that my mum was the queen. She does look a bit like the queen... minus the orb and sceptre.— Vix
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- I used to believe that anyone who wasn't British (as I am) thought of themselves as foreigners!— "velveire"