He then applied successfully for a job at the BBC advertised in The Listener, and joined Children's Hour at the beginning of 1935 as a staff accompanist, but it was soon found that he had the ideal voice for radio story-telling.
In the years that followed, he recorded many stories including Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, J.R.R.
[1] On 28 December 1935, Davis married Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh (1906–1982) at St. Peter's Church, Dunchurch.
She was the daughter of the artist Bernard Sleigh and niece of John de Riemer Phillp, joint proprietor of Dunchurch Hall, where Davis had taught.
Barbara Sleigh was employed by Children's Hour at the time, and she resigned according to BBC policy against married couples working in the same department.