Let The Rumpus Begin

All this week, Michael Rosen unmasks the subversive past of classic children's literature.

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Wild Thing

19980511

19980907

How Maurice Sendak's drawings enraged the world's leading child psychiatrist.

Wild Thing

19980511

19980907

How Maurice Sendak's drawings enraged the world's leading child psychiatrist.

Babar The Republican

19980512

19980914

Could it be true that the world's favourite elephant is a political animal?

Rights Of The Child

19980513

Why Mary Wollstonecraft was a children's author before she was a feminist writer.

Pictures Of Innocence

19980514

19980921

Why illustrator George Cruikshank was a vicious satirist in his political sketches but a priggish moralist in his children's books.

Why Charles Dickens and his illustrator George Cruikshank had a bitter public row about the meaning of fairy tales.

05 LAST

Bows Against The Boarders

19980515

19980928

How the late Geoffrey Trease led the struggle against prewar children's books' obsession with boarding schools and the lives of the privileged.

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	Wild Thing	19980511	19980907	How Maurice Sendak's drawings enraged the world's leading child psychiatrist.
01	Wild Thing	19980511	19980907	How Maurice Sendak's drawings enraged the world's leading child psychiatrist.
02	Babar The Republican	19980512	19980914	Could it be true that the world's favourite elephant is a political animal?
03	Rights Of The Child	19980513		Why Mary Wollstonecraft was a children's author before she was a feminist writer.
04	Pictures Of Innocence	19980514	19980921	Why illustrator George Cruikshank was a vicious satirist in his political sketches but a priggish moralist in his children's books. Why Charles Dickens and his illustrator George Cruikshank had a bitter public row about the meaning of fairy tales.
05 LAST	Bows Against The Boarders	19980515	19980928	How the late Geoffrey Trease led the struggle against prewar children's books' obsession with boarding schools and the lives of the privileged.