Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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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. |