Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | Emil And The Detectives | 19990726 | 20010415 | How a gang of sleuths from Berlin became the first famous child detectives. |
02 | The Family From One End Street | 19990727 | 20010422 | How life with the Ruggles family was a pioneering but controversial portrayal of working-class life. |
03 | The King Of The Golden River | 19990728 | 20010429 | How the art critic John Ruskin wrote a fantasy tale for children, a decade before the Victorian craze for fantasy books. |
04 | Forever | 19990729 | 20010506 | The hotly debated history of Judy Blume's book about teenage sex. |
05 LAST | Tommy-thumb's Pretty Song Book | 19990730 | 20010513 | How the first nursery rhymes to appear in print were more spicy than their descendants. |