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The show typically centred on themes of books, poetry and literature. A typical episode featured a guest author or poet and often a trip 'on location' to an event related to children's literature. It could be considered a junior version of Radio 4's Book Club with an author being asked questions by the young fans in the studio: the 'g4it-ers'.
Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE (20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004) was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books. He also wrote the 1953 children's book A Funny Thing Happened which was serialised more than once on Children's Hour. He was awarded the OBE in 2003.
Jennings and his friends originally appeared on radio, the first play appearing on Children's Hour on the BBC Home Service in 1948. [5] The early books were largely based on the radio scripts. The signature tune was The Old Clockmaker by Charles Williams [citation needed]. "Jennings Goes to School" and "Jennings Again!"
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known.
BBC Radio 4 presented a reading by Andrew Burt of the novel in seven 15-minute episodes, abridged by Neville Teller, produced by David Johnson, and broadcast daily between 19 and 27 May 1975. An adaptation by John Constable as a single 90-minute drama for BBC Radio 4 , directed by Melanie Harris, was first broadcast on 18 March 1998.
A Sweet Pickles book. Sweet Pickles is a series of 40 children's books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter and published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, which have sold over 50 million copies. [1] The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and ...
Horatio Clare is a Welsh author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books, his travel and feature essays, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. A former BBC producer on Front Row ( BBC Radio 4 ), Night Waves ( BBC Radio 3 ) and The Verb ( BBC Radio 3 ), he presents the Sound Walks series on BBC Radio 3 ...
The Children's Hour, a 16-volume set of books containing stories appropriate for children and youths, published in 1953 and edited by Marjorie Barrows The Children's Hour , a novelette by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling, part of the Man-Kzin Wars series
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