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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

Oct 26, 2022
0h 58m
★ 0.0

Overview

Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes ever made and revealing chats with some of TV’s most beloved stars. But Konnie also tells a perhaps more surprising story: of how kids’ TV has frequently been at the forefront of social change, in terms of the stories it tells and the people who get to tell them.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Mighty Productions
BBC

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Cast

Konnie Huq

Presenter

Konnie Huq

Floella Benjamin

Self (archive footage)

Floella Benjamin

Claire Essex

Claire Essex

Tim Smith

Tim Smith

Janet Ellis

Janet Ellis

Valerie Singleton

Valerie Singleton

Peter Lord

Self

Peter Lord

Jennie Brown

Jennie Brown

Emma Tolland

Emma Tolland

Zoë Ball

Self

Zoë Ball

Phillip Schofield

Self

Phillip Schofield

Sarah Greene

Sarah Greene