There was an article on The Message (Radio 4) today about children's TV programmes. It featured a Wombles' viral to illustrate the fact that only 1% of children's TV programmes today are made in Britain. A number of children were interviewed for the radio programme, and only one of them mentioned a British programme as amongst their favourite programmes (Tracey Beaker) - all the rest were American (Eg The Simpsons, Sponge Bob Squarepants, and others that I hadn't heard of).
It got me thinking about my favourite programmes as a child, so, in no particular order, other than the way they come to my mind, here they are (well, some of them anyway!):
Mr Benn (YouTube link)
Bagpuss
The Flumps (YouTube link)
Let's Pretend
Button Moon (although I associate this more with my sister, for some reason - she's younger, so maybe I watched it with her or something) (YouTube link)
Bric-a-Brac
Grandad (YouTube - Clive Dunn singing "Grandad")
Chock-a-Block
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King Rollo
Rhubarb and Custard
Thimblemouse
SuperTed (YouTube link) (The Official Website)
Pigeon Street
Sesame Street
Sooty and Sweep
Trumpton
Rentaghost
Playschool
Bertha
... and many more! And I think that most of these are British ...
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- From Ganglands to Promised Land - John Pridmore
- Chicken with Plums - Marjane Sarpati
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
- Disgrace - JM Coetzee
- The Outsider - Albert Camus
- A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
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- The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
- Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
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- Checkmate - Malorie Blackman
- Just in Case - Meg Rosoff
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- Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
- Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
- After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
- The Breast - Philip Roth
- Silk - Alessandro Baricco
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Like the Flowing River - Paulo Coelho
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
2 comments:
I remember many of these fondly - dad got us a copy of Bagpuss for the girls but it doesnt compare with Thomas The Tank Engine for them! Surely the younger kids programmes are British, ie Thomas, Charlie and Lola, Teletubbies etc? They certainly have British accents. One friend said her 4 year old wandered around the supermarket asking to see a tomayto (as opposed to a tomarto!) after hearing it on an American programme, and refused to believe the two were one and the same!
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