Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

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.

Cast

Konnie Huq

Presenter

Floella Benjamin

Self (archive footage)

C

Claire Essex

T

Tim Smith

Janet Ellis

V

Valerie Singleton

Peter Lord

Self

J

Jennie Brown

E

Emma Tolland

Zoë Ball

Self

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