Childhood lasts a lifetime.” This much-quoted statement from Floella Benjamin was in the news again this week as the children ...

Enid Blyton, once the bane of British ... set about spoiling the children’s investigation by seducing Uncle Quentin. In the books, he almost never ventures out of his study, but here he was ...

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV ...

Television has lost its courage, the creator of Grange Hill said. Sir Phil Redmond, the creator of some of Britain’s ...

Jacqueline has recently been authorised to write books in Enid Blyton's renowned The Magic ... Her talk was followed by a Q&A session with the children. Those visiting were from Bolton-le-Sands ...

"Prior to Grange Hill, life was (like the world of children’s author) Enid Blyton, gentle comedy, there was (school comedy) Please Sir! on ITV, which was brilliant, but very gentle, it didn’t ...

He plumbs the evolution of children’s literature over the past 300 years in his quest for answers about the books that make the ... Kenneth Grahame, Enid Blyton, Rudyard Kipling, T.H. White ...

Prior to Grange Hill, life was (like the world of children’s author) Enid Blyton, gentle comedy, there was (school comedy) Please Sir! on ITV, which was brilliant, but very gentle, it didn’t ...