Kids' TV: The Surprising Story (2022)
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)
Janet Ellis
Peter Lord
Self
Zoë Ball
Self
Phillip Schofield
Self
Sarah Greene
Johnny Ball
Dani Harmer
Self
Phil Redmond
Cerrie Burnell
George Webster
Dave Benson Phillips
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