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111. 17K views 2 years ago. A look back at the history of the hugely popular children's series, Jackanory, in which a well-known actor would read a book to camera alongside...
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Jackanory succeeded in persuading many reluctant readers to pick up a book. The success of spin-off Jackanory Playhouse encouraged the BBC to develop more children's dramas, such as Jonny Briggs.
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- Illustrating The Tale
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Jackanoryhad to fill a 15-minute slot every week day – as it turned out, for 31 years. The budget was small and we were studio-based so we had to be inventive. One week, there might be a collection of related picture books – Peter Rabbit on Monday, The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle on Tuesday, and so on. Another week, there might be a novel, such as The...
From the beginning, we experimented with different kinds of presentation. Talking straight to camera. Or using images projected on a screen behind the storyteller, so that he or she appeared to be sitting in a garden or by the sea. I remember the younger Steptoe, Harry H Corbett, dropping by parachute to land on the white, wrought-iron bench that w...
The digital age has changed our viewing habits but not our appetite for stories. However we access them, child or adult, stories enrich our lives. They enlarge our vision, introduce new ideas, show us how other people think and live. They challenge our wits. Make us laugh and cry. From the days of sitting round a fire entranced by the saga of Beowu...
Jackanory: Created by Mary Tourtel, Alfred Bestall, Joy Whitby. With Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Williams, Martin Jarvis, John Grant. A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.
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Mar 1, 2018 · Today (Thursday 1 March) is World Book Day, to celebrate we have picked out a few of the books and their narrators who featured on the classic BBC Children's series, Jackanory. Jackanory began in ...
Jun 13, 2021 · Never watched Jackanory, I was 21 and had left home when it started to air in 1965. Apparently there was a story telling prog before it for a short time and which was the source of the idea for Jackanory. Hubby, being a bit younger than me, says he loved it. He still watches kids programmes and cartoons from time to time. Keeps him young he ...
Dec 31, 2014 · In November 2006 Jackanory briefly returned with comedian John Sessions as the revived programme's first narrator reading the Lord of the Rings parody Muddle Earth, written by Paul Stewart (and illustrator Chris Riddell). The second narrator was Sir Ben Kingsley, reading The Magician of Samarkand by Alan Temperley.
