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Dec 11, 2015 · On the 50th anniversary of Jackanory, Frank Cottrell Boyce on the massive impact of listening to Rik Mayall, Kenneth Williams and others read out loud on TV. Discover more great stories on the ...
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996. It was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, and the first story was the fairy-tale "Cap-o'-Rushes" read by Lee Montague.
- 3640 (2330 missing)
- Children's television
- 13 December 1965 –, 24 March 1996
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Jan 24, 2017 · Joy Whitby, creator of Jackanory – the BBC’s groundbreaking reading show that ran from 1965 to 1996 – tells us how the programme came into being, and why we’ll never lose our appetite for stories to enrich our lives.
Mar 1, 2018 · Comments. 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....
Jul 4, 2005 · Children's storytelling programme Jackanory, which saw a revolving cast of big names reading children's books, is to become the latest much-loved show to be revived. By Owen Gibson and Maggie Brown.
In her book, Box of Delight's, Anna Home remembers: "It was agreed that the series would include all kinds of stories from traditional folk tales to Greek myths and legends and readings from well-known books."
