Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

58 mins | Documentary | Oct. 26, 2022

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.

Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

58 mins | Documentary | Oct. 26, 2022

Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

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.

Producers	BBC, BBC One, Mighty Productions
Original title	Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Directors	Linda Sands
Writers

Cast

Konnie Huq

as Presenter

Floella Benjamin

as

Claire Essex

as

Tim Smith

as

Janet Ellis

as

Valerie Singleton

as

Peter Lord

as

Jennie Brown

as

Emma Tolland

as

Zoë Ball

as

Phillip Schofield

as

Sarah Greene

as

Johnny Ball

as

Dani Harmer

as

Phil Redmond

as

Leslie Stewart

as

Roger Tonge

as

Cerrie Burnell

as

George Webster

as

Dave Benson Phillips

as