Narrated by Gerald Harper

Jack Donovan has a houseful and a life-full of Princely Toys. Any one of them alone would be a marvel, a priceless and irreplaceable memory of that 19th century art which could accept nothing but the best - and could afford to pay for it. It's a fair promise to say that you'll be delighted, intrigued, baffled, amused, and maybe, just maybe, led back into that delicious dream-world which started with the first teddy bear.

"The sugar plum of Christmas Eve was Ramsay Short's Princely Toys. Starting at clockwork models from Victorian and Edwardian times, Short and cameraman John Else shared their faintly sinister charm as fixed of eye and jerky of gait acrobats defied gravity, monkeys smoked cigars, and sculptors chipped at papier mache masterpieces." (Daily Mail)