A portrait of E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
Written and compiled by DORIS KER with Jill Bennett as E. Nesbit and Maurice Denham as Oswald Bastable
E. Nesbit , the great English children's Writer whose best-known books, The Railway Children and The Treasure Seekers, are read as avidly today as when they were first published almost 50 years ago, once wrote: ' 'When I was a little child I used to pray fervently, tearfully. that when I should be grown up I might never forget what I thought and felt and suffered then.' with the voices of PAUL GAYMON. KATE COLERIDGE MADI HEDD. PETER WOODTHORPE EMILY RICHARD , DAPHNE ROGERS SION PROBERT. LEWIS STRINGER Producer MAURICE LEITCH