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The Invention of Childhood: The Grave and the Cradle

The Invention of Childhood

The Grave and the Cradle

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Invention of Childhood, The Grave and the Cradle

How the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest affected British children's lives.

Michael Morpurgo explores a thousand years of British childhood, the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest.

Children's writer, Michael Morpurgo explores a thousand years of British childhood, beginning with the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest.

Readers: Timothy West, Adam Godley and Anna Maxwell Martin.

Producer: Beaty Rubens
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

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Michael Morpurgo explores British childhood over the last thousand years

Michael Morpurgo presents a narrative history series exploring British childhood over the last thousand years

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