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Five Children and It

Simon Godwin

Nicole Mowat

Charles Richards

Tamzin Audas

Laura Brattan

Jonathan Donne

Paul Shearer

Lewis Wilson

Alexander Wilson

Francis Wright

Penny Morrell

Marilyn Fox

Helen Cresswell

Five Children and It: Episode 5

Children's: Drama

Episode 5

BBC One - Five Children and It, Episode 5

Cyril wishes that the baby was grown up, and suddenly he is.

Dramatisation of E Nesbit's children's novel. Cyril wishes that the baby was grown up, and suddenly he is. The children try to stop him riding bicycles and romancing young ladies.

In 1902, four children and their baby brother are spending their summer in the countryside while their parents are away. While playing in a nearby sand pit, the children discover 'It', which turns out to be a Psammead, or sand fairy, thousands of years old and with the power to grant wishes. 

Cyril wishes that the baby was grown up, and suddenly he is. The children spend an anxious afternoon trying to stop him riding bicycles and romancing young ladies.

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Children's novel about a group of siblings who discover a creature that can grant wishes.

Six-part dramatisation of E Nesbit's classic children's novel about a group of siblings who discover a creature that can grant wishes.

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