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Five Children and It

Simon Godwin

Nicole Mowat

Charles Richards

Tamzin Audas

Laura Brattan

Francis Wright

Joyce Windsor

Lewis Wilson

Alexander Wilson

Marilyn Fox

Helen Cresswell

Five Children and It: Episode 3

Children's: Drama

Episode 3

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The children are stranded on the church tower when their wings vanish.

Dramatisation of E Nesbit's children's novel. The children are stranded on the church tower - the wings the Psammead had granted them have vanished. They shout for help.

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. 

The children are stranded on the church tower - the wings the Psammead had granted them have vanished, and all they can do is shout for help.

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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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