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Five Children and It

Simon Godwin

Nicole Mowat

Charles Richards

Tamzin Audas

Mary Conlon

Paul Shearer

Lewis Wilson

Alexander Wilson

Francis Wright

Penny Morrell

Ron Welling

Jonathan Donne

Marilyn Fox

Helen Cresswell

Five Children and It: Episode 6

Children's: Drama

Episode 6

BBC One - Five Children and It, Episode 6

The children get into a ghastly mess, but the Psammead is nowhere to be seen.

Dramatisation of E Nesbit's children's novel about siblings who find a sand fairy. The children get into a ghastly mess, but the Psammead is nowhere to be seen.

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 get into a ghastly mess, but the Psammead is nowhere to be seen.

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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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