Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes ever made and revealing chats with some of TV’s most beloved stars. But Konnie also tells a perhaps more surprising story: of how kids’ TV has frequently been at the forefront of social change, in terms of the stories it tells and the people who get to tell them.
Self
Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.
Commentator
A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's cabbage patch, Fiddler later persuades Magpie's Mum to give her daughter's snail collection to a French restaurant.
Valerie Singleton shows children of primary and middle school age how they can cross the road safely by following the Green Cross Code.
Herself
The history of the Aztecs, Montezuma and Cortez as told by Valerie Singleton.
Narrator (voice)
Produced and directed by sexploitation double-act Stanley Long and Arnold Louis Miller, NUDES OF THE WORLD sees a group of international beauty queens turn an English stately home into a nudist camp, with unexpected results. This movie broke box office records in London in 1961 and features narration by Blue Peter's legendary Valerie Singleton.
Woman in street
A white bus conductress is attracted by one of her regular passengers, a black serviceman, but then tires of him.
Narrator
Provides a thorough glimpse of the life of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother. Interesting historic archive footage of Elizabeth and King George with President Franklin D. and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, christening Cunard's QE ship, and in the ruins of Buckingham Palace during WW2.
