Cult Icons: Jackanory (1965 - 1996)

BBC TV's JACKANORY: TELLING STORIES AT TEA TIME

For 31 years someone sort of famous sat in a chair reading a story. Long stories, short stories, tall stories, silly stories, adventure stories, fun stories and much more were told each weekday just as we trooped in from a hard day doing sums at school. For 15 minutes, we went someplace else. That place was our imagination and it was a wonderful place to be. All thanks to a simple and obvious fact - that kids love to listen to someone telling them a story.

 

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I'll tell you a story

About Jack a Nory;

And now my story's begun;

I'll tell you another

Of Jack and his brother,

And now my story is done.

   from "The Top Book of All, for little Masters and Misses" first published around 1760.