The Invention of Childhood is a History Documentary programme.

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The Invention of Childhood: The Vast Usefulness of Reading

Series 1, episode 8

Michael Morpurgo presents a 30-part narrative history series exploring a thousand years of British childhood. Education for boys expanded hugely during the seventeenth century. Read by Jack Blumenau, Sara Kestelman, Timothy West and Adam Godley.