The Invention of Childhood is a History Documentary programme.

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The Invention of Childhood: But Can She Spin?

Series 1, episode 9

Michael Morpurgo presents a 30-part narrative history series exploring a thousand years of British childhood. Girls in the sixteenth and seventeenth century were simply instructed that they should be seen and not heard. Read by Timothy West, Adam Godley, Anna Maxwell Martin and Sara Kestelman.