Invention of Childhood, 1st of 6 [audio 60min]

In 6 hour-long episodes, Michael Morpurgo, former Children's Laureate of Great Britain, examines the stories of the lives of British children over the last thousand years, epoque by epoque. Episode 1: From the 11th to the early 16th century. Presenter Michael Morpurgo explores how the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest, the Black Death and the introduction of printing affected children from the 11th to the early 16th centuries. Read by Timothy West, Sara Kestelman, Anna Maxwell Martin and Adam Godley.