Invention of Childhood, 3rd of 6 [audio 60min]

In six 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 3: The 18th century. Pulling together the stories of childhood in the 18th century, Michael Morpurgo tells of the first Foundling Hospital, the impact of two great parenting gurus -- John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- and their battle over the nature and purpose of childhood, and he looks into the growth of a phenomenon which was entirely new to 18th century parents but all too familiar to those in the 21st century -- pester power. Read by Timothy West, Sara Kestelman, Anna Maxwell Martin and Adam Godley.