Invention of Childhood, 6th 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 6: Up to Date. Bringing his long story up to the present with the last compilation of Radio 4's major series"The Invention of Childhood", Michael Morpurgo traces how the immense economic and cultural changes of the last 50 years have affected the lives of British children. Do such changes herald the imminent disappearance of childhood, or will it go on reinventing itself indefinitely? Read by Timothy West, Sara Kestelman, Anna Maxwell Martin and Adam Godley.