For more than 30 years from the mid-1960s, BBC storytelling programme Jackanory featured the stars of the day, from Kenneth Williams to Bernard Cribbins, reading stories aloud – with the counterintuitive aim of encouraging young viewers to actually stop watching those square TVs and pick up a book instead.
Now, almost 30 years later, the spirit of the series lives on in BBC Four’s , this time reimagined to introduce adults to iconic British novels. Sam Selvon’s , Bruce Chatwin’s and Louise Levine’s have all been.
