Henry Jeffreys

Agitprop for toddlers: the oddly strident politics of CBeebies

Children's shows now put environmentalism ahead of entertainment

[STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images] 
issue 25 January 2014

I think I might be a bad parent; whenever my wife is out, I plonk our two-year-old daughter in front of the television. The other day we watched a rainbow nation of children marching around the British countryside singing ‘Let’s make sure we recycle every day’, and I realised that something has changed in children’s programming since I was little.

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