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The Famous Five on CBBC tonight

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NanKate Sat 09-Dec-23 09:11:12

For Enid Blyton fans this series starts tonight on CBBC at 5.25PM. Of course you can watch it on IPlayer too.

I know some of the values of that time are dated and out of touch with how we live our lives now, but for many of us Enid Blyton got us into reading for life.

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LadyGracie Sat 09-Dec-23 09:25:23

Thanks NanKate
I’ll record this for our 6 year GD who loves Enid Blyton, as do I

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NanKate Sat 09-Dec-23 09:30:19

Good idea LadyG I shall do the same. My DGSs 12 and 10 still love Sooty and fall about laughing at the antics of Sooty and Co.

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Grandma70s Sat 09-Dec-23 09:34:09

I’ve said elsewhere that I always disliked End Blyton as a child. I thought the children were just so boring, compared with say, the children in Noel Streatfeild’s books.

Now, though, I enjoy her books as portraits of the age they were written in, so I shall watch, if I remember!

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Grannybags Sat 09-Dec-23 10:21:34

I saw an clip of it and it seems the characters have been 'modernised' I don't think it'll be anything like the books unfortunately.

George was my idol and I was desperate to own Timmy!

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Chestnut Sat 09-Dec-23 11:52:20

Thanks for posting that. I was a big Famous Five fan and loved a good adventure! I hope they at least keep this in the right time period. My 8 year old granddaughter loves Mallory Towers and that has been kept in the right period. She also loves The Railway Children and is apparently the only one in her class who has seen it. They are reading the book.

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mokryna Sat 09-Dec-23 17:11:00

Yes, I just sat down to watch it.

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