Kidlit radio #15

The coming week’s bookish radio delights to listen out for include:

Sunday 6 May

09:00–09:30 and 16:00-16:30 Radio 4 Extra JM Barrie – Peter Pan
Away to Neverland
1/4. A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one bedtime.

09:30–10:00 and 16:30-17:00 Radio 4 Extra Philippa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden
4/4. Tom makes a remarkable discovery at Ely Cathedral and meets the mysterious Mrs Bartholomew

07:55 Radio 4 Radio 4 Appeal
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Bag Books.

15:00 Radio 4 Classic Serial
The Great Gatsby, Episode 1
1/2. F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the fallibility of the American dream.

Tuesday 8 May

14:45–15:00 Radio 4 Extra The Invention of Childhood
17/30. Michael Morpurgo discovers how Victorian obsession with childhood – both real and romanticised – appeared in art and literature.

16:00 Radio 4 Word of Mouth – Chugger Chat
Michael Rosen tackles the language of chuggers and street vendors. Which words work best?

13:30–14:00 and 20:30-21:00 Radio 4 Extra Boxer and Doberman – Murder is Child’s Play
Rival Glasgow gangsters compete for a coveted children’s book award < what a synopsis for a radio play!

Thursday 10 May

11:30 Radio 4 The Library Returns
Jonathan Glancey argues that amid closures, the public library is also being reinvented.

All these radio programmes are available to listen to online worldwide, usually for one week after initial broadcast in the UK.