FACTUAL
17 March 2008
Monday 17 March 2008 15:45-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explores life in the playground today.
Fifty years ago, Iona and Peter Opie began their ground-breaking research on the games and songs, jokes and riddles, fights and friendships which fill the break-time of children up and down the country. Even in the 1950s, there were mounting anxieties about the lives of children and the effects of consumerism and the media. These anxieties have now grown to become one of the greatest concerns of modern British life.
Studio guests are folklorist Georgina Boyes, children's language expert Dan Jones and child psychotherapist Biddy Youell.
Followed by News.
