Parents and grandparents have been urged to read more stories to youngsters. And to celebrate 50 years since Jackanory was first commissioned, author Steve Cole gives his recommendations of some of ...

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Crackanory, which will be aired post-watershed by comedy channel Dave, boats guests including Harry Enfield and Jack Dee. Described as "a satirical and twisted grown-up spin on story time", each ...

Heart-throb actor Joseph Fiennes is to get fans' pulses racing with literary readings in an adult version of Jackanory. The Hollywood star - who starred in hit series Flash Forward - has been ...

Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins has said he would like to see the children's storytelling series Jackanory return in its original format. "I do wish that it could be brought back in the form that it ...

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As if by magic, computer-animated genies and goblins will bring Jackanory back to BBC1 next Monday after an absence of more than 10 years. John Sessions appears in Muddle Earth to narrate the first ...

The very name brings back memories of cosy teatimes by the fire and the simple pleasure of a good story. Now Jackanory, the classic BBC children's show, is about to return after a decade off air, ...

Earle, 87, was a private school teacher when he attacked the lad who was aged nine to 13 AN ex-Jackanory kids’ TV storyteller has admitted six sexual assaults on a boy six decades ago. John Earle, 87, ...

A FORMER Jackanory storyteller has been jailed for a series of sexual assaults on a young boy nearly 60 years ago. John Earle, 87, who narrated two Jackanory stories in 1971 and presented programmes ...

Academy Award and Bafta Award-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley, whose versatility has seen him play everyone from Gandhi to a gangster in Sexy Beast, is now turning his talents to narrating children's ...