Ivor the Engine, Mr Benn, Mary Mungo and Midge - children's television animations that still capture the imagination, fifty years after they were first shown. For a little over a decade, from the end of the 1950s to the early 70s, the emergence of a new and exciting genre of children's entertainment produced a host of much loved kids tv. Made during an important phase in Britain's history, these creative and often unusual series shed their own light on the problems faced by the country, as it struggled to reinvent itself for the modern, post empire world. Not In Front of the Children looks at…mehr
Ivor the Engine, Mr Benn, Mary Mungo and Midge - children's television animations that still capture the imagination, fifty years after they were first shown. For a little over a decade, from the end of the 1950s to the early 70s, the emergence of a new and exciting genre of children's entertainment produced a host of much loved kids tv. Made during an important phase in Britain's history, these creative and often unusual series shed their own light on the problems faced by the country, as it struggled to reinvent itself for the modern, post empire world. Not In Front of the Children looks at this period of national upheaval through the prism of these shows and discovers a unique perspective on key issues such as motorway schemes, slum clearances, education reforms and the emergence of teen culture. Take a trip back in time to the world of your childhood years with this quixotic look at the age that made modern Britain. "From Ivor The Engine to Scooby Doo, Greg Healey has trained his lens on the cherished TV touchstones of a generation of children, simultaneously zooming in on the infinitesimal detail and pulling back to frame these programmes within an infinitely wider socio-political and cultural context. Meticulous, absorbing and revelatory, Not In Front of The Children lends beating hearts to hitherto two-dimensional cartoon characters, overturning many long-held assumptions and fallacies along the way. It's a story about us as much as it is about them - and you'll never think of those dreamily-remembered TV episodes in quite the same way again." -Marco Rossi, Record Collector Magazine, Shindig! Magazine.
Greg Healey is a British author, music journalist and musician. He is the author of the acclaimed popular history book Not In Front of the Children: Hidden Histories In Kids' TV, which was a Spectator magazine Book of the Year 2018, the Shindig! magazine Book of the Year 2018, and a Goldmine magazine Book of the Year 2018. Not In Front of the Children: Hidden Histories In Kids' TV was described by Julie Burchill as "a social history of great depth and erudition". He is the author of Black Sabbath: Magic Myth & Mayhem and was the co-author of the biography Sharp! Flicknife Records and Other Adventures, with its subject Frenchy Gloder. Greg has been writing about music and broader cultural issues for over ten years. He has been a regular contributor of features, interviews and reviews to Shindig! magazine since 2014, was a staff writer for the American magazine Redefine and the Creative Commons music bible, Phlow. Greg also releases music, under the name the Lounge Bar Orchestra, through the Fruits de Mer record label. A celebration of the golden age of TV and film music, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Lounge Bar Orchestra has been described as "music I could live inside" and "a fine evocation of the classic TV themes/library music sound, done by someone with a clear love for those scores".
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