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Noddy – BBC and SA

16/11/2009 by Nikita

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This news article caught my eye immediately. As a qualified library teacher (too), part of my job was to make sure only quality books were available for the kiddies to read in the school’s library. In our schools in South Africa, we used to have catalogues which contained only approved books. Approved books were books approved by Library Subject Consultants/Advisors. There were catalogues sent to the school’s library every three months with the latest approved books. Every book in the catalogue had an approved catalogue-number. You couldn’t have books on your library’s shelves without the approved number written on the title page. Enid Blyton’s books were also banned from our schools as they were seen as books with not much literary value. – It seems to me this is at least one thing the red necks and the boers agreed on. [hehe] Here is the complete article with the link at the bottom.

Enid Blyton banned by BBC for decades: memos

Popular children’s author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because officials thought her work “lacked literary value”, letters from the broadcaster’s archives showed Monday.

BBC executives turned down the chance to broadcast the plays and books of the creator of Noddy, the Famous Five and the Secret Seven because they were “such small beer” and had been produced by a “second rater”.

In an internal memo dated 1938, Jean Sutcliffe, head of the BBC Schools department, dismissed the work of the woman who went on to become one of the best-selling authors of her era.

“My impression of her stories is that they might do for Children’s Hour but certainly not for Schools Dept. They haven’t much literary value,” she wrote.

“There is rather a lot of the Pinky-winky-Doodle-doodle Dum-dumm type of name (and lots of pixies) in the original tales,” she added, before conceding they were “competently written”.

Two years later, the daily radio programme “Children’s Hour” rejected Blyton’s play “The Monkey and the Barrel Organ” because producers found its dialogue “both stilted and long winded”.

One team member wrote: “It really is odd to think that this woman is a best-seller.”

The released letters show Blyton realised she had been blacklisted.

After being invited to speak on a children’s programme in May 1949, Blyton replied to the producer: “I and my stories are completely banned by the BBC as far as children are concerned — not one story has ever been broadcast, and, so it is said, not one ever will be.”

In 1954, Sutcliffe explained that Blyton should not appear on the popular “Woman’s Hour” programme because the BBC risked becoming “just another victim of the amazing advertising campaign which has raised this competent and tenacious second-rater to such astronomical heights of success.”

Blyton finally appeared on “Woman’s Hour” in 1963, almost three decades after she first pitched ideas to the BBC.

She died in 1968 at the age of 71, but her books remain best-sellers today.

News-link HERE

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Posted in General | Tagged banned books, books, children's books, Children's stories, Enid Blyton, Noddy | 15 Comments

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  1. on 17/11/2009 at 12:33 boerinballingskap

    Ek het as jong seun grootgeword op Enid Blyton. Moedersmelk!


    • on 17/11/2009 at 16:46 Nikita

      hi Boer! Ja, ek stem saam met jou dat daardie boeke baie oulik is. Het jy die “Famous Five”-reeks gelees?


  2. on 17/11/2009 at 16:32 jameshigham

    And what is your response to he question I asked about her, Nikita?


    • on 17/11/2009 at 16:47 Nikita

      Hi James! I’m not sure which question you’re referring to?


  3. on 17/11/2009 at 16:59 Sandra

    Het ook die Famous-Five reeks gelees baie baie jare terug :-). Het self nog die boeke, maar my kinders wat in ‘n Amerikaanse skool grootword het net oor die boeke gelag? Nou wonder ek waarom.


    • on 17/11/2009 at 17:20 Nikita

      Ek was so pas op jou blog en hier’s jou boodskap! lol
      Die Famous Five-reeks is ‘n lekker avontuur-reeks, miskien het hulle die “avonture” snaaks gevind.. 🙂


  4. on 17/11/2009 at 18:17 Dan

    I’m beginning to think that the BBC “lacks literary value.”


    • on 17/11/2009 at 22:28 Nikita

      🙂


  5. on 18/11/2009 at 07:36 Vlam

    Ek kan dit nie glo nie! Ek het ook grootgeword op Famous Five en Secret Seven. Vandag kyk my laatlam na die Famous Five animasiereeks op TV! 😆


    • on 18/11/2009 at 15:07 Nikita

      Hi Vlam! Ek laaik van daardie “vlam”-avatar! dit lyk of jy kan “kwaai” wees, sjoe, dit lyk nogal “warm” 🙂
      Ek kan dink hoe jou laatlam dit geniet! Ek het nogal gehou van die Noddy-reeks. ‘n Vriendin van my was ERG oor Noddy – erger as ‘n kind.


  6. on 18/11/2009 at 11:51 boerinballingskap

    Het ek die Famous Five gelees? 😯 Wat bedoel jy, Nikita??? Hel, ek het ALLES gelees!


    • on 18/11/2009 at 15:06 Nikita

      Ok Boer, ek glo jou! 😆


  7. on 18/11/2009 at 22:03 Vlam

    Nikita,

    My ogies staan op stelte, maar ek is die boodskapper vanaand! 😆

    Kom pik ‘n traantjie. Kom wip ‘n woordjie. Kom se koebaai.

    http://delliesedinge.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/dont-cry-because-its-over/


    • on 18/11/2009 at 23:40 Nikita

      Dankie Vlam, maar verstaan nie mooi nie..Wippie en Snippie gaan ophou blog?


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