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Beano, Baxendale & Phoenix on Radio 4’s PM!
Posted: June 12, 2013
Amid the rather artificial media hullabaloo about Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall appearing in this week’s Beano to promote reading and healthy school lunches, I was called into the studio of BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme with Eddie Mair this afternoon to discuss the state of British children’s comics. Joining me on the phone was Terry Deary of Horrible Histories fame. I managed to give a bit of credit to Leo Baxendale, creator of Little Plum, The Bash Street Kids and Minnie the Minx, sixty years ago this year, and to The Phoenix weekly comics, even slipping in a plug for outlet Waitrose! You can listen in here for the next few days and the piece begins at 51.25 mins into the programme.
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