Novelist Enid Blyton

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 5:45 p.m.

Janice Turner recently wrote a sweet, sensitive article about packing up the contents of her parent\u2019s house. \u201cThe experience was almost unbearable,\u201d she began. Among the items passed down from the attic, \u201cmy entire childhood,\u201d were a heavy sledge, Twinkle and Jackie annuals, \u201cand a heavy trunk of 60 Enid Blytons.\u201d

60 Enid Blytons - imagine that!

Janice Turner aka @victoriapeckham and winner of press interviewer of the year, is nominating Enid Blyton in a programme filled scandal, racism and lovely archive. Blyton was rejected in 2019 from a commemorative coin because of the controversy that continues to swirl around her work .... which include The Famous Five, the Secret Seven, and 24 books about Noddy.\nThe programme includes the biographer Nadia Cohen, the presenter Matthew Parris, and the producer Miles Warde.