One of the unconsidered marvels of human complexity is our ability to recognise voices. That’s a great legacy but I think there was something more profound going on too. Jackanory’s 50th Anniversary Collection is on BBC Store The Railway Children read by Jane Asher: E Nesbit’s cherished story of the adventures of three Edwardian children. This is a full on and committed attempt to bring Ted Hughes to life on a tiny budget but with complete conviction… I’m only realising it now, but it must have affected me, cos that ingeniously created world and that commitment is something I’m trying to recreate now every day at work!” There are no layers of irony or nods and winks. “Looking at it now,” Brian wrote, “what grips me is the utter belief that production had in the importance of the story it was telling. Brian Minchin, the producer of Doctor Who, wrote me a long, lyrical email about how that Tom Baker rendition had influenced him. Phil called it his first water cooler moment - like watching Doctor Who or Game of Thrones. It broke every rule.” I felt very much the same about Kenneth Williams reading Noel Langley’s The Land of Green Ginger. “None of us could believe what we’d just seen.
Next day at school, everyone was talking about it: a water cooler moment based around a book. Read said that Rik Mayall’s rendition of George’s Marvellous Medicine, seemed to burst out of the television.
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