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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame StreetÌýis released in the UK on 31 January. This feature length documentary provides a rare window into the first years of the ground-breaking children’s TV show.
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode embrace the nostalgia of the television that shaped their childhoods.
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Mark explores the impact of Sesame Street with Street Gang’s director, Marilyn Agrelo. He also reflects on one of the UK’s most popular children’s TV programmes,ÌýPlay School, with one of its beloved presenters, Baroness Floella Benjamin.
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And Ellen tests her theory concerning a unique connection between the world’s most popular children’s Youtube channels and early cinema with film historian, Pamela Hutchinson.
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Screenshot is Radio 4’s guide through the ever-expanding universe of the moving image. Every episode, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode journey through the main streets and back roads connecting film, television and streaming over the last hundred years.
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Producer:ÌýHesterÌýCant
A Prospect Street production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4