The Wombles To The Rescue audiobook on BBC Radio 4
The abridged audiobook of The Wombles To The Rescue, read by Richard E Grant, will be broadcast in daily episodes for Christmas.
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New Wombles audiobook read by Richard E Grant on BBC Radio 4
This Christmas, BBC Radio 4 will be taking listeners on a host of festive Wombles adventures, narrated by Richard E Grant, directed by Johnny Vegas and based on Elisabeth Beresford’s original books.
Mike Batt at the BFI celebration of Children’s BBC
Mike Batt was interviewed about the Wombles at a special BFI event, A Celebration Of BBC Children’s Characters, on 13 July. The BFI also announced the...
Mike Batt at BFI Favourite BBC Children’s Characters
Mike Batt will be one of the guests at the Favourite BBC Children’s Characters event on Sunday 13 July, at the BFI in London. The BFI will take you on...
Radio Times: Vote for the best kids’ TV characters
Orinoco Womble appears on the cover of this week’s Radio Times magazine - along with Tinky Winky, Bob the Builder, Dougal and Shaun the Sheep. The...
Children’s TV On Trial
The Wombles are included in BBC Four’s Children’s TV On Trial week, which looks back at kids’ telly from the 1950s to the 1990s - you may have seen...
Bernard Cribbins among best-loved TV voices
Bernard Cribbins, the narrator/voice of the original Wombles TV series, was voted the fourth best-loved voice from British children’s television in a...
Most popular pre-school TV shows
The Wombles came joint sixth (with The Clangers) in a recent BBC survey on the most popular pre-school children’s TV shows of all time. The top five...