He was proud of the fact that children who had watched Magpie would hail him in the street 30 years later as briefcase-holding adults with, "Aren't you the man from Magpie?
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Bastable stopped presenting Magpie in , and became one of the programme's producers before moving on to present other Thames TV shows. In he began a two-year stint as co-presenter with Joan Shenton of Good Afternoon! The spin-off from this was Good Afternoon!
Money-Go-Round, a financial advice programme. Bastable presented two series of Problems , a programme on sexual difficulties screened late at night and with Claire Rayner with him in the first series, and Jenny Conway and Paul Brown for the run.
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His widening versatility for Thames included the Drive-In programme with Shaw Taylor from to , and also its successor Wheels from to He presented Miss Thames Television in , and in more serious vein wrote and presented , the ITV celebratory programme on the US bicentenary, and provided the commentaries for the award-winning historical series English Garden, which were delivered by Sir John Gielgud. The Bastable children, 6 in total, are in search of restoring the lost fortunes of the good Bastable family name. Their mother died several years earlier, and the business of their father is not good.
They each concoct a way in which they believe that they will be able to restore the lost fortunes. Chapter by chapter they each try their ways at encountering treasure. Their full imaginations carry the reader through a world in their minds which is perhaps much more real than the world which I have chosen to see. An imagination alive with the fire of youth.
Bernard Bastable
The imagination is not a hindrance, or a childish bane. It is the lens through which we see our world, the interpretive grid by which we understand what is beyond. Some of the bravest people in this world are under the age of Those who act nobly upon what they believe, not necessarily what has been proved to be true, are those with real courage. Anyone can walk to the bathroom at night because they have convinced themselves that no one is in the house. But the child who walks stiffly down the hallway when he is convinced that there is a robber in the house, he is the braver.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would have liked to see the ending changed to be more of a recognition of the true fortunes they possessed in their imagination and family. I laughed at parts, nearly cried at others. I find it odd that a book should be faulted because a reader doesn't understand all the references.
For me as a child, puzzling out what phrases like "Let dogs delight" meant was fun -- even when I never did figure it out, or didn't figure it out until years later when I came upon the source. That was fun, too: This was one of my favorite books as a child and I now think it is one of the greatest books ever written for children: I still laugh out loud when I read it, and I still admire the children enormously: Philosophically, I very much object to the idea that everything in a book should be easy to understand and known already to the readers.
Surely one of the joys of reading is to be exposed to new ideas, people, places -- to learn?
The girls form a society and call it 'The Society of The Wouldbegoods'. The boys aren't too keen on the idea. The New Treasure Seekers starts with the Christmas celebration and children's memories of the first Christmas after Mrs.
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After that the Bastable children start their journey to Miss Sandal's house by the seaside. The fun begins as the kids innocently get themselves into one adventure after another. Oswald Bastable and Others is a collection of short stories.
It contains four stories which complete the history of the Bastable family: