Eleanor Morton
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1,691 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Eleanor Morton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this whole genre of moralistic teaching children good things through boring lessons, literature, quite rightly has been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Not to say that children's books don't have morals today, but I certainly think most good authors are a bit better about subtlety.
I think we've already covered a lot of what aged badly.
Is there anything you think aged badly that you want to highlight?
Yeah,
Okay.
But for children's literature.
Go on then.
Peter.
That's the whole impression.
Yeah, no, here's my impression.
All I'm saying is if women were from Venus, why aren't they... Why do they live here?
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babies?
I know that they live in the water and...
It's especially sad when you think that this was specifically written for his five-year-old, which meant his five-year-old had to listen to this every night for how many... You poor
Did he grow up to become a serial killer
Yeah.
Alistair, I think I know the answer to this, but would you read this book to your hypothetical child and what are they called?
Well, my hypothetical child is called Irish Steve and as he would be genetically an eighth Irish, that is too Irish for this book.
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