Playtimes: Continuity and Change
Channel: British Library
Date: 2016-10-13

Professor Andrew Burn and Steve Roud discuss how childhood has changed over the last few decades. They examine the impact that more highly regulated play and the media have had on children’s play and discuss the paradox that is the continuous yet constantly changing nature of children’s games.

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