Any parents (or anyone else, for that matter) who find In The Night Garden strange and impenetrable, yet wonder why it is so popular with youngsters, should find the explanatory commentary by the programme's creator and producer here quite enlightening.
I did, and learned just why some of the ingredients are there and in their specific forms, some of which I had already worked out and others I had not. It's a fascinating look into a child's mind and how to structure a television series designed for them.
We were all children once, and we thought and responded to the world in essentially the same way ourselves, so (as I have sometimes thought) this is also a way to look at ourselves, as we were. The core essence of then remains with us today, though largely suppressed because of the needs and peer pressures of what surrounds us.
Below and behind our outward consciousness, though, is what we have always been, and the next time each one of us looks up at that extra-bright star in the night sky, I hope that we shall think of the Garden in the Night and never lose that vitally important sense of who we truly are and always have been, and not merely the part that the world sees of us today.
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