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The Definitive Parent's Guide to CBeebies: The 40 Best Shows

Whenever,   as happens periodically, some government wonk threatens to axe CBeebies there is an outpouring of emotion from exasperated parents the tenor of which can only be described as feral. As the wrangler of a four year old I watch more children's telly than anything else. Should you wish to know who got knocked out of Bake Off I couldn't tell you, but if you were wondering which of the toys was missing from the line-up on last Tuesday's Show Me Show Me I'm on it like a shot (is it just me or is it always Miss Mouse?) And maybe it's just Stockholm Syndrome but I've actually grown to love quite a lot of the channel's output. Not everything, by any means. There is a special place in hell reserved for the likes of Kazoops!, Kate and Mim Mim and Waffle the Wonder Dog (possibly the single worst thing to befall Western Civilization, ever). But, by and large, most of the shows have something about them, be they educational, heartwarming or just gloriously