The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books

Podcast: Witness History · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

When the first Winnie-the-Pooh book was published in 1926, few could have imagined that the stories of a honey-loving bear would capture the hearts of readers across the world. Author A.A. Milne based the stories on the toys belonging to his young son, Christopher Robin. The books would become a global phenomenon, but they also left Christopher with a complicated relationship to the fame that followed him throughout his life. Using BBC archive spanning decades, Gill Kearsley explores Christopher Robin Milne's own reflections on growing up as the real-life inspiration for one of the world's...