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Radio 4,30 mins

SeriesSeries 8

The Little Red Schoolbook

In Living Memory

Available for over a year

Contemporary history series. Jolyon Jenkins recalls the small paperback published in 1971 which advised children about sex, drugs and how to assert their rights at school. Although banned as an obscene publication, the book continued to be distributed by radical groups, becoming something of a cause celebre in the process.

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