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Adventures in Junk
Alan Dein discovers the surprising history of the adventure playground, created in Denmark in 1943 and exported to Britain after the end of the Second World War.
Alan Dein discovers the surprising history of the adventure playground. The very first adventure playground opened in Emdrup, Denmark in 1943. As resistance grew against the Nazi occupation, two men pioneered a unique space, the children's world turned upside down.
They were forged in the ideas of modernist and radical architects and exported to a postwar Britain by the campaigning Lady Allen of Hurtwood. The rubble and rubbish of the nation's shattered cities were now reimagined as spaces for all sorts of adventures.
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Thu 7 Jan 2010
21:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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- Tue 10 Mar 2009 11:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 7 Jan 2010 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4