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- ↑ Ruth Inglis The window in the corner: a half-century of children's television - 2003 - Page 51 "Jonathan did the accompaniments for Jackanory, in which a personality, usually a West End star, read a story to the children. ... Jonathan Cohen says that everyone on Play School had a cut-glass educated accent and used 'received English."
- ↑ Kensington Post Friday 5 June 1959, page 7