Mike Teavee.Remember him?
The boy who watched television morning, noon and night in the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.This spoilt brat had a lifestyle to be truly envied as a young reader – that is, before he was shrunk into a television set at Willy Wonka’s factory.
My parents wouldn’t let me watch much television – but I wasnt missing much. Choice for children was pretty poor and the remote control had yet to be invented. But now my own children are bombarded with far more options – and have their own Mike Teavee cravings.
There is no better way to put it than in the words of the Oompa-Loompa poem as written by Roald Dahl about the qualities of telly during a trip to the Willy Wonka chocolate factory. Here is just a taster…
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