Toytown

Toytown is the name given to a series of radio plays written by S.G. Hulme Beaman and broadcast by the BBC from 1929 to 1932, 28 of which regularly repeated on Children's Hour[1] until 1964, by which point it had expanded into a media franchise.

[3] It consistently headed the votes for Request Week on Children's Hour for twenty-five years,[4] was believed to be more recognisable than Alice in Wonderland[5] and was seen in over two dozen territories around the world.

This changed when Derek McCulloch, who narrated the series and voiced him all the way until the end of its run, asked Hulme Beaman to give Larry a bigger role.

Inspired by Walt Disney’s early cartoons, Hulme Beaman experimented with marionettes and animation with Pathé, adapting his radio play The Arkville Dragon for this medium.

[3] The first radio performances were as follows: The Noddy stories, written from 1949 to 1963 for children by author Enid Blyton, take place in a location called Toyland, which in some media is misnamed as Toytown.