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Imagination rules over reason in the BBC’s bedtime CBeebies hit In the Night Garden.

Eleanor Margesson

A large blue teddy-like creature throws himself on his back and squeaks. A colourful, rambling, trundley train with house-shaped carriages drives up and down a tree trunk. Ten peg-doll characters jump in and out of a teeny-tiny hole. These are the seemingly random events that connect with little narrative to create the dreamy, imaginative woodland world of In the Night Garden, voiced almost entirely by Derek Jacobi.