Dani Harmer

Tracy Beaker takes charge: Dani Harmer on her directing debut

When The Story of Tracy Beaker was first broadcast in 2002, there was no YouTube or Netflix streaming service, let alone TikTok. Kids, it is said, do not watch traditional TV anymore, yet millions grew up enraptured by Jacqueline Wilson’s care home rebel on CBBC, and now their own children are doing the same.