Making kids feel guilty about something over which they had no control and bear no responsibility is sick. Besides which, in many cases, it was our (the West's) demand for goods which brought prosperity and improved living standards to much of the New World. Can't the BBC just say they introduced tea-drinking in Victorian times? Nah, they need a socialist perspective. 
Pitchfork is right in stating that "The truth is never comfortable", and when it comes to ALL history, since time began, this is very true in varying degrees.
British history has also its moments of being hard to take, with certainly explotation of many foriegn populations in its desire to build an empire. When you say Nick it brought prosperity to the New World, you mean it brought prosperity to a few plantation owners, diamond mine operators, slave trade managers, etc., but to the masses it often brought slavery to a foreign master. This was of course very true for the home workforce, who worked in atrocious conditions for "the good of God, Queen and Empire!"
That is the truth of all the major empires of the past, whether we like it or not. However, a question has to be asked of the suitablity of very young children starting to know that truth in such a harsh way on CBeebies of all channels. The teaching of the harsh facts of history should be left to the schools, and certainly to the 11 year + age group. Hide the truth no, but certainly hold on from learning it until later as certainly happened in my case which did no harm to my involvement and learning of History.
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