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Programme 6: Jacqueline Wilson
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Jacqueline WilsonAudio on demand of programme 6 is available 12/05/2006 - 18/05/2006

Click here to read a brief biography of Jacqueline Wilson.

Click here to follow a transcript of the programme in pdf format.

In the programme Jacqueline is interview by children from John Betts Primary School in Hammersmith, London. Click on the links below to hear Jacqueline's answers to their questions.

1. How did you get into writing and how long did it take you to get a story published?

2. Does writing come easily to you?

3. What keeps you writing?

4. How do you manage to write so convincingly as a child?

5. Is your understanding of children helped by having lots of contact with them?

6. Why are so many of your books about children with sad or difficult backgrounds and do you write them for children who are in that situation...or children who aren't?

7. Are any of the events in your stories based on your own life? For example, were you bullied at school?

8. When you were younger which of your characters do you think you were most like?

9. Are any of your characters based on people you know?

10. Your books are mostly about reality. Are you going to write any fantasies?

11. Are any aspects of your own personality revealed in your stories.

12. Why are Cliffhanger and Buried Alive the only stories you've written about boys?

13. With all the writing that you do is it difficult to find free time to do other things?

14. Why have you got so many rings?

15. What things do you really care about?
Links to other programmes:
1. Anne Fine   2. Eva Ibottson   3. Michael Morpurgo
4. Philip Ridley   5. Jeremy Strong   6. Jacqueline Wilson
7. Valerie Bloom   8. Brian Patten
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