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English: Meet the Authors
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Anne FineAnne Fine

Audio on demand of programme 1 is available 07/04/2006 - 13/04/2006

Click here to read a brief biography of Anne Fine.

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

In the programme Anne is interviewed by children from Barnard Castle Primary School. Click on the links below to hear Anne's answers to their questions.

1. When you were at primary school did you enjoy writing stories and did you ever think your work would be published?

2. What first started you off writing books?
 
3. Where do you get your ideas from and have you ever run out of ideas?
 
4. You seem to know a lot about children. Do you understand them because you've had the same experiences as the children in your books?
 
5. Basically you're putting your emotions into the characters in the books..?
 
6. You write a lot of stories about animals. Do you have any pets and if you do are they naughty like Toffee in 'The Diary of a Killer Cat'?
 
7. Are any of the characters in your books based on people you know?
 
 8. You seem to be quite a chirpy person - does that help to make your books funny?

9. Do you think it helps to laugh about 'serious' things?

10. A lot of your characters write their own stories. Why do you like working in the first person?

11. You don't give a lot of detail about where your stories are set. Why?

12. How much planning do you put into your stories?

13. Is someone asked you what the point of your writing is, what would you say?

14. Is there someone you wish you could have been, or something you'd still like to do?

15. What do you really care about?
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Summer 2006

1. Anne Fine
07/04/2006
2. Eva Ibbotson
14/04/2006
3. Michael Morpurgo
21/04/2006
4. Philip Ridley
28/04/2006
5. Jeremy Strong
05/05/2006
6. Jacqueline Wilson
12/05/2006
7. Valerie Bloom
19/05/2006
8. Brian Patten
26/05/2006

Additional Resources

Click on the programme titles to open an audio clips library in which each author talks about their work.
See also
BBC World Class

BBC World Class
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