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English: Meet the Authors
listenListen to an extract from the series Age 7 - 11
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Jeremy StrongJeremy Strong

Audio on demand of programme 5 is available 05/05/2006 - 11/05/2006

Click here to read a brief biography of Jeremy Strong.

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

In the programme Jeremy is interviewed by children from Batheaston Primary School in Bath. Click on the links below to hear Jeremy's answers to their questions.

1. Where did you grow up and did you have a happy childhood?

2. A lot of your stories are about brothers and sisters. Do you have any brothers and sisters and did you get on with them as a child?

3. Did any of your teachers at school make writing come alive for you?

4. Your stories are a bit like cartoons. Did you like reading comics when you were a child?

5. When you were a child did you dream of becoming a writer?

6. What stories did you like reading as a child?

7. Are any of your characters like you, or based on people you know?

8. On your website it says you've had a lot of accidents. Is that why so many disasterous things happen to your characters?

9. You obviously find a lot of things funny. What makes you laugh the most?
 
10. Did you set out to write books that make children laugh or did it just happen?

11. Where do you get your ideas from?

12. What sort of things 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
Find out more about school twinning



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