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English: Meet the Authors
listenListen to an extract from the series Age 7 - 11
15 mins
Brian PattenBrian Patten

Audio on demand of programme 8 is available 26/05/2006 - 10/06/2006.

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

In the programme Brian is interviewed by children from Blackawton Primary School in Blackawton, Devon. Click on the links below to hear Brian's answers to their questions.

1. You were born in Liverpool just after World War 2. Was it a good time to be a child?

2. How did you end up living in Devon?

3. Did you like school and did you have a favourite teacher?

4. What first got you interested in writing poems?

5. Did you dream of being a poet when you were a child?

6. Who was your favourite poet or author when you were a child?

7. Which poet do you like now?

8. Have your poems always been humorous?

9. Where do you get your ideas from?

10. Do you write your poems on the computer or on paper?

11. Why do you write about serious subjects in a funny way and is it hard to do that?

12. Do your poems always rhyme?
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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

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