Kjartan Poskitt: Authors Live
Murderous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt
Authors Live - Michael Morpurgo - Full session
Michael Morpurgo talks about writing and tells some stories to school children. Recorded live at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Michael Rosen talks about writing being his best friend and performs his poem The Space. Michael Rosen tells the story about his dad's sayings and how his brother would mimic and exaggerate them, including 'the Noise!'
About Kjartan Poskitt
Kjartan Poskitt is a freelance everything. Since getting his engineering degree he's worked as a TV presenter, has written many theatre shows and played a lot of pub pianos very loudly! His books include Isaac Newton and his Apple and the ingenious Warp Maze illustrated by cartoonist Stephen Appleby. His notorious Killer Puzzles series and books on magic tricks and secret codes have made him a firm favourite with 'brains' of all ages! Kjartan has also written six support books for the BBC Schools series Megamaths and in recent years he's also written the novels Urgum The Axeman, Urgum and the Seat of Flames and Urgum and the Googoobah which was shortlisted for the first Roald Dahl Funny prize in 2008. Now his internationally renowned Murderous Maths book series has inspired Kjartan to tour a show full of mathematical tricks and oddities.
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Authors Live is produced in association with the Scottish Book Trust, Creative Scotland and Glow. The Scottish Book Trust is the leading agency for the promotion of literature, reading and writing in Scotland and their Authors Live programme is funded by the National Lottery through the Creative Scotland's Inspiring Communities Fund. The Authors Live webcasts are also available through Glow - the world's first national intranet for education allowing joined-up working the length and breadth of Scotland.
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