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Books and Authors

Open Book: Children's Literature and Oxford

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A special edition from Oxford, explores why the city is often called the home of children's literature, with Philip Pullman, Katherine Rundell and publisher David Fickling.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

0:07.9

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

0:12.0

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

0:18.0

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

0:21.3

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

0:25.0

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the irony.

0:28.5

Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:32.5

This is a download from the BBC. To find out more, visit BBC.com.ukau.U.K. slash radio four.

0:40.5

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the program coming this week from the Hollywood

0:44.5

of children's literature, the University City of Oxford.

0:48.3

We love stories. Over the next half hour, as children's book week gets underway, we celebrate

0:57.6

with a host of young readers, making the most of the recently souped up story museum. The introduction

1:03.4

of a major new interactive exhibition hopes to engage a digitally distracted generation in good

1:09.4

old-fashioned storytelling.

1:13.6

My favourite room is the Narnia Room because it brings it the story to life kind of

1:18.0

because it's like you're actually the people walking into Narnia and seeing everything.

1:26.2

The Anansi Room inspired me to read different books with different cultures in

1:31.7

because it proves that not just one culture is the best.

1:36.6

The Wind in the Willows one gave me an idea of what the book's going to be about

1:40.9

and it looks really fun to read.

1:43.2

And from C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkien and Lewis Carroll to a living author and one of my guests

1:48.4

today, Philip Pullman, will be asking why the city of dreaming spires has given birth to so many

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