TWICE UPON A TIME (with Janet Ellis)
TWICE UPON A TIME (with Janet Ellis)
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TWICE UPON A TIME (with Janet Ellis)
Episodes of TWICE UPON A TIME
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In a suitably macabre special episode for the season, Janet returns this week to speak to Jeremy Dyson, author, musician, screenwriter and of course, member of the League of Gentleman.Jeremy introduces his childhood book 'Haunted Britain' by
Recorded live at the Chiswick Festival, Phyllis Logan (Secrets and Lies, Lovejoy, Downton Abbey) joins Janet to discuss her favourite childhood book Alison's Spy Adventure - a rollicking tale of espionage set in Scotland with Alison and her chi
In this show, recorded LIVE at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Janet is delighted to welcome actor, writer and magician Andy Nyman to discuss his choice of spooky of book (so spooky he never could bring himself to read it, but was fascinated by
Former Children's Laureate, creator of the beloved 'Tracy Beaker' and one of the countries 3 most borrowed authors, Dame Jaqueline Wilson joins Janet to discuss P. L. Travers enduring classic 'Mary Poppins' - having loved the book and and yet n
Janet is joined by fellow Blue Peter Alumnus, author and presenter Konnie Huq who brings along her choice, 'Superfudge' by Judy Blume.For pictures from the book please visit our instagram @twiceuponpodA Hat Trick PodcastTwice Upon A Time
Janet is joined by fellow Blue Peter Alumnus, author and presenter Konnie Huq who brings along her choice, 'Superfudge' by Judy Blume.For pictures from the book please visit our instagram @twiceuponpodA Hat Trick PodcastTwice Upon A Time is pre
In conjunction with Primadonna Festival, Andi Osho writer and actress, most recently from the brilliant 'Blue Lights' joins Janet to discuss her book choice 'Willie The Squowse' by Ted Allan. Andi will shortly be a judge at the Primadonna Festi
Lorraine Kelly OBE; presenter, broadcaster and host of her own eponymous and beloved show on ITV since 2010, joins Janet with her choice of 'Claudine at St.Clare's' by Enid Blyton.Warm reflections on growing up, school days and the escapism o
Diane Morgan, actress, writer and known to many as the brilliant Philomena Cunk, chooses The Iron Man by Ted Hughes as her book in this episode. As you'd expect, a hilarious chat this week, partly due to Diane's reaction to re reading the book
It's our pleasure to welcome Nick Mohammed to the pod this week, star of Ted Lasso and creator of the brilliant Mr Swallow. Nick introduces Janet to his favourite childhood book 'Pocket Magic' by Peter Eldin, a veritable cornucopia of tricks an
In this show, recorded LIVE at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Janet is delighted to welcome musician and all round superstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor to discuss her choice of book and find out if parental reading during her childhood was really up t
Quintessential English actress Hayley Mills, star of numerous films including the original Parent Trap, That Darn Cat and the BAFTA winning Whistle Down The Wind joins Janet this week with her choice 'My Friend Flicka' by Mary O'Hara. This book
Best-selling author Anthony Horowitz is known not only for his original works such as the Magpie Murders and the Hawthorne Series but also for managing to inhabit existing characters such as Sherlock Holmes and James Bond in his hugely successf
Celebrated novelist Victoria Hislop joins Janet this week to talk about 'I Am David' by Anne Holm. Victoria describes wonderfully how she remembers the book being to her class by their teacher and also how it inspired her in her own writing.V
Champion Quizzer Paul Sinha joins Janet this week with his choice of - of course - The Guinness Book of Records (1982 edition, year specifically chosen by Paul). Expect facts galore, an examination of 1982 as a whole and how Paul and Janet woul
The brilliant novelist and podcaster Elizabeth Day joins Janet today with her choice of book 'The Ordinary Princess' by M.M.Kaye. Kaye is probably best known for her novel 'The Far Pavilions' which drew from her time growing up in India, whic
Just before we take a brief break to record some more episodes, here is Janet's own choice - The Swish Of The Curtain by Pamela BrownWritten when the author was 13 in 1938 it was finished a couple of years later and followed by several sequel
Janet's guest this week is producer, novelist and children's author Lissa Evans. Her choice is the delightful 'Five Children and It' by E. Nesbit about a group of children who discover a magical being who can grant them wishes. Listen to hear h
Podcast royalty this week as the wonderful Helen Zaltzman; podcaster, broadcaster and writer, joins Janet to talk about Judith Kerr's book 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' based on Judith's own childhood as her jewish family fled Nazi Germany to
Susie Dent, wordsmith extraordinaire, joins Janet this week to talk about her favourite book Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild. Follow us on @twiceuponpod for pictures from the pod and cover pictures of the vintage books chosen. Twice Upo
Emmanuel Dzotsi, originally hailing from Streatham and now co-host of hit US podcasts Reply-All and Serial, joins Janet this week with his choice 'Danny Champion of the World' by Roald Dahl.Join us @twiceuponpod for images of the books chosen
Posy Simmonds chooses The Tale of Mr Tod by Beatrix Potter.Potter, born in 1866, didn’t publish her first book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” until her mid-30s. Having grown up isolated from other children, she had numerous pets and spent holid
Samira Ahmed chooses Ballet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildMore about this book:“If other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?” For the past nearly ninety years young readers have been dreaming of being Pauline, Petrova or P
Food writer and author Rachel Roddy chooses 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' by Judith Kerr, first published in 1968.More about the author:Having eventually arrived in England as refugees from Germany during the Second World War, both Kerr and he
Michael Morpurgo chooses Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMore about this book:It started with a map. In the summer of 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, often chronically unwell, passed the time drawing: “I made the map of an island; it w
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