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Dr Rangan Chatterjee sits in

Dr Rangan Chatterjee sits in and talks to the best-selling children's author Julia Donaldson about her new book, The Christmas Pine.

Dr Rangan Chatterjee sits in and meets an illustrator and a best-selling author trying to help us all make sense of the world.

James Norbury, a Samaritan volunteer, self-published a collection of drawings featuring a panda and a dragon, and proverbs inspired by Buddhist spirituality. Now picked up by one of our biggest publishers, James tells Rangan how his volunteering inspired his drawing, the challenges he's faced in his own life and what he wants readers to takes from Big Panda and Tiny Dragon.

He could pick up some tips from one of our biggest-selling authors; former Children's Laureate, actor, singer-songwriter and all-round children's hero, Julia Donaldson. She tells Rangan about her new book 'The Christmas Pine' which tells the story of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree through poetry. Plus how she writes those now familiar rhymes, what Christmas Day animated adaptation we can look forward to this Christmas, and where the next great story might come from.

2 hours, 55 minutes

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Sun 21 Nov 2021 06:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Crowded House

    Weather With You

    • Crowded House - Recurring Dream.
    • Capitol.

  • ABBA

    Just A Notion

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

  • Laura Branigan

    Self Control

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lincoln Brewster

    Amazing God

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Live Your Life Be Free

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Duran Duran & Tove Lo

    Give It All Up

    • FUTURE PAST.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Communication

    • Spandau Ballet - Singles Collection.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Sam Fender

    Spit Of You

    • Seventeen Going Under.
    • Polydor.

  • for KING & COUNTRY & Dolly Parton

    God Only Knows

    • Burn The Ships (Remixes & Collaborations).
    • Curb.

  • Tom Petty

    Free Fallin'

    • Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
    • MCA.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Adele

    Easy On Me

    • 30.
    • Columbia.

  • Maria Wilman

    Plan B

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • The Corrs

    Old Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Niall Horan & Anne-Marie

    Everywhere (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Children In Need)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Tears for Fears

    The Tipping Point

    • The Tipping Point.
    • Concord Records.

  • Nena

    99 Red Balloons

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay & BTS

    My Universe

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone.

  • Roxy Music

    More Than This

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • U2

    Your Song Saved My Life

    • Sing 2 O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Diana Ross

    I Still Believe

    • Thank You.
    • Decca.

  • Jane and Timothy from Salad Days

    We Said We Wouldn't Look Back

  • The Beatles

    Ticket to ride

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 009.

  • Craig David & MNEK

    Who You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Chaka Khan

    Ain't Nobody

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    We're On Our Way Now

    • Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Eurythmics

    Love Is A Stranger

    • Eurythmics - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Nov 2021 06:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2