Michael morpurgo biography bbc4
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Michael Morpurgo
British children's writer (born 1943)
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge MorpurgoOBE FRSL FKC DL (néBridge; 5 October 1943)[1] is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling",[2] for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005,[3] and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.[4]
Early life
[edit]Morpurgo was born in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (daughter of the writer and poet Émile Cammaerts).[5] Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same repertory company in 1938.[6] His father came from a working-class family, while his mother's family included actors, an opera singer, writers, and poets.[6] They were married in 1941 while Van Bridge, having been called up in 1939 and by then stationed i
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BBC promises 'strongest commitment to the arts in a generation'
BBC director general Tony Hall, formerly chief executive of the Royal Opera House, has pledged to put the arts back at the heart of the corporation's output.
In a speech to mark the launch of BBC Arts at Broadcasting House this morning, Hall said he was announcing the "biggest push we've made in the arts for a generation".
New initiatives will include the airing of productions from Shakespeare's Globe, Glyndebourne and the Edinburgh Festivals, while the National Theatre's Nicholas Hytner and Royal Court's Vicky Featherstone have been appointed to 'key consultation roles'.
Hytner, who steps down as NT artistic director in April 2015, has been appointed a non-executive director, while Featherstone will join a group of "creative leaders" to act as "a sounding board" across the BBC.
Productions slated for broadcast include the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse's recent inaugural staging of The Duchess of Malfi starring Gemma Arterton, which will be shown on BBC4 in May.
"The arts are for everyone, and from now on BBC Arts will be at the very heart of what we do," Hall said today. "We're the biggest arts broadcaster anywhere in the worl
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Michael Morpurgo
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