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Squashing Words
View More From Authors Live: Steve Cole
Steve shows us how to throw imagination at words.
  1. Squashing Words
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    Squashing Words
    View More From Authors Live: Steve Cole
  2. Books I’ve Written
    02:35
    Books I’ve Written
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  3. Making a Leopard Monster
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    Making a Leopard Monster
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  4. Superpowers
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    Superpowers
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  5. Steve’s Monsters
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    Steve’s Monsters
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  6. Making a Monster
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    Making a Monster
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  7. Alien Stink Song
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    Alien Stink Song
    View More From Authors Live: Steve Cole
  8. What to do (and not do) at the Edinburgh Fringe
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    What to do (and not do) at the Edinburgh Fringe
  9. Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
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    Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
  10. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
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    Erica Jong on sex and ageing
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    'Just watch the hands': The genius of Boulez's conducting
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    Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years
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