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Michael Morpurgo - Author

Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse which is now a hugely popular stage play and is about to become a Hollywood movie talks to Stephen Sackur about his ambition to spark children's imaginations.

Michael Morpurgo has written more than 100 books – one of them War Horse, set amid the horrors of World War I, is now a hugely popular stage play and is about to become a Hollywood movie.

His ambition is to spark children’s imaginations, but is there any subject that is off limits?

He talks to Stephen Sackur.

23 minutes

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Sat 9 Apr 201111:05GMT
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