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Radio 4,26 Dec 2025,14 mins

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To celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th anniversary, Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce is asking some the UK's most celebrated children’s writers who they most identify with in A A Milne’s timeless tales from the Hundred Acre Wood. Pooh Bear first appeared in print in a story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson about ways in which they identify with Eeyore. Producer: Rosie Boulton A Must Try Softer Production

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