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Radio 4,5 mins

Michael Bond: I wrote Paddington to please myself

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In his only broadcast interview since the release of the film Paddington, author Michael Bond reveals to John Humphrys that the famous bear started life as a doodle."I didn't intend to write a book at all... I wrote it to please myself." (Photograph by Felicity McCabe.)

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