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In the run-up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, Morpurgo expressed his support for the European Union in an interview with the BBC, [94] and reinforced this with a ten-minute BBC Radio 4 A Point of View interview on 5 August 2018.
A radio dramatisation of Private Peaceful, adapted by Simon Reade and directed and produced by Susan Roberts, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. It was recorded in Iddesleigh in Devon, where the story is set. It starred Paul Chequer as Tommo, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Sergeant Hanley, and Michael Morpurgo as the vicar.
Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell , Humphrey Carpenter , Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris . A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life".
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee milestone will be marked with official commemorations in June.
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Goetz medal, which Morpurgo refers to, commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania [2]. Morpurgo said the sinking of the Lusitania was what inspired him to write this book. In one instance, he explains that his wife told him a story of when she was around seven-years-old, she had gotten chickenpox, and her family quarantined her in a separate room to avoid infecting other members of the family.
Morpurgo says the "extraordinary communication" that took place between astronaut Leroy Chiao, the commander of Expedition 10, and Whitworth and Crozier, "fired up his imagination". [2] [3] Morpurgo gives thanks to Whitworth and Crozier in the title page of the book for "informing and inspiring this story". [4]
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.