BBC Radio

For those who wanted details, here is some more stuff about the thing I'm doing on Sat. It's a BBC radio thing. Don't get excited, it's not a Clare thing. I (and Felix) will be just one minion amongst a couple of hundred, and it's highly unlikely that anything directly attributable to me or my son will be recognisable in the final product. Plus I've been a bit ill again, so may not make it.

"BBC RaW and the Philharmonic Orchestra are joining forces for the day to create a new RaW Christmas story with adults and to narrate and record (with sound effects) the existing RaW Max and Lara titles - Who Ate all the Pies, Shooting Stars, The Circus Finds a new Star and The Circus Makes a Difference.

In the morning the adults will join a storywriting workshop with our RaW facilitator, and together will create a new Max and Lara Christmas story - a story based on Christmas Eve.

While they're doing that the kids will be in the Philharmonic Studio, learning how to do the sound effects with percussion instruments, using their voice etc, to the existing Max and Lara stories with staff from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the afternoon... all will be reunited, and BBC presenters and a SPECIAL GUEST will narrate the stories, with help from the audience!

The stories will be recorded, and will be broadcast on Christmas Eve on BBC Radio Manchester.

If budget permits, we'll be putting the stories onto CD to distribute to people who attend the day.

They will also be placed on the BBC website, and potentially made available to ALL BBC Local Radio stations to broadcast over Christmas (40 stations)"

There's also a chance I'll be doing some Xmas storytelling in Heaton Park on Sunday afternoon, but will depend on health (nothing to worry about, just a bug).


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