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Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children's writers Onjali Q Ra煤f and Chris Riddell about ways in which they identify with Owl.

To celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh鈥檚 100th anniversary, Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce is asking some the UK's most celebrated children鈥檚 writers who they most identify with in A A Milne鈥檚 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 Onjali Q. Ra煤f best known for The Boy at the Back of the Class, and political cartoonist, illustrator and writer of many children鈥檚 book Chris Riddell, about ways in which they identify with Owl.

Producer: Rosie Boulton
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Tue 23 Dec 2025 13:45

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