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The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: Hello Francesca Simon and Welcome Back Charlie Higson!

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Hello Francesca Simon and Welcome Back Charlie Higson!

23/01/2014

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Hello Francesca Simon and Welcome Back Charlie Higson!

With the final two authors on our fab 500 WORDS panel: Charlie Higson and Francesca Simon!

Chris chats to the two remaining bestselling authors on our judging panel: Charlie Higson, who is back for a third year and our brand new family member, Francesca Simon!

It's day four of 500 WORDS launch week (anyone written their story yet?!) and Chris chats to the two remaining best-selling authors on our judging panel: Charlie Higson, who's back for a third year, and our brand new family member, Francesca Simon!

Charlie is probably best known as one of the creators of The Fast Show, but his hugely popular Young Bond books have sold over a million copies, in the UK alone, and been translated into over 24 languages! In 2013, Charlie published The Fallen, the fifth book in a zombie series which terrifies teens!

Francesca Simon's most successful creation is the irrepressible Horrid Henry, whose adventures have been published in 27 languages and sold in their millions! Francesca is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Horrid Henry at the 2014 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts.

Last year 500 WORDS attracted more than 90,000 entries. It's open to children aged 13 and under and the rules are simple: Make up a story, and write it down, using no more than 500 words. And every single story submitted will be read by a brilliant, book-loving, army of librarians and teachers from around the UK.

For more information about the competition, and for writing tips, lesson plans and tools to help children get writing, visit www.bbc.co.uk/500words.

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