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Raymond Briggs

24/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Profile, Raymond Briggs

Marks Coles profiles the author and illustrator Raymond Briggs.

Mark Coles looks at the life and career of one of the world's best-loved children's illustrators: Raymond Briggs, who has become a part of Christmas.

On Profile this week we explore the life and career of one of the world's best loved children's illustrators. Over the last half century - much to his horror - Raymond Briggs has become a part of Christmas. Two books about a grumpy Father Christmas have become bestsellers. The film adaptation of his 1978 picture book 'The Snowman' has been shown on TV every Christmas for the past three decades. And now, this Christmas, the BBC is screening 'Ethel And Ernest' - a new film of Briggs' 1998 book about his parents. Mark Coles talks to Raymond Briggs' family and friends to find out what his books are really about.

Producer: Smita Patel
Researcher Sarah Shebbeare 
Editor: Richard Knight.

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