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Cover to Cover: Series 2

Cover to Cover: Series 2: Julia Donaldson, Steve Cavanagh and Diona Doherty

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26/11/2017

Julia Donaldson, Steve Cavanagh and Diona Doherty

Series 2

BBC Radio Ulster - Cover to Cover, Series 2, Julia Donaldson, Steve Cavanagh and Diona Doherty

Steven talks to children's author Julia Donaldson and crime writer Steve Cavanagh.

Children's author Julia Donaldson talks about The Ugly Five. Plus crime writer Steven Cavanagh on fictional con artist Eddie Flynn, and Diona Doherty's favourite books.

Steven talks to Julia Donaldson, author of some of the best known and loved children's books of our time, about her latest picture book The Ugly Five, and taking The Highway Rat to our screens over Christmas. Local crime writer and father Steve Cavanagh is in the studio talking about his relationship with children's literature and his own fictional creation - con artist and lawyer Eddie Flynn. Plus, actress and comedian Diona Doherty talks about her favourite authors and we hear a run down of the books that made it into the 2017 Cover to Cover hall of fame.

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