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The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show: 500 Words 2019 launch!

500 Words 2019 launch!

BBC Radio 2 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, 500 Words 2019 launch!

Zoe launches 500 Words 2019, BBC Radio 2's story-writing competition for children aged 5-13.

Zoe launches 500 Words 2019, BBC Radio 2’s story-writing competition for children aged 5-13, and reveals that Windsor Castle will be the spectacular location for this year's 500 Words Final.

Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell Boyce host a special Breakfast Club for the children of Foulds School, and share their top tips for how to create spectacular short-stories. Plus Windsor Castle’s Learning Curator Richard Williams takes Zoe behind the scenes of the magical final venue in Backstage Ball.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, England number eight Mark Wilson previews the Six Nations, a daily Pause For Thought provided by Senior Rabbi Julia Neuberger and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

With over 800,000 entries since it first launched in 2011, 500 Words is the world’s most successful story-writing competition for children and is an open invitation to the wide world of imagination. 135,000 children across the UK sent in their stories in 2018.

The winners will have their story read live on air by the world’s biggest celebrities to the Breakfast Show’s millions of listeners. Previous names have included Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, Tom Hiddleston, Sir Kenneth Branagh and Benedict Cumberbatch. Not only will finalists rub shoulders with the most popular entertainers, they'll also be serenaded by fantastic pop-stars performing at the final. 

For further inspiration, helpful hints and tips, and to enter, visit www.bbc.co.uk/500words. And teachers and librarians can also sign up on the site to help judge the thousands of entries.

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