Tracks of My Years

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Tracks Of My Years

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Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and and their favourite records.

Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and career and their favourite records.

Tracks Of My Years: Dame Jacqueline Wilson picks her Tracks of My Years

Dame Jacqueline Wilson picks her Tracks of My Years

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Author Dame Jacqueline Wilson chooses her Tracks of My Years.

In this week's omnibus edition of Tracks of My Years, Ken Bruce welcomes author and former Children's Laureate Dame Jacqueline Wilson

Author and former Children's Laureate Dame Jacqueline Wilson chooses her Tracks of My Years all this week.

Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. She has created such adored characters as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather, and in the UK alone her books sales stand at over 40 million.

Jacqueline started her art from an early age, and had her first short story published when she was 17. She was working as a journalist for D.C. Thomson when she helped found Jackie magazine, and more than 50 years after she started working there, D.C. Thomson now publish The Official Jacqueline Wilson Mag.

Many of Jacqueline’s books have been adapted for TV, including, perhaps most famously, Tracy Beaker. 'The Story of Tracy Beaker' became CBBC’s highest rating drama and enjoyed multiple spin-offs, including 'My Mum Tracy Beaker' in 2021.

Jacqueline’s books have also been adapted for the stage, including 'The Lottie Project', 'Double Act', 'Bad Girls', 'Midnight', 'Secrets', 'The Suitcase Kid' and the musical 'Tracy Beaker Gets Real'. Most recently, an Olivier Award-nominated adaptation of 'Hetty Feather' toured the UK, including a West End production at the Duke of York’s theatre.

In 2002, Jacqueline was awarded an OBE for services to literacy and was made a Dame in 2008. In 2004 it was announced that Jacqueline was the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK; her books have been borrowed more than 25 million times since 1995.

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