Podcast appearances and mentions of Francesca Simon

My guest in this week's Book Club is Francesca Simon. Best known for her Horrid Henry series of children's books, Francesca has just published her first novel for grownups, a haunting reworking of a Welsh folk tale called Salka: Lady of the Lake. She tells me how she came to shift direction, what myths offer in terms of storytelling possibility – and why she never tired of her best-known creation.

My guest in this week's Book Club is Francesca Simon. Best known for her Horrid Henry series of children's books, Francesca has just published her first novel for grownups, a haunting reworking of a Welsh folk tale called Salka: Lady of the Lake. She tells me how she came to shift direction, what myths offer in terms of storytelling possibility – and why she never tired of her best-known creation.

Discussing their lives and recent published books, judges on the 500 words competition with the BBC and Chris Evans. Francesca Simon known for Horrid Henry and Charlie Higson known for taking up the mantle of James Bond.Todays Sponsors:AG1: drinkAG1.com/HOWTOWOWCarFest: https://carfest.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Berkeley talks to children's author Francesca Simon. Matthew Rodger describes the best way of being a witness. Larry Gentis is Moses in the wilderness. Philip Noble advises us not to jump to conclusions. MUSIC 1. Lord for the Years 2. Great is your faithfulness - Alastair Macdonald 3. God so loved the world - Coventry Chorale 4. I don't know about tomorrow - Gaithers Homecoming Friends

Anyone who's spent any time with children in the last thirty years will know Horrid Henry and his brother, Perfect Peter. They're the creations of Francesca Simon, and they've appeared in 25 books, been translated into 31 languages and sold 25 million copies. They seem to embody archetypes: the chaotic, naughty brother who's always in trouble, and the neat well-behaved sibling who's always anxious to please the parents. In Private Passions, Francesca Simon tells Michael Berkeley that her own emotional memories of childhood are extraordinarily vivid. She was brought up living on the beach in Malibu, where her father Mayo Simon was a screenwriter, but then moved around to Paris and New York and London. It all sounds glamorous, but actually, she says, it was hard. They moved so often that she always felt like an outsider. Francesca chooses music that reflects the very diverse influences of her early life: Yiddish and Breton folk songs, and Jascha Haifetz playing the Bach Double Violin Concerto. She also chooses music by the young British composer Gavin Higgins, for whom she's written a libretto for his new work The Faerie Bride, and by E. J. Moeran, a composer she thinks should be much better known. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke

Join Lucas and Miranda for their first panel interview, where they talk about Norse Mythology in Fantasy Fiction.They are joined by: Professor Carolyne Larrington, a tutorial fellow in medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford. She is author of The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes.Joanne Harris, author of four Norse fantasy titles - Runemarks, Runelight, The Testament of Loki and The Gospel of Loki - all set within the same fictional universe.Francesca Simon, author of three norse fantasy titles - The Sleeping Army and The Lost Gods, and The Monstrous Child. She is currently writing a new children's book series called Two Terrible Vikings.Becky Hill,  ex-librarian, book blogger, a dedicated pilgrim of The JORVIK Viking Festival, and life-long bookworm. She has a particular obsession with anything Viking such as culture, history, art, literature, comics and games and of course books.For more information, or if you have an idea for a future episode, you can email us at:podcast@yorkat.co.ukTell us what you think!This episode is sponsored by Nidhoggr Mead! 

希望大家过了一个欢乐放松的春节，QED全体员工给大家拜年啦！ 这次，还是一期领读汇试听。领读汇是QED教育最受欢迎的课程之一，是一个陪伴式的引领孩子进入自主阅读的读书课程，因为很多家长咨询我们，想知道这个课是怎么上的，跟市场一般的读书，听书节目有什么不同，我们这次播客就是给大家听一下课程的部分录音，给大家一些更直观的感受。我们的领读汇一般是每天陪伴孩子一个小时，用9-10天的时间，读完一本英国学生必读的经典文学作品，开启自主阅读第一步，并逐渐养成深度阅读习惯。 这期试听，我们将一起听一下去年圣诞节期间，领读汇的初阶班读的、最受欢迎的桥梁书系列 《淘气包亨利》的圣诞特辑。首先我先给大家介绍一下淘气包亨利Horrid Henry这套书哈。 这是一套“顽童型”的儿童小说，跟美国的《小屁孩日记》、《内裤超人》一样，主人公是一个淘气、爱闯的“坏小孩”：书中的每个小故事，都用一种夸张又搞笑的笔调塑造着一个满脑袋奇思妙想的小淘气包，他的淘气程度简直颠覆你的想象，处处和家长、老师、校长作对，欺负弟弟和同学们。而故事的结尾，往往情节陡然逆转，有一个让人啼笑皆非的结局。 正是这样的故事，让淘气的Henry成为和孩子有许多共同语言的小伙伴，他满脑袋奇思妙想，思维发散，计智百出，让人哭笑不得，而又充满乐趣。所以，无论是从语言还是从心理上，孩子都会很容易理解淘气包亨利的故事，也更容易找到共鸣。 Horrid Henry 是一套在英美畅销20多年的童书经典，引进国内时很多朋友把它跟《哈利·波特》做比较。这两套在童书届的地位和影响力，确实有很多相似之处。这套书的作者呢就是童书届大名鼎鼎的 Francesca Simon （弗朗西丝卡•西蒙）。她出生于美国，现定居伦敦，她是美国历史上唯一一位获得英国图书大奖的作家，也是英国最畅销的童书作家之一。西蒙在2008年获得了英国银河图书奖的最佳童书奖， 银河图书奖一般不会颁给外籍人，她是至今唯一一位获得英国银河图书奖的美国作家。这个奖大家都熟悉的英国人罗琳阿姨拿过，2009年奥巴马曾入围过候选名单，可惜他落选了，从这里一点也可以看得出来这个奖项的含金量之高。西蒙1955年生于美国加利福尼亚，成年后在耶鲁大学和牛津大学学习中世纪的历史和文学，后来定居在伦敦，直到1989年她的儿子出生，她走上了全职创作儿童小说的道路。 1994年，Horrid Henry 第一本出版，很快就创造了单册2000万的销售量，荣登当年的畅销排行榜首位。整整三年之后，才被《哈利•波特》打败。从1997年到2007年，可谓是 Horrid Henry 和 Harry Potter 系列竞争zui激烈的10年，各大畅销榜上常常是《哈利波特》第一，它第二。“淘气包亨利”系列在全球24个国家出版，被翻译成26种语言，同期的系列动画片亦风靡英国。 因为年底的领读汇是以圣诞为主题的，因此我们选的是淘气包亨利的圣诞版之一，淘气包亨利的圣诞，属于初级章节书，是让孩子从图画到文字过渡，阅读量开始提升的书，这本书的 AR 3.6，适合5岁以上孩子阅读。 这本书的领读老师是Daniel, Daniel毕业于剑桥大学英国文学专业，是一等学位和学术 奖学获得者。在他的领读过程中，他会讲解重点生词和高频词、固定习语、分析基础语法、培养阅读策略和引导学生表达和推测。接下来，请听领读汇Horrid Henry's Chrismas for early reader的上课节选，这节课上，Daniel老师让孩子尝试了份角色朗读，然后挑出难词生词来讲解，还特别给孩子们讲解了什么是动词和形容词。 大家都知道，不管英语是母语还是第二语言，阅读和写作都是英语学习中非常重要的两个环节，而这两个环节又互相促进。 孩子们在领读汇收获丰富，家长们对领读汇热爱有加，有的孩子读完一本又接着读下一本，有家里姐姐读了叫妹妹也一起读，还有热心的妈妈为让孩子在假期里可以见到好朋友，约上三五知己自建阅读小组......越来越多的孩子，习惯了在每天的一个固定时段，安静的坐下来，在老师的正宗英音引领下，诵读名著，体会经典。我们的领读汇会长期开班，按照不同年龄层适合的阅读难度设计班级，报名后您的孩子可以有一个英语水平测试，然后按照不同的水平分班，如果您和好朋友们的孩子愿意一起上领读汇，我们也可以为你们定制专属的书目。 想咨询书目的可以搜索公众号“QED教育” 好，我们这期Q Talk就到这里，希望大家的虎年在我们的陪伴下，孩子的英语水平也会如虎添翼！感谢收听，下次再见 ​​ ​ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/q-talk23/message

The "Horrid Henry" creator gives us an out-take from her successful opera, unpublished articles and some other children's book ideas that despite her stellar international reputation still didn't get picked up. Clips performed by: Beth Chalmers, Emma Clarke, Leah Marks, David Holt, Rachel Atkins and Keith Wickham. Francesca Simon is universally known for the staggeringly popular Horrid Henry series. These books and CDs have sold over 22 million copies and are published in 29 countries. Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman won the Children's Book of the the Year award in 2008 at the British Book Awards. She is also the author of Costa-shortlisted The Monstrous Child for older readers, and Hack and Whack, her first picture book. To date she has published over 50 books for children of all ages including picture books, early readers and a young adult trilogy based on norse mythology. Collaborating with composer Gavin Higgins, Francesca recently wrote the libretto for The Monstrous Child turning it into an opera which received rave reviews when it was staged at The Royal Opera House, London in 2019. Episode show notes:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/francesca-simon Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/

Today's guests are Emilie and her sons Jayden and Jamie. Jamie who is five reviews Spelling Shed. In edtech news we find out about a new writing competition by app makers Fonetti which closes on Friday 31st July. The competition is being judged by presenter and author Clare Balding, Horrid Henry series author Francesca Simon and authors of the Kid Normal series and presenters Greg James and Chris Smith. The link to the competition is below. https://www.fonetti.com/competition #edtech #educationtechnology #spelling

A new study has revealed more and more parents are turning to technology to read bedtime stories to their children. We spoke to Francesca Simon, the author of best-selling book series Horrid Henry, about the importance of reading and how we can make more time to read with our children.

Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by singer Will Young, actress Zawe Ashton, children's author Francesca Simon and poet Murray Lachlan Young for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lee Fields and The Expressions and Leyla McCalla. Producer: Tim Bano

On this week's episode of Campus Culture, Katelyn and Holly welcome Francesca Simon (the Administrator of Wellness Services at MRU) on the show to finish off our MRU Wellness mini series. What does Francesca's job as administrator for Wellness entail? What did she study to get into her field? What is optimal therapy? What sort of services does optimal therapy provide? She also goes into detail about Healthy Campus, and more stuff about wellness services as a whole. There are also our regular stationary segments Campus Action and a particularly great edition of Adulting 101, with a helpful tip from Holly on if you are stressed out about your grades.Hosts: Holly Roberts, Katelyn White Audio Tech: Leigh Beacom Executive Producer: Ben Goodman

On this week's episode of Campus Culture, Katelyn and Holly welcome Francesca Simon (the Administrator of Wellness Services at MRU) on the show to finish off our MRU Wellness mini series. What does Francesca's job as administrator for Wellness entail? What did she study to get into her field? What is optimal therapy? What sort of services does optimal therapy provide? She also goes into detail about Healthy Campus, and more stuff about wellness services as a whole. There are also our regular stationary segments Campus Action and a particularly great edition of Adulting 101, with a helpful tip from Holly on if you are stressed out about your grades.Hosts: Holly Roberts, Katelyn White Audio Tech: Leigh Beacom Executive Producer: Ben Goodman

We hear about The Monstrous Child and Hel, the heroine of Gavin Higgins and Francesca Simon’s new opera. Pianists Peter Donohoe and Noriko Ogawa discuss and play mountains of the piano duo repertoire: Stravinsky, Rachmaninov & Debussy. Tom speaks to musicians who spend their evenings performing in concert halls, and their days walking in the mountains (conductor Garry Walker) stretching in hot yoga studios (violinist Elena Urioste), or running ultra-marathons (Leon Bosch) to discover the connection between music and sporting disciplines. Tom visits English composer Anthony Payne at home in London hearing about the catalyst that sparked his life in music, Elgar, and why we need more new music in our lives.

The directorial debut of Oscar -winning actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor,is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Airing on Netflix, adapted from a bestselling novel of the same name Ejiofor also stars as the father. This true story follows the young boy William as he races to save his village from a devastating famine, with a wind turbine he was inspired to build after reading a library book.Come From Away is the hit Broadway musical which tells the remarkable story of the thousands of airline passengers diverted to a tiny Canadian town following 9/11 and stranded there for several days. Sam Marlowe reviews the UK premiere.Fashion historian Amber Butchart pays tribute to iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Known as “the king” by fashion insiders, Lagerfeld was the Creative Director of the fashion house Chanel for more than thirty years where his artistic flair combined with his business acumen led to sales reaching £7.7 billion in 2017. Two short story competitions - the National Short Story Award and 500 Words - are currently open for submissions. We get an insight from the judges on how to write a great short story. Cynan Jones judge and former winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and Francesca Simon; author of the Horrid Henry books tell Kirsty what Radio 2's short story-writing competition for children and the NSSA are looking for.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Oliver JonesMain image: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Maxwell Simba Photo credit: Ilze Kitshoff, Netflix

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This week we start off with a discussion about Imposter Syndrome. Credit to Neil Gaiman who recently blogged about it and prompted the discussion. Katy, Kellie, and Mandy realized they all suffer from it to varying degrees. Then we talk about Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon, Divinity Original Sin II Game Master Mode (so great),… Continue reading Wekk – Ep 70 – Growing up 70’s CHiPs

Film and theatre director Stephen Daldry discusses his latest project with Clemency Burton Hill. The Crown charts Queen Elizabeth II's reign starting with her marriage to Philip Mountbatten in the post-war period in 1947. The Netflix drama series is Daldry's first foray into TV, written by Peter Morgan, which is reportedly the UK's most expensive ever.Nocturnal Animals is the latest film from fashion designer turned director Tom Ford. The psychological thriller stars Amy Adams as a lonely art gallery owner & Jake Gyllenhaal as her ex-husband. Jason Solomons reviews. As part of the BBC's celebration of books, Love to Read, the creator of Horrid Henry, Francesca Simon talks about the classic book she's read for Front Row: Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 story about guilt and sin, The Scarlet Letter. Linda Grant talks about her new novel The Dark Circle, which set in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the early 1950s. Producer: Julian May.

David Walliams and Horrid Henry creator Francesca Simon discuss the role of parents in the work of Roald Dahl. Jack and Harry Williams, the writers behind TV drama The Missing, discuss their new series One of Us, where an inexplicable murder leads to the revelation of secrets within two families. He painted, he sculpted, he made ceramics and prints but did you know that Pablo Picasso also wrote plays? As rarely performed Desire Caught By the Tail is staged in London, its director Cradeux Alexander and critic Richard Cork discuss what we learn about the artist through his theatrical work.After months of speculation about his new album, singer Frank Ocean released an unexpected 'visual album' Endless today. Newsbeat's Jimmy Blake talks about the rise of visual albums in today's music industry.

Francesca Simon and Lloyd Langford talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Rob's guest this week is the author, Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon reads one of her Horrid Henry stories, Horrid Henry's Nightmare. This is part two of a series of five stories shared on Guardian children's books in connection with the Imagine children's festival at London's Southbank Centre

Children’s author Francesca Simon chooses artist, writer and film-maker Jean Cocteau. With Matthew Parris. From December 2012.

With John Wilson. Johnny Depp's latest cinematic tribute to Hunter S Thompson, The Rum Diary, is based on the late journalist's novel of the same name. The semi-autobiographical story follows the boozy and increasingly unhinged exploits of a young American reporter in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s. Iain Sinclair reviews. Musician, songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers first found fame with his band Chic, before working with Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna and many more. He reflects on his unconventional childhood and the unexpected starting points for some of his most popular songs. Viking gods, murderous giants, monsters and magical transformations provide the raw material for the new novels by Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon and by Joanne Harris, the writer of the bestselling Chocolat. They discuss why Norse mythology still inspires 21st century writers. Producer LISA DAVIS Presenter JOHN WILSON.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Francesca Simon. Educated at Yale and Oxford she initially thought she'd pursue an academic life - but within weeks of her son's birth, found that ideas for children's stories started flowing. She's now written twenty books featuring her creation Horrid Henry and they sell in their millions. She sees Horrid Henry as sitting within the long tradition of anarchic characters in children's literature. She says: "Everyone responds to Henry because I think everyone feels - however conventional they seem on the outside - that they are rebellious and unconventional, and Henry really taps into that." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Francesca Simon. Educated at Yale and Oxford she initially thought she'd pursue an academic life - but within weeks of her son's birth, found that ideas for children's stories started flowing. She's now written twenty books featuring her creation Horrid Henry and they sell in their millions. She sees Horrid Henry as sitting within the long tradition of anarchic characters in children's literature. She says: "Everyone responds to Henry because I think everyone feels - however conventional they seem on the outside - that they are rebellious and unconventional, and Henry really taps into that." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

You may not want Horrid Henry as your son or brother but how much fun would it be to have him in class? Francesca Simon describes his latest adventures and misadventures with all his friends and accomplices, from hapless Weepy William and Perfect Peter

You may not want Horrid Henry as your son or brother but how much fun would it be to have him in class? In this event, recorded live at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, his creator Francesca Simon described Henry's latest adventures and misadventures with all his friends and accomplices, from hapless Weepy William and Perfect Peter to Inky Ian and – of course! – Henry himself.