RADIO PROGRAMMES (as writer and/or presenter and/or main guest of one or more programmes) 1970-2003
BBC Radio 4:
Treasure Islands (1989-1997) Word of Mouth (1998-) Let the Rumpus Begin (5x 15 mins on ground-breaking children's books) Shaking Up The Library (5x 15 mins programmes on children's books that were firsts) When Knights Were Bold (5x 1 min programmes on history in children's literature) Parsing With Passion (2x 30 mins on history of grammar in schools) Put Asunder (3x 15 mins on divorce) On Being Wrong (3x 15 mins) On Saying Goodbye (3x 15 mins on death and bereavement Dr Seuss: Who Put The Cat In The Hat? A Cachery of Ogden Nashery (unpublished poems from Nash's papers) Pirates of Cologne - the Edelweisspiraten (German youth who resisted the Nazis) Testing Times (3x 15 mins on the testing culture) The Palace for the People (Crystal Palace) The Magic Lantern (2x 30 mins on children's films Losing the Children (30 mins on the origins of the 'Pied Piper' story) On Being Inferior (3 x 15 mins with Dorothy Rowe) Dons and Dragons (30 min documentary on how Oxford produced the great fantasy writers: Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman) Home Truths Occasional presenter Pick of the Week Occasional presenter My Third Life (exploration of my condition of being hypothyroid) (30 mins)
Accidental Entertainers – the Brothers Grimm (30 mins)
BBC Radio 3: An Ugly Duckling? - Hans Christian Andersen.
The Brothers Grimm
Maurice Sendak
Joan Littlewood – a profile (30 mins) In Search of Hans Christian Andersen (30 mins) Lingua Franca for ‘The Essay’ (12x15mins on history of European languages)
BBC World Service : Poems by Post later becoming specialised editions of 'The Word' (1989-)
Art of the Spanish Civil War
Meridian Books Presenter 1992-1996
Life and work of Bertolt Brecht
Meridian Masterclass - Le Corbusier
TELEVISION (as writer and/or presenter of one or more programmes) 1970-2002
Schools Television:
Channel 4:
Readabout
Rosen's Poetry Attic
Just Write
Eureka: The Secret Life of Schools
Teachers TV:
Michael Rosen on Literacy (45 mins)
Reading Aloud (15 x 15mins on enjoying reading)
Children's TV :
Channel 4: Everybody Here (30 programmes) Black and White and Read All Over (6 programmes),
Mainstream TV
BBC 4 and BBC 2:
Writer presenter on Heath Robinson: Suburban Subversive (profile) - November and December 2003
BBC 2: Critic for Newsnight Review November 2003, January 2004
Channel 5: Michael Rosen’s Treasury of Children’s Literature
(one hour documentary on the Seven Stories Museum of Children’s Literature in Newcastle)
"My latest book is a sequel to We're Going on a Bear Hunt but this time the Bear goes to the city hoping to have a good time. I read the words on the CD that goes with the book."
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