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Philip 'Beardy' Ardagh is the award-winning author of the Eddie Dickens adventures, currently available in over 30 languages. He wrote BBC Radio's first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children's book and is a reviewer of children's books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown.
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What gave you the idea for the Eddie Dickens
Trilogy?
I simply wanted to set an adventure in the days of Charles Dickens and
beyond. The characters developed from there.
Do you know anyone like the Dickenses?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: You should meet my family!
What made you choose to be a writer?
I went to 'proper school' when I was two-and-a-half years old. No play group
for me. My big brother was at school so I wanted to go . . . and I always loved
writing. My dad used to be given lots of business diaries come Christmas and I'd
fill them with squiggles and pretend writing and -- hey presto -- I had a book
with a cover and everything. Then I began to get (very) short stories printed in
school magazines and I'd sit in my dad's study and do pretend typing on his
gun-metal gray portable typewriter until I jammed the keys so badly, one time,
that I was banned from that activity! So, from very early on, I discovered that
I liked the thinking process, the sharing of the ideas process and the physical
act of writing itself; whether with pen or by keyboard.
Where do you get your ideas from?
I wish I had a simple answer, such as 'www.fresh-ideas-for-...
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