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Emma Rice—On Directing

2/5 Kneehigh Theatre's Emma Rice explores the director's role as a storyteller.

1/5 Roger Michell on emotions that go with starting a film, as he makes Hyde Park on Hudson.

5/5 Michael Rosen considers the changing role of the family in children's literature.

3/5 Trish Cooke explores the importance of children's books reflecting different cultures.

2/5 Anne Fine gives a feminist view of the nostalgia for our favourite childhood books.

1/5 Anthony Horowitz explores family dysfunction through Roald Dahl's Matilda.

5/5 Andrew Martin describes how in order to escape noise, he goes on a retreat in Essex.

4/5 Andrew Martin looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.

3/5 Andrew Martin on his boyhood love of train travel and noises on public transport today.

2/5 Andrew Martin laments 'piped music' and what he considers to be its worsening quality.