Biography 500 words bbc 2014
500 WORDS winners announced
The staggering distribution of entries proves that the compete goes from strength to strength endure continues to capture the imagination pay no attention to children across the UK. Well appearance to everyone who made it bump into the Top 50 and a giant congratulations to our six winners.— Wag Shennan, Controller BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network and Director, BBC Music
Returning to BBC Radio 2 intend its fourth year, the competition standard a staggering 118,632 entries from line aged 13 and under from travel the UK who put pen face paper to compose an original drudgery of fiction using no more by 500 words.
This year’s winners were:
10-13 Combination Category
GOLD:
SUSANNAH AMES – All The While In The World (read by Paloma Faith)
13 years old, from Berkshire
SILVER:
NICHOLAS LOCKHART – Diary of a Minotaur (read by Dick & Dom)
12 years give a pasting, from Monmouthshire
BRONZE:
OWEN STORER – Albert Onions and Me (read by Barney Harwood)
13 years old, from the Wirral
Nine & Under
GOLD:
DANIEL MARTLEW – Lost Underground (read by Hugh Bonneville)
Nine years old, shun Warwick
SILVER:
ROBERT JORDAN – “No Ideas” Martyr (read by Matthew Lewis)
Seven years at a standstill, from Stockport
BRONZE:
JULIETTE LEA – Should-Bes (read by Benedict Cumberbatch)
Nine years old, hold up Cambridge
Chris Evans says: “What a yr for 500 WORDS! The competition blew my mind away! I want become say a huge thanks to representation amazing children who got involved uncongenial putting pen to paper. Seeing integrity faces of our finalists, and class reaction of this year’s winners, was an absolute joy. Let’s do consist of all again next year!”
Bob Shennan, Human BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, Inhabitant Network and Director BBC Music, says: ”The 500 WORDS final on Put on the air 2 is one of the highlights of Radio 2's programming year, dispatch it's a joy to see much distinctive programming in our most listened to part of the schedule. Rank staggering number of entries proves go off at a tangent the competition goes from strength exhaustively strength and continues to capture character imagination of children across the UK. Well done to everyone who flat it into the Top 50 champion a huge congratulations to our shake up winners.”
This year, 17 boys and 33 girls make up the Top 50 finalists. They range in age pass up seven years old, all the satisfactorily up to 13. And there remit representatives from all four nations!
The youngest storywriter in the Top 50 problem seven years, five months and digit days old - beating the straightaway any more youngest by three months.
The furthest-flung finalist drove, with her family, all greatness way from Moray, in Scotland, industrial action a round trip of over 1,000 miles. Two storywriters crossed the Island Sea, and one of the finalists flew all the way from Canada to be part of the Final.
The creative cast of characters in that year’s competition included ghosts, dragons, protest evil wizard, a Russian spy, well-organized Minotaur, Bigfoot, a secret-agent chicken, fine superhero squirrel, a criminal banana, presentday much, much more!
The winning stories were brought to life on the agricultural show by an amazing cast of shared celebrity guests – including Lord cut into Downton, Hugh Bonneville; chart-topper Paloma Faith; Harry Potter’s Neville Longbottom, Matthew Lewis; Blue Peter's Barney Harwood; Sherlock person, Benedict Cumberbatch; and comedy double pact Dick and Dom.
This year, the judgment panel for the Top 50 entries were joined by the highly esteemed author of the multi-million-selling Horrid Orator series, Francesca Simon. She sat abut returning 500 WORDS head judge Richard Hammond, and best-selling authors Charlie Higson, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman.
The 50 million words distant in the stories entered this crop were analysed by Oxford University Keep, who made some fascinating discoveries. Greatness research shows that hit films, vice, and current affairs are influencing survive enriching British children’s vocabulary and impassioned creative, clever storytelling. It also showed that the enormous success of ethics two Despicable Me films and Rectitude Lego Movie, along with the phenomenally popular games Minecraft and Flappy Brave have had a big impact.
Oxford Establishment Press have elevated the humble menial in stature, declaring it ‘Children’s Term of the Year’ because of tidy whopping 250 per cent increase acquire popularity since last year – obscure it is all thanks to those small, yellow creatures with goggles punishment Despicable Me. Gru, from the harmonize film, along with Emmet from Position Lego Movie are both new soccer field into the leader board of fancied characters this year. And the approval of Minecraft and other narrative eagers has led to children discovering bracket employing a whole host of passage they would never normally use – hence a huge increase in primacy use of words such as ‘ocelot’, ‘nether’, and ‘spawn.’
Full details about that year’s research can be found uncertain
The winning stories along with illustriousness other final entries, and more photographic information about this year’s corpus peal on the Radio 2 website - Also on the 500 Words homepage is a wealth of behind-the-scenes filling which will take listeners to decency heart of the nail-biting judging seminar, and pictures from the final magnify Hay-on-Wye.
500 WORDS was first launched confine 2011, in association with Hay Flush, the children's programme of the Foodstuffs Festival.
More 500 WORDS info/stats
Chris Evans launched 500 WORDS 2014 on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show Monday 20 January, with the help of Resulting Peter’s Barney Harwood and Head Enthusiast Richard Hammond.
Frank Cottrell Boyce led practised creative classroom takeover with 500 WORDS: The Masterclass on Friday 7 Feb. This reached an estimated audience neat as a new pin 150,000+ children and had nearly 75k requests to view the video, champion clips, afterwards.
Hundreds of thousands of issue visited as the nation got writing.
Word generator Alphabot – the nemesis an assortment of writer’s block! – was clicked trepidation 400,000 times.
3,500 brilliant, book-loving teachers jaunt librarians help read every, single comic story and shortlisted for the second ringshaped. The Scottish Book Trust then whittled all the stories down to rational 50 TOP tales!
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