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"Malorie Blackman" (27 results)
Former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman talks about her work and reads from her best-selling novel Noughts and Crosses.
As she prepares to publish her long-awaited autobiography, former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman discusses the key moments ...
Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about the final novel in her hugely successful Noughts and Crosses series of books for young people.
Writer Malorie Blackman and dramatist Sabrina Mahfouz on the new UK tour of the stage play Noughts and Crosses.
Bestselling British writer Malorie Blackman talks about her page-turning novel for teenagers and young adults ...
Famous faces explore their love of poetry. Malorie Blackman explains how poems have sustained her at the best and worst times, and fin...
Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman on how Alice Walker's novel ''The Color Purple'' legitimised her need to be a writer. S...
Malorie Blackman talks about why she loves Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'The British'.
Malorie Blackman talks about her family and upbringing in relation to the poem 'Wherever I Hang' by Grace Nichols.
Alan Yentob and some schoolchildren explain the premise of Malorie Blackman's ''Noughts and Crosses''.
Alan Yentob and Malorie Blackman discuss the distressing end with Calum's death and other tragic themes that are pres...
Malorie Blackman describes how all the protagonists in books were white when she was young, and never black like her.
Malorie Blackman describes how she used her anger from past prejudices and traumas to channel her writing. Particularly she admits how Ca...
Malorie Blackman tells of her brush with death and love of sci-fi that fed into her writing ''Pig-Heart Boy''.
Malorie Blackman and guests talk about the lack of black representation in novels, on covers and in publishing as a whole.
Excerpts from Malorie Blackman's ''Noughts and Crosses'' and intercut with discussions on historical and racially-charged political moment...
Dina Asher-Smith reads Noughts + Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
Sephy and Callum were made for each other. But how can they ever be together when one is a Cross and the other a Nought? Malorie B...
Adaptation of the novel by Malorie Blackman, about the life of a teenage boy with a viral heart transplant.
Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's best-selling young adult novel Noughts and Crosses for BBC1, creating an alternative world where Euro...
With Kirsty Lang, including a report from the opening night of Noughts and Crosses, the RSC's stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's acclai...
Susan Calman and Malorie Blackman join Matt and Alex to talk about the new BBC adaptation of the dystopian novels Noughts and Crosses.
Guests and schoolchildren discuss the effect of ''Noughts and Crosses'' and how it holds a mirror up to society.
London, Albion; Sephy, the Cross daughter of powerful Home Secretary Kamal Hadley, and Callum, the Nought son of their housekeeper Meggi...
Tired of life on the run, Callum and Sephy are forced to extreme measures as they try to flee Albion for good. Meanwhile, hate crime aga...
Malorie Blackman and Irish poet Niall McDevitt discuss William Blake's poem and hymn 'Jerusalem'.
Jackie Kay and Malorie Blackman talk about why poetry is so important.
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