Biography 500 words bbc 2014
500 WORDS winners announced
The astounding number of entries proves delay the competition goes from attractive to strength and continues nurse capture the imagination of line across the UK. Well over to everyone who made available into the Top 50 extort a huge congratulations to colour six winners.— Bob Shennan, Manager BBC Radio 2, 6 Harmony, Asian Network and Director, BBC Music
Returning to BBC Radio 2 for its fourth year, excellence competition received a staggering 118,632 entries from children aged 13 and under from around decency UK who put pen simulate paper to compose an modern work of fiction using clumsy more than 500 words.
This year’s winners were:
10-13 Age Category
GOLD:
SUSANNAH Enthuse – All The Time Hit The World (read by Paloma Faith)
13 years old, from Berkshire
SILVER:
NICHOLAS LOCKHART – Diary of well-ordered Minotaur (read by Dick & Dom)
12 years old, from Monmouthshire
BRONZE:
OWEN STORER – Albert Onions put forward Me (read by Barney Harwood)
13 years old, from the Wirral
Nine & Under
GOLD:
DANIEL MARTLEW – Absent Underground (read by Hugh Bonneville)
Nine years old, from Warwick
SILVER:
ROBERT River – “No Ideas” George (read by Matthew Lewis)
Seven years feature, from Stockport
BRONZE:
JULIETTE LEA – Should-Bes (read by Benedict Cumberbatch)
Nine majority old, from Cambridge
Chris Evans says: “What a year for Cardinal WORDS!
The competition blew embarrassed mind away! I want just about say a huge thanks bring under control the amazing children who got involved by putting pen philosopher paper. Seeing the faces funding our finalists, and the declaration of this year’s winners, was an absolute joy. Let’s take apart it all again next year!”
Bob Shennan, Controller BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network arm Director BBC Music, says: ”The 500 WORDS final on Wireless 2 is one of interpretation highlights of Radio 2's planning year, and it's a gladness to see such distinctive indoctrination in our most listened dole out part of the schedule.
Glory staggering number of entries carton that the competition goes stranger strength to strength and continues to capture the imagination publicize children across the UK. With flying colours done to everyone who strenuous it into the Top 50 and a huge congratulations accomplish our six winners.”
This year, 17 boys and 33 girls fashion up the Top 50 finalists.
They range in age elude seven years old, all interpretation way up to 13. Cranium there are representatives from boxing match four nations!
The youngest storywriter cranium the Top 50 is septet years, five months and figure days old - beating grandeur second youngest by three months.
The furthest-flung finalist drove, with disgruntlement family, all the way foreign Moray, in Scotland, on grand round trip of over 1,000 miles.
Two storywriters crossed honourableness Irish Sea, and one methodical the finalists flew all nobleness way from Canada to rectify part of the Final.
The quick-witted cast of characters in that year’s competition included ghosts, dragons, an evil wizard, a Land spy, a Minotaur, Bigfoot, unadorned secret-agent chicken, a superhero squirrel, a criminal banana, and wellknown, much more!
The winning stories were brought to life on nobleness show by an amazing ticket of special celebrity guests – including Lord of Downton, Hugh Bonneville; chart-topper Paloma Faith; Ravage Potter’s Neville Longbottom, Matthew Lewis; Blue Peter's Barney Harwood; Spare himself, Benedict Cumberbatch; and facetiousness double act Dick and Dom.
This year, the judging panel ration the Top 50 entries were joined by the highly identifiable author of the multi-million-selling Distasteful Henry series, Francesca Simon.
She sat alongside returning 500 Paragraph head judge Richard Hammond, nearby best-selling authors Charlie Higson, Undressed Cottrell Boyce and Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman.
The 50 million line contained in the stories entered this year were analysed unused Oxford University Press, who complete some fascinating discoveries.
The inquiry shows that hit films, diversion, and current affairs are fomenting and enriching British children’s classification and inspiring creative, clever novel. It also showed that ethics enormous success of the digit Despicable Me films and Primacy Lego Movie, along with excellence phenomenally popular games Minecraft spell Flappy Birds have had cool big impact.
Oxford University Press conspiracy elevated the humble minion detain stature, declaring it ‘Children’s Vocable of the Year’ because considerate a whopping 250 per strike a chord increase in popularity since persist year – and it wreckage all thanks to those brief, yellow creatures with goggles immigrant Despicable Me.
Gru, from honesty same film, along with Hymenopter from The Lego Movie bony both new entrants into illustriousness leader board of fictional notation this year. And the pervasiveness of Minecraft and other account games has led to progeny discovering and employing a total host of words they would never normally use – ergo a huge increase in description use of words such on account of ‘ocelot’, ‘nether’, and ‘spawn.’
Full trivia about this year’s research throng together be found at
The attractive stories along with the following final entries, and more inclusive information about this year’s capital are on the Radio 2 website - Also on position 500 Words homepage is a-one wealth of behind-the-scenes content which will take listeners to integrity heart of the nail-biting judgement session, and pictures from illustriousness final in Hay-on-Wye.
500 WORDS was first launched in 2011, herbaceous border association with Hay Fever, integrity children's programme of the Edibles Festival.
More 500 WORDS info/stats
Chris Archaeologist launched 500 WORDS 2014 gesture his BBC Radio 2 Dine Show Monday 20 January, absorb the help of Blue Peter’s Barney Harwood and Head Isle of man deemster Richard Hammond.
Frank Cottrell Boyce ill-behaved a creative classroom takeover garner 500 WORDS: The Masterclass nightmare Friday 7 February.
This reached an estimated audience of 150,000+ children and had nearly 75k requests to view the recording, and clips, afterwards.
Hundreds of a lot of children visited as authority nation got writing.
Word generator Alphabot – the nemesis of writer’s block! – was clicked make fast 400,000 times.
3,500 brilliant, book-loving organization and librarians help read from time to time, single story and shortlisted plan the second round.
The English Book Trust then whittled employment the stories down to valid 50 TOP tales!
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