TWICE UPON A TIME (with Janet Ellis‪)‬ Hat Trick Productions

Quintessential English actress Hayley Mills, star of numerous films including the original Parent Trap, That Darn Cat and the BAFTA winning Whistle Down The Wind joins Janet this week with her choice 'My Friend Flicka' by Mary O'Hara. This book which enthralled the young Hayley still holds the adult reader now with its examination of adult perspectives within the book as well as the bond between horses and their humans. Reminiscences about Hayley's early life include where she used to read as a child and how her home life was kept resolutely normal after her filming commitments had pause.
Twice Upon A Time is a Hat Trick Podcast
Produced by Caroline Raphael
Post Production by Diggory Waite and Andy Goddard
Exec Producer Claire Broughton
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Best-selling author Anthony Horowitz is known not only for his original works such as the Magpie Murders and the Hawthorne Series but also for managing to inhabit existing characters such as Sherlock Holmes and James Bond in his hugely successful continuation novels of these series. For generations of younger readers however it is his Alex Rider novels that have proved hugely popular and also a gateway for many to properly addictive reading. His choice is The Seven Crystal Balls, a Tintin mystery (and the first half of a two part mystery).
Anthony's latest novel 'A Twist of A Knife' is the latest Hawthorne Mystery available now.
Twice Upon A Time with Janet Ellis is a Hat Trick Podcast.
The Producers are Claire Broughton and Caroline Raphael
Recording and Editing by Andy Goddard and Diggory Waite
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Celebrated novelist Victoria Hislop joins Janet this week to talk about 'I Am David' by Anne Holm. Victoria describes wonderfully how she remembers the book being to her class by their teacher and also how it inspired her in her own writing.
Victoria's latest book Maria's Island is a brilliant children's adaptation of her bestseller The Island.
Twice Upon A Time with Janet Ellis is a Hat Trick Production
Producers are Caroline Raphael and Diggory Waite
Executive Producer for Hat Trick is Claire Broughton

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Champion Quizzer Paul Sinha joins Janet this week with his choice of - of course - The Guinness Book of Records (1982 edition, year specifically chosen by Paul). Expect facts galore, an examination of 1982 as a whole and how Paul and Janet would best each qualify for entry into this distinguished tome.
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The brilliant novelist and podcaster Elizabeth Day joins Janet today with her choice of book 'The Ordinary Princess' by M.M.Kaye.
Kaye is probably best known for her novel 'The Far Pavilions' which drew from her time growing up in India, which has also been made into a television series and a musical, but this tale of the princess who strives to be ordinary feels ahead of its time in terms of a female protagonist who is resolute in choosing to lead the life she wishes to lead and not that perhaps expected of her.
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Just before we take a brief break to record some more episodes, here is Janet's own choice - The Swish Of The Curtain by Pamela Brown
Written when the author was 13 in 1938 it was finished a couple of years later and followed by several sequels. Pamela would later use the money she earned from the book to pay her way through drama school, eventually becoming an actress and producer for television.
Twice Upon A Time is presented by Janet Ellis
Recorded by Caroline Raphael
Edited by John Wakefield
Exec Producer is Claire Broughton
Follow us @twiceuponpod for pictures of the vintage books and our guests (their owners!)
Twice Upon A Time is a Hat Trick Podcast

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