I’ve always loved bringing my sons up to embrace risk, embrace danger. I want them to become ninjas at handling everything.” I don’t know. Am I going to be doing this when I’m 70? Are you going to be doing this when you’re 70? Forget everything you know about perfect princesses and happily ever afters! Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho offers something a little different to traditional fairytales, as he takes us on a new adventure with his series Fairy Tales Gone Bad, in which he reimagines well-known characters with a spookier and more gruesome edge. Join him as he brings his creations Zombierella, Frankenstiltskin and Creeping Beauty to life (don’t worry, they’re not that scary), and shares his tips on how to become a masterful storyteller. Coelho is a poet and storyteller, and the 12th children’s laureate. I’m sure viewers would be happy to know that the dog was not actually out there for 36 hours waiting to be rescued by Bear Grylls.

That’s true. It’s probably like pro sports, right? The fans and the stats will tell you when you’re too old for this shit. I don’t see him ever not doing it until it’s just not an option for him. He loves it so much. You get him out in the wild, he just comes alive. Related The best writers are often said to be enthusiastic life-long readers, and that’s definitely the case for children’s author SF Said. A passionate campaigner for literacy, libraries and reading for pleasure, he is the writer behind Varjak Paw and its sequel The Outlaw Varjak Paw, a duology about a cat who learns a secret martial art. Said will share his love of stories with us, explaining how he went from being a young reader and lover of books to an award-winning author and campaigner for stories for all. A hoffech chi wybod sut y mae cŵn yn siarad yn Gymraeg, Saesneg ac Almaeneg, neu sut mae dweud 'mae eisiau bwyd arnaf i’ yn Sbaeneg ac Almaeneg? Bydd y gweithdy amlieithog hwn, o dan arweiniad y Prifardd Mererid Hopwood, yn canolbwyntio ar rythm geiriau a brawddegau, gan gyflwyno tair neu bedair iaith ar yr un pryd. Drwy’r sesiwn chwareus hwn, bydd disgyblion yn mwynhau dysgu ieithoedd newydd a dysgu sut y mae gwrando’n ofalus ar rythm ac odl.Bear spent time as a soldier in the SAS, honing his survival skills. After his military career he became one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. His Emmy Award-nominated Man vs. Wild TV series grew to be one of the most-watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers. Since then he has gone on to host more extreme adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in the world, including six seasons of the global hit TV show Running Wild with Bear Grylls. The show has included notable personalities including; President Obama, Prime Minister Modi and Julia Roberts, to name a few. I think you always naturally worry about your kids and want them to learn from your mistakes, but generally I would say I’ve learned more from them than they’ve probably learned from me,” says Bear, who has just launched The Bear Grylls Adventure, an activity centre in Birmingham, where teens are encourage to have a go at everything from axe throwing to shark diving. This makes me feel better, because I poisoned him several times over the course of watching the show. Basically we’d be like, “All right, Bear, you’ve got to get across this river. What are two ways you could do that?” And he’d be like, “I could try to swing across on this vine, or I could try to balance on the log and get across.” He’d know in his mind which was the better bet, the safer bet, but we’d let the viewer play with him a little bit, almost like he was their action figure. He’d do both, and then once he would do one, we had a change of clothes if he needed for continuity. We were straddling the unscripted and scripted worlds in a way I’ve never done before. Bear is a number one best-selling author, having written over 90 books, selling in excess of 20 million copies worldwide. He is an Honorary Colonel to the Royal Marines Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Organisation, representing a global family of some 57 million Scouts.

We’d be negligent if we didn’t mitigate risk, so we always find a way to keep us safe. But, for example, if Bear comes down a 200-foot cliff and we’re filming him from the bottom, that means the crew also has to rappel down that 200-foot cliff. The crew is very small. We have two camera guys, a sound guy, a drone operator, and myself. And a couple safety people as needed — sometimes the safety team to crew member ratio is one-to-one. I always like that quote that says, ‘you never want to arrive at the end of your life in a perfectly preserved body’. That’s a waste. You want to come skidding in sideways, covered in scars, beaten up and screaming, ‘Yahoo! What a ride!’” he laughs.There are some circumstances where both options work. You always get funneled onto the frozen lake, for instance. But once you’re on the frozen lake, he knows he’s probably going to fall through it unless he crawls, right? Explore an imagining of the before and after of global warming with Emma Carroll. Her latest time-travelling adventure suggests that the future has a lot to learn from the past… It’s the near future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. For Polly, it’s the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down. Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt’s eco lakeside house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up and, as the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges... Correct. The cameramen stopped because they had to change batteries, and they needed a break because those cameras weigh 40 pounds. I was like, “Aw man, we should be filming this!” But it was too late to capture it. And it was for Netflix Kids, so I didn’t know how they’d feel about naked Bear Grylls. Anyone who’s watching that discerningly can make their own assumptions. What I’ll say is, sometimes it happens naturally, and sometimes we have to push it along a bit. Mae’n bleser gennym gyflwyno’r Rhaglen Ysgolion yn fyw eleni, gyda digwyddiadau wyneb yn wyneb i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnod Allweddol 2 yn cael eu rhedeg ar ddydd Iau 25 Mai ac i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnodau Allweddol 3 a 4 ar ddydd Gwener 26 Mai.

I don’t want to spoil it for the viewer. Let me just say, part of the game is you making bad decisions, and some of those decisions, it’s almost a human rights issue. We’re not gonna… What I meant by the improvisation was, whether Bear fell off the log or not, or whether he made it across on the vine, we didn’t know which way was going to be right and which was going to be wrong until after he did it. So then we’d say, “Okay, that worked, so this moves us on to the next obstacle.” Or, “Shoot, that really screwed up. This is a dead end for the viewer.” For the episodes that have more of a story frame, like the one where he has to rescue the dog, how much did Bear know going in? Did he know where the dog was going to be, or did he figure that out in real time?We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.