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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Michael Morpurgo: Author discusses his newest book 'Cobweb'
Description: Michael Morpurgo is a literary treasure. The author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, he’s written around 150 books, loved particularly among children and young people. He’s returned with yet another novel, Cobweb following a little dog heading to London in the aftermath of Britain’s triumph at Waterloo. Morpurgo told Jack Tame that much like many of his stories, Cobweb was inspired by a friend of his who walked 250 miles from the West Coast of Wales to London on a drovers’ road.  Drovers’ roads are the paths farmers would use to bring t...