Michael Bond
Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond, CBEis an English author, best known for his Paddington Bear series of books. Bond was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 January 1926
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After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
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The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
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It's nice having a bear about the house.
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Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
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I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
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I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
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My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
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Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.