BBC Bitesize

And he looked at me and was like, I don't believe there's ever going to be more of a time for you to write a story than right now.

And it was really nice because it meant that I could, for the mornings, I could wrestle the kids into learning maths on BBC Bitesize.

And then in the afternoon, I actually had time to myself and I could write this story that became really entertaining, but also just complete reason to escape from reality because I stuck them all on a desert island.

Well, we absolutely loved that book, and I think it also shows the real skill and breadth of your writing as well, to have these novels next to each other that are so wildly different, and the processes are so different.

Another thing that people don't realize about the BBC, three and a half million children a week see Newsround in term time.

80% of secondary school stu- students use Bitesize from the BBC.

We, we're more trusted by 12-year-olds than any other organization apart from their parents, if that's an organization.

So there's a lot to build on here.

Um, in doing that, um, it's kind of creating a legacy to bring Black British music into the conversation that people can study.

At the moment actually, there is a resource on BBC Bitesize that I'm in, um, for, uh, students at secondary school, I believe, um, so that they can learn about that in the same way they can learn about Mozart, one of your faves.

Yes.

Um, so you know, putting that kind of knowledge into education, into the academy so it's, it's some- a resource that everybody can access and can learn about and see the value of, uh, you know, the multiculture that is in Britain.