Zitat des Tages von Michael Bond:
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.
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
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.
As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.
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.
