THE SECRET SEVEN by Enid Blyton: The Secret Seven Society was having its usual weekly meeting. Its meeting place was down in the old shed at the bottom of the garden belonging to Peter & Janet. On the door were... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
KING SOLOMON'S MINES by Rider Haggard: It is a curious thing that at my age, I shall never see sixty again, I should find myself taking up... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton: The Borrowers lived in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpieces, inside the harpsichord, underneath the kitchen clock. They owned nothing, borrowed everything, and... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens: My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling : Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more that any other time of the year. For another,... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG by Ian Fleming: Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Arthur C. Clarke: The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift: My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel-College in Cambridge, at Fourteen Years old, where I... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
ROBIN HOOD & HIS MERRY MEN by Antonio Fraser: It was Christmas Eve, & in the great Forest of Sherwood the snow lay thick upon the ground. As the shadows lengthened towards evening, a stealthy figure could be seen creeping from tree to tree. He had a bow in his hand, and... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
DEAR ZOO by Rod Campbell: I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet. They sent me... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
THE IRON GIANT by Ted Hughes: The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made?... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by Roald Dahl: These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, and these very old people are... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ THE JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling: It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
[ WORZEL GUMMIDGE by Barbara Euphan Todd: Probably, if it had not been for whooping cough, John & Susan would not have seen the... REAL ANSWER Not broadcast] | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding: The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |
EACH PEACH PAIR PLUM by Janet & Allan Ahlberg: Each peach pair plum, I spy Tom Thumb. Tom Thumb in the cupboard, I spy Mother Hubbard. Mother Hubbard down the cellar,... REAL ANSWER | Halifax 19 Jun 2006 |