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500 Words 2016: The Final

Live from Shakespeare's Globe in London, the 2016 final of 500 Words, with the six winning wordsmiths announced on air by celebrity narrators.

With a fanfare and a flourish, it's the 500 Words 2016 Final! An extravaganza of live music, superstar celebs and sensational story-telling, we celebrate the winning stories of the Chris Evans Breakfast Show's short-story writing competition.

The six winning wordsmiths will be announced on-air by celebrity narrators and serenaded by princes of pop - all live from the home of British story-telling, Shakespeare's Globe, in the year of the playwright's 400th anniversary.

It has been a record year for the 500 Words competition with a terrific total of 123,436 entries - that's over 60 million words! Each one was read by a fantastic team of volunteer teachers and librarians from around the UK, before being whittled down to the Top 50 finalists by the Reading Agency.

Our panel of judges - Charlie Higson, Francesca Simon, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Malorie Blackman and Honorary Judge, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall - then had the gruelling task of selecting 3 winners in each age category (ages five to nine and ages ten to thirteen) from this group of talented young writers.

2 hours, 25 minutes

Last on

Fri 27 May 2016 07:05
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

    • The Essential One & Only Jerry Lee Le.
    • Trax Records.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Paul Simon

    Wristband

    • (CD Single).
    • Concord Music Group.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • David Bowie

    Golden Years

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Bastille

    Pompeii

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 May 2016 07:05
    BBC Radio 2

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500 Words

BBC Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.