{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/6a3276f75926b9ca3481fdd9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Frank Cottrell-Boyce: How Our Children Live Now","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/1781689811323-ed6ee722-4482-4728-8ac9-30abef88564e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, whose new book, <em>A British Childhood: How Our Children Live Now</em>, describes what he discovered from the travels he undertook during his work with BookTrust and the Laureateship.</p><p>He tells me what he learned about what really happens when a parent reads to a child, why the crisis in childhood reading is down to much more than the rise of screens – and how <em>Heidi</em> can save your life.</p>","author_name":"The Spectator"}