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Roy Apps

Roy Apps (born 1951) is a British screenwriter, dramatist and children's author. In 2001 Roy Apps was awarded a personal BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children's film and television. For 10 years he wrote for the award-winning CBBC series Byker Grove where his first job was to write out the show's leading characters "PJ and Duncan" played by Ant and Dec. He co-devised and wrote for the award-winning series The Ghost Hunter and has contributed to many other TV series, including Chucklevision, Barmy Aunt Boomerang, Stacey Stone and Casper's Scare School. In 2019 his black comedy Dr Bodkin's Needle, featuring Celia Imrie, was produced by Pier Productions for BBC 1. He is the author of 98 children's books. In 1991 his novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won the Writers’ Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. Of his most recent titles, Charlie - Prince Of Wheels is published by the Oxford University Press and his Sporting Heroes series is published by Franklin Watts. He has written over a hundred scripts for BBC radio, including Hopping Down in Kent and a dramatisation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman, both of which won Sony Awards.…

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Roy Apps (born 1951) is a British screenwriter, dramatist and children's author. In 2001 Roy Apps was awarded a personal BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children's film and television. For 10 years he wrote for the award-winning CBBC series Byker Grove where his first job was to write out the show's leading characters "PJ and Duncan" played by Ant and Dec. He co-devised and wrote for the award-winning series The Ghost Hunter and has contributed to many other TV series, including Chucklevision, Barmy Aunt Boomerang, Stacey Stone and Casper's Scare School. In 2019 his black comedy Dr Bodkin's Needle, featuring Celia Imrie, was produced by Pier Productions for BBC 1. He is the author of 98 children's books. In 1991 his novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won the Writers’ Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. Of his most recent titles, Charlie - Prince Of Wheels is published by the Oxford University Press and his Sporting Heroes series is published by Franklin Watts. He has written over a hundred scripts for BBC radio, including Hopping Down in Kent and a dramatisation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman, both of which won Sony Awards.…

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  1. date of birth: 1951 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of birth is "1951". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343571849

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