This programme has a strong poetry theme running through it. Presenter Michael Rosen - - offers his top five tips on how to teach poetry - discovers how the book 'Love That Dog' by Sharon Creech inspired creative classroom poetry work at a High School in Halesowen - meets writer and poet Ruth Padel who reveals that the right verse helps her cope with all manner of adversity - including white water rafting - and invites the panel - Julia Eccleshare of the Guardian, teacher Stacey Jordan and Youth Worker Gulham Hassan - to read Khaled Hosseini's novel 'The Kite Runner', a gripping story of boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy and fear, set in war-torn Kabul.

Video Series: Reading Aloud with Michael Rosen
Release Date 2006