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Michael Bond: I wrote Paddington to please myself
In his only broadcast interview since the release of the film Paddington, author Michael Bond reveals to John Humphrys that the famous bear started life as a doodle."I didn't intend to write a book at all... I wrote it to please myself." (Photograph by Felicity McCabe.)
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