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is an award-winning children's author and a listener. He emailed us to say:

"I've been campaigning against the current epidemic of school library closures. It's not been easy to get publicity for this urgent and serious issue and I was therefore surprised to find the story about writers refusing to be checked by the Criminal Records Bureau featuring on PM. Is it the prurient whiff of paedophilia? It has had that classic journalistic effect - hanging the government for something vaguely irritating, while allowing them to walk away whistling, from something absolutely scandalous."

We asked Frank to make his case on the radio, but we didn't arrange an interview, instead we asked him to write a play about libraries. The result, a story about an encounter on a mobile library, can be heard in the player below. Voices are provided by Prunella Scales and Lizzy Watts

There may be more drama on Saturday too; we've invited schools minister Ed Balls to write a story in response.

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