For those of you who don't know, he's the UK Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries, and as such is responsible for supervising library services in England; you can read more about how badly he's failed to do this at the excellent Public Libraries News.
For those of you who do know - and that's all of you now, if you've read the preceding paragraph - I hope you enjoy this little home movie.
Please feel free to share it around. You'll find the embed code here if you'd like to screen it on your own blog or website.
John's website is at www.visitingauthor.com.
He's on twitter as @JohnDougherty8.
His latest books include:
Finn MacCool and the Giant's Causeway - a retelling for the Oxford Reading Tree
Bansi O'Hara and the Edges of Hallowe'en
Zeus Sorts It Out - "A sizzling comedy... a blast for 7+" , and one of The Times' Children's Books of 2011, as chosen by Amanda Craig
