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CNET News 'Heckerty' stories come to life on tablets, phones (podcast) Larry Magid speaks with Jan Ziff, the co-creator and voice of Meet Heckerty, an iOS and Android app based on a popular British children's story. by Larry Magid | May 21, 2012 10:44 AM PDT [http://radiolarry.com/cnetaudio/jan_ziff_heckerty.mp3]

Heckerty, a green-faced 409-year-old witch

(Credit: Meet Heckerty) Heckerty, a 409-year-old green-faced witch, can't seem to get anything right, but fortunately she has a loyal cat named Zanzibar who comes to her rescue. The iOS and Android [http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/] app, Meet Heckerty [http://www.heckerty.com/Index.html] , is based on a series of stories by Anne Rachlin. [http://www.annrachlin.com/] They are narrated by Rachlin's daughter Jan Ziff. Ziff, whose daily radio show Sound*Bytes [http://www.soundbytesradio.com/] is heard on CBS Radio News stations, is a longtime broadcast journalist with stints at the BBC and Voice of America (Disclosure: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30977_3-57438392-10347072/heckerty-stories-come-to-life-on-tablets-phones-podcast/ Page 1 of 3 'Heckerty' stories come to life on tablets, phones (podcast) | For the Record Podcast - CNET News 5/21/12 8:12 PM

CBS Radio News is owned by CNET's parent company CBS and I also broadcast for CBS News). There are both tablet [http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/] and phone versions of Meet Heckerty for Android and iOS.

Meet Heckerty co-creator and voice Jan Ziff

(Credit: Jan Ziff) Click below to listen to podcast interview with Jan Ziff. Listen Now: Download Today's Podcast [http://radiolarry.com/cnetaudio/jan_ziff_heckerty.mp3] Flash Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast? id=307832602] | RSS (audio) [http://magidpodcast.cnet.com/]

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