BBC Radio 4: Archive on 4: Tolkien: The Lost Recordings
Saturday 6th August 2016: Contribution to BBC Radio 4 programme Archive on 4, on Tolkien: The Lost Recordings, a reflection on the 1968 BBC film Tolkien in Oxford, revealing some previously unbroadcast scenes, thought lost.
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BBC Radio Wales: Radio Wales Arts Show: “Celebrating Alice”
Wednesday 2nd December 2015: Contribution to Radio Wales Arts Show on “Celebrating Alice” in the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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BBC Radio 2: Simon Mayo Drivetime
Wednesday 11 December 2013: Radio interview on BBC Radio 2 by Simon Mayo on Tolkien, his sources and the tradition of fantasy literature.
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BBC Radio 4: Woman’s Hour
Monday 2 July 2007: Radio-interview on BBC Radio 4, for the programme Woman’s Hour, on Food in Literature. Interviewed by Ritula Shah, alongside author Mary Contini, who was short listed for a World Food book award for her first novel Dear Francesca.
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BBC Radio Wales: Jamie and Louise Show
Tuesday 20 December 2011: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the Jamie and Louise Show on Christmas in folklore and literature: Mari Lwyd, Hunting the Wren, Siôn Corn, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (including its origin: ‘The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton’), Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”.
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BBC Radio Wales: Jamie and Louise Show
Monday 14th March 2011:Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the Jamie and Louise Show on Fantasy Literature (its origins, cultural context and its place in the literary canon) on the occasion of Royal Mail’s new series of stamps on Magical Realms.
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BBC Radio Wales: Jamie and Louise Show
Friday 12th November 2010: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the Jamie and Louise Show on the 7th Harry Potter film (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1), including actor Steffan Rhodri who played Reg Cattermole in the film.
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