Philip Pullman and Miss Jones
Terry Jones presides over a conversation between best-selling author Philip Pullman and his former schoolteacher Enid Jones, whose friendship has endured nearly fifty years.
Terry Jones presides over a conversation between best-selling author Philip Pullman and his former schoolteacher Enid Jones. In an intimate and revealing setting in the Welsh coast town of Harlech, they talk about Philip's first day in school, his early attempts at storytelling, the craft of poetry, reading, writing and other memories.
They reveal how their pupil-teacher relationship has ripened into a friendship that has endured nearly fifty years. Pullman explains the reasons behind his acknowledgement of his former teacher at the end of the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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- Thu 29 Mar 200711:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Mon 2 Apr 200700:15BBC Radio 4 FM
- Fri 21 Aug 201506:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 21 Aug 201513:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 21 Aug 201520:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 22 Aug 201501:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 4 Nov 201711:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 4 Nov 201721:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
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