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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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30 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Nov 2017 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Thu 29 Mar 2007 11:30
  • Mon 2 Apr 2007 00:15
  • Fri 21 Aug 2015 06:30
  • Fri 21 Aug 2015 13:30
  • Fri 21 Aug 2015 20:30
  • Sat 22 Aug 2015 01:30
  • Sat 4 Nov 2017 11:30
  • Sat 4 Nov 2017 21:30

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