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Interview with Humphrey Carpenter
2001
Carpenter talks about meeting Tolkien, the writer's home, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and World Wars 1 and 2, Tolkien's portrayals of evil, writing process, audiences, Tolkien's childhood, religion,...
Interview with Nicholas Hytner
17/01/2003
Hytner discusses His Dark Materials, storytelling, the National Theatre staging Pullman's work, teenage audiences, dealing with spiritual themes, organised religion and morality, comparisons with CS L...
Various shots related to Jeanette Winterson programme (video only, no audio)
05/04/2004
Interior and exterior of a lighthouse, views of the sea, a child alone in a run-down mid twentieth century domestic setting; Winterson standing on a moor, in a lane behind terraced houses, a view over...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
Discusses writing, working as a reporter, getting published; childhood, Danish and Swedish family background, not going to university, reading; Wexford, Kingsmarkham, changes in English towns, Simisol...
PD James and Police Commander Andy Baker at the Crime Museum
14/12/2005
Talk about James' work, changes in policing. Shots of the museum's exhibits as Baker talks James through various cases, death masks, and weapons.
Interview with David Peace
2008
[Camera on Bragg] Influence of Northern writers on Peace, This Sporting Life as model for The Damned Utd, the Yorkshire Ripper, the miners' strike, early writing, fiction vs non-fiction, language chan...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Gore Vidal; other footage
15/05/2008
Discussing America and war, imperialism, music, AIDS, guilt. Vidal is less coherent than other videos. Gore Vidal reads aloud from his memoir Point to Point Navigation. Shots of photographs, art and b...
Clips from 'Pembrokeshire, My County' (an Esso Film)
05/03/2008
Black and white film about Pembrokeshire, sponsored by Esso. Appears to be an incomplete copy- a colour version with added scenes and narration (1960) is available via the British Film Institute, at h...