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Thousands at Movie Auditions
April 4, 2006
The first of the open auditions for Lyra was held today, at Cambridge. Thousands of young hopefuls turned up and queuing started very early, with CBBC putting an estimate of some 1200 girls there. The auditions at Kendal have also … Continue reading
Flights of the Fantastic
March 31, 2006
In The Courier Mail today, four Australian fantasy writers discuss the His Dark Materials trilogy in a roundtable, going into quite some depth. The authors talk of Pullman's role in the trend in fantasy away from the Tolkein-style Norse and … Continue reading
Stage Tickets Up for Grabs
March 28, 2006
We've a pair of tickets for Playbox's stage production of His Dark Materials to give away, courtesy of the group. The first staging of the play outside of the National Theatre's incredibly successful run, Playbox's imagining of HDM will star … Continue reading
Pullman on Hawking
March 28, 2006
Last February, Philip Pullman attended a lecture given in Oxford by Professor Stephen Hawking on cosmology and our understanding of the origins of the universe. Mr. Pullman was invited to make some remarks after dinner in response, and you can … Continue reading
A treasure house for well-thumbed pages
March 25, 2006
Philip Pullman writes in The Times today of his love of libraries and the necessity to preserve them in an increasingly internet dominated age, praising the Love Libraries movement launched this week. “Libraries of every sort are treasure houses. I … Continue reading
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