The Times reports on a religious debate which took place at the Oxford Literary Festival in which Philip Pullman was a participant. Amongst others taking part were Sarfraz Manzoor and Timothy Garton. Debate varied from the case of the anti-islamic Danish cartoon, to the work of Pullman himself who was unfortunately suffering from a heavy cold. Pullman was directly questioned by one audience member on the Golden Compass movie and the religious aspects found within and why New Line Cinema had seemingly played down such debate to avoid controversy. Pullman did concede that the questioner had a point and also told the audience how last year an Oxford mosque had received hate mail which had been signed by “Philip Pullman”. You can read the report in full here.