{"id":555,"date":"2007-12-12T22:33:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/bbc-oxford-meets-pullman-in-the-retiring-room\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:24:21","slug":"bbc-oxford-meets-pullman-in-the-retiring-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/bbc-oxford-meets-pullman-in-the-retiring-room\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Oxford meets Pullman in the Retiring Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/compass_203_203x152.jpg' title='compass_203_203x152.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/compass_203_203x152.jpg' alt='compass_203_203x152.jpg' align=\"right\" hspace=\"15\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/oxford\/content\/articles\/2007\/12\/04\/golden_compass.shtml\">BBC Oxford<\/a>&#8216;s Martin Eastaugh has shared with us his extended interview with Philip Pullman, conducted in the senior common room of Exeter College, our world&#8217;s equivalent to Jordan College&#8217;s Retiring Room.  &#8220;The interview contains some rather nice stuff about the story behind the books, the boycott of the film and some insights into the Oxford locations in the story. There&#8217;s also a nice anecdote about when he met JRR Tolkein.&#8221;  Pullman also shares some possible content for the Book of Dust.<\/p>\n<p>Eastaugh also catches up with Catholic League president Bill Donahue who describes Pullman as a &#8220;master storyteller&#8221;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/oxford\/content\/articles\/2007\/12\/04\/golden_compass.shtml\">Click here<\/a> to access both interviews.  He also links to his exploration of Oxford-His Dark Materials connections and some response from the first to see the movie in Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Oxford&#8216;s Martin Eastaugh has shared with us his extended interview with Philip Pullman, conducted in the senior common room of Exeter College, our world&#8217;s equivalent to Jordan College&#8217;s Retiring Room. &#8220;The interview contains some rather nice stuff about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/bbc-oxford-meets-pullman-in-the-retiring-room\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,3,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-dust","category-interviews","category-philip-pullman","category-the-book-trilogy","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}