{"id":736,"date":"2009-04-23T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-on-adapting-oxford\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T06:25:28","slug":"pullman-on-adapting-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-on-adapting-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman on adapting Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordtimes.co.uk\/leisure\/4311025.Philip_Pullman_s_His_Dark_Materials__Playhouse\/\">interview with Philip Pullman in the Oxford Times<\/a> to coincide with the new run of the His Dark Materials stage play, Pullman discusses the representation of Oxford in the books and the play. &#8220;Oxford does feature in many works of literature, starting, I suppose, with Alice in Wonderland. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m happy to be putting my little contribution into the myth of Oxford. &#8230; It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just a habit of thought, I suppose, a way of looking at things I&#8217;ve always had. Sunderland Avenue, between the Banbury Road and Woodstock Road roundabouts, has always fascinated me because the hornbeam trees there are so peculiar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=justify>Pullman also talks about the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production, and makes a new suggestion on the reason for the apparent decision not to produce sequels to the film version of the books, saying &#8220;It&#8217;s a great shame that it looks as if the films of the two later books won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t now be made, as a result of the credit crunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Philip Pullman in the Oxford Times to coincide with the new run of the His Dark Materials stage play, Pullman discusses the representation of Oxford in the books and the play. &#8220;Oxford does feature in many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-on-adapting-oxford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15,3,19,16,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-oxford","category-philip-pullman","category-stage-adaptations","category-the-book-trilogy","category-golden-compass-movie","category-subtle-knife-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}