Decades before Peter Jackson directed his epic adaptations of The Lord of the Rings , JRR Tolkien was involved with the first ever dramatisation of his trilogy, but its significance was not realised in the 1950s and the BBC’s audio recordings are believed...
Read moreThe success of HBO's Game of Thrones has propelled George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series into the stratosphere. But as he tells an Edinburgh international book festival audience, he is first and foremost a novelist who traces a literary lineage...
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