THE WORLD OF PHILIP PULLMAN

RUNTIME: 49 MINS

CAT: AWA021
UPC: 881482302192
RRP: $14.95

The World of Philip Pullman is constructed around an exclusive interview with the acclaimed author, and scripted by his friend and Pullman scholar Nick Tucker, one of Britain's best known critics of children's literature.

Haunted by the death of his hero father in mysterious circumstances during the time of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, Philip Pullman spent much of his early life travelling the globe, until finally settling down in Wales, and later Oxford, where he lives today. His love of literature was first awoken by his English teacher, Enid Jones, during his time at secondary school, leaving him with a firm grip on Milton's Paradise Lost, which was to be put to use many years later. His time at Oxford University is remembered as are his days as a teacher, neither of which left him completely satisfied.

His teaching days did, however, provide him with the opportunity to first practise his skills as a writer. All his major writing to date is reviewed, together with his career as an author, with the exception of HIS DARK MATERIALS.*

*An in-depth study of the latter may be found in a sister program entitled INSIDE HIS DARK MATERIALS.

SPECIAL DVD EXTRAS

• Tour of Inspiration through Exeter Colleg
• Interview with Merfyn Jones, Pullman’s childhood friend
• Interview with Enid Jones, Pullman’s teacher