Fantasy Classics Episodes

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Guest Butch Hartman -- Best Place To Be A Fairy Godmother

As we celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's platinum Jubilee, we are wondering who are your favourite fantasy royals? Author and Director of OCF, Julia Golding, has had a go at picking her top ten favourites. See if you agree with her. Is there anyone who should have made the list and been left out? And which is your favourite Middle-earth royal? Visit http://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org for great gift items, event information, and sign up for our newsletter for super surprises!

Guest Gabriel Schenk -- Best place for enchanted swords

Best Place For Spoken Word

Best Place For Maps

Best Place To Be A Fantastic Beast

Guest Jacob Rennaker

Guest Jacob Rennaker

Guest Jacob Rennaker

Guest Sørina Higgins

With Host Julia Golding

With Julia Golding

Guest Ingrid Hanson

Guest Stanley Hanna

With Special Guest Caroline Jones

With Julia Golding

Are you a re-reader of your favourite fantasy books? Join Julia Golding as she recalls the first time through the wardrobe and into Middle-earth. This leads to thoughts on the power of fantasy and why some dislike it. She goes on to look at Margaret Atwood, Terry Pratchett, and others as they defend the genre. Next is a deep-dive into why LotR in particular works as a book to return to again and again, then take a little side journey with the Equal Opportunities Commission... She ends by decidin...

With guest Lisa Coutras Terris

What was it like to be behind the scenes as the very first Star Wars films were made? What was it like to be in the room to hear John Williams' soundtrack for the first time? What were the differences working with George Lucas and James Cameron (Avatar)? And what Starwars memorabilia has our special guest got saved up for his retirement - and on which planet will that be? In this special edition of Mythmakers with a friend of the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, Joe Gallagher, we discuss the last half...