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Season 7

March 27, 2025

The Curse of the Silvan Oaks: Meet Debut Fantasy Writer, Georgia Chan…

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to find yourself a hero?

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March 20, 2025

Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 1

We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that ...

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March 13, 2025

Twenty-First Century Tolkien: Prof Nick Groom and What Tolkien Means …

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to be in lockdown?

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March 6, 2025

Twenty-First Century Tolkien: Prof Nick Groom and What Tolkien Means …

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to be in lockdown?

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Feb. 27, 2025

Dr Eleanor Baker: Book of Curses and the Power of the Word

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to lay a curse on a book or library?

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Feb. 20, 2025

Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 12

We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that ...

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Feb. 13, 2025

The Discarded Image and the Key to Narnia

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to be in a medieval universe?

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Feb. 6, 2025

Dragons, Victorians and Forests: Professor John Holmes on Performing …

Where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place for giving a lecture on dragons?

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Jan. 30, 2025

The War of the Rohirrim: Our Verdict

Is this film a hit or miss? Did the New Zealand team, led by Phillippa Boyens, Japanese director Kenji Kamiyama and Executive Producer Peter Jackson, deliver? That's the question that preoccupies Julia Golding and Jacob Renna...

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