Media Work
TV, Radio and Newspaper Interviews
BBC Radio Wales: Good Morning Wales
Saturday 19th June 2010: Newspaper Reviews for Good Morning Wales. Stories reviewed: John Lennon's manuscript auctioned; Morte d'Arthur performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter theme park opened.
BBC Radio Wales: Good Morning Wales
Friday 4th June 2010: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the programme Good Morning Wales about my new Tolkien and Fantasy Online Courses at UWIC.
BBC Radio Wales: Good Morning Wales
Sunday 1 November 2009: Newspaper Reviews for Good Morning Wales. Stories reviewed: Restoration of Victoria & Albert museum medieval Trojan War tapestry; exhibition of the Staffordshire Hoard.
BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales
Thursday 29 October 2009: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the programme Good Evening Wales about Festival in the Shire and Tolkien's Welsh connections and inspiration.
History Channel: Clash of the Gods
- Episode 8: Beowulf (first aired: Monday 28 September 2009)
- Episode 9: Tolkien's Monsters (first aired: Monday 5 October 2009)
- Episode 10: Thor (first aired: Monday 12 October 2009)
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BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales
Tuesday 17 February 2009: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales for the programme Good Evening Wales on the importance of the classics in English Literature education.
BBC Radio Wales: Roy Noble Show
Friday 28 November 2008: Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales by Roy Noble on
my book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits.
The Western Mail
Monday 24 November 2008: Article in The Western Mail, based on interview
on my book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits.
BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour
Monday 2 July 2007: Radio-interview on BBC Radio 4, for the programme Woman's
Hour, on Food in Literature.
BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales
Friday 20 July 2007: Radio-interview on BBC Radio Wales, for the programme Good
Evening Wales, on the release of the last book of the Harry Potter series.
The Western Mail
Wednesday 8 December 2004: One-page article in The Western Mail, based
on interview on my course on J.R.R. Tolkien at the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong
Learning.
BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales
Wednesday 8 December 2004: Radio-interview by BBC Radio Wales, for the programme
Good Evening Wales, on J.R.R. Tolkien's 'invented languages' and their
relationship to the Welsh language.
The Western Mail, and The News of the World
Monday 13 January 2003: Interview on Tolkien's 'invented languages' and their
relationship to the Welsh language, parts of which were quoted in a relevant
article in The Western Mail, and in the Welsh Edition of The News
of the World.
