John Garth interviewed
On television, radio, in print and online
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Film and TV
Speaking in Oxford on ITV Meridian news, 2012, and below on The Return of the King extended DVD, 2004
‘The Hobbit’s connections with the South’, ITV Meridian News, 12 December 2012.
‘The Legacy of Middle-earth’, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King extended DVD (New Line Cinema, 2004).
The Real Middle-earth DVD (Multi Media Arts, 2004). Now distributed by Janson Media and available on YouTube. The DVD contains additional extended interviews with me and others.
Steve Richards, The Sunday Programme (GMTV, 15 February 2004).
Radio
James Cannon Show, BBC Radio Oxford, 3 January 2013.
Tolkien in Love, Radio 4, 3 August 2012.
Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan, Newstalk, Ireland, 28 August 2011.
Roy Noble Show, BBC Radio Wales, August 2010.
Open Book, BBC Radio 4, 14 August 2005.
BBC local radio (Tim Wedgewood, BBC Radio Stoke; Jerry Scott, BBC Yorkshire; Anna Quarendon, BBC Wiltshire; John Florence, BBC Radio Leicester; Julie Maddocks, BBC Kent; Georgy Spanswick, Good Afternoon with Georgy Spanswick, BBC Radio Leeds; Lisa Bradley, BBC Radio Jersey), 7 November 2003.
The Verb, BBC Radio 3, 9 November 2002.
Online and print
Comments on Tolkien's local inspirations, BBC Oxford News, 3 January 2013. Read...
Comments on Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur, The Guardian, 9 October 2012. Read...
Q&A with Michael Martinez of the Middle-earth and JRR Tolkien News website, 15 June 2012. Read...
Q&A with Pieter Collier of the Tolkien Library website, 28 March 2009. Read...
Rodrigo Gonzalez, ‘Tolkien: entre las trincheras y la Tierra Media’, La Tercera, Santiago, Chile, 7 December 2003.
Iain Emsley, Oxford Times, November 2003.