OT: 1968 Tolkien documentary just released from BBC archives

Tony Ellis · 02 May 2012, 19:06 · from 2012-May.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 20:06:21 +0100
Subject: (urth) OT: 1968 Tolkien documentary just released from BBC archives
Message-ID: <CA+WO8_5F8jJYhTfQD1an4bO=SdqTo0HeVuMtvHxM9pD6CNMhdw at mail.gmail.com>

Some of the Tolkien fans on the list might find this interesting - or
at least amusing.

http://good-report.com/5861/just-released-from-the-bbc-a-rare-1968-interview-with-j-r-r-tolkien-video

This seems to be the programme JRR later wrote scathingly of to Donald
Swann in my copy of The Letters of JRR Tolkien (Feb 29, 1968), except
that there it's called 'Tolkien in Oxford'.

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