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Peter Jackson; Philip Pullman on William Blake; Memoirs of the Year

Peter Jackson on his final instalment of The Hobbit, Philip Pullman on William Blake at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Kathryn Hughes picks her biographies and memoirs of the year.

Director Peter Jackson and co-writer Philippa Boyens talk to John Wilson about their final instalment of The Hobbit film franchise; the author Philip Pullman reflects on one of his heroes, William Blake, as a new exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford explores his formation as an engraver; and historian Kathryn Hughes makes her selection of biographies and memoirs of the year.

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Wed 3 Dec 2014 19:15
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  • Images from the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition

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Chapters

  • Peter Jackson

    Duration: 10:14

  • William Blake exhibition

    Duration: 07:37

  • The Factory theatre & arts venue

    Duration: 04:29

  • Christmas Wish List: Biographies and Memoirs

    Duration: 05:33

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
, directed by Peter Jackson, is released in UK cinemas on 12 December, certificate 12A.

William Blake: Apprentice and Master

William Blake: Apprentice and Master
The exhibition聽聽opens at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on 4 December and runs until 1 March 2015.

Image:聽William Blake,聽Nebuchadnezzar,聽c. 1795鈥�1805.聽漏 Tate, London.

Christmas Wish List: Biographies and Memoirs

Kathryn Hughes chooses the following books for Front Row's Christmas Wish List:

  • Common People: The History of an English Family, by Alison Light聽
  • H is for Hawk, by Helen MacDonald
  • John Wayne: the Life and Legend, by Scott Eyman
  • An Encyclopaedia of Myself, by Jonathan Meades
  • Those Wild Wyndhams, by Claudia Renton

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Presenter John Wilson
Interviewed Guest Peter Jackson
Interviewed Guest Philippa Boyens
Interviewed Guest Philip Pullman
Interviewed Guest Kathryn Hughes
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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