Interviews
Times Online, March 17, 2009 (Alan Franks)
As his trilogy reopens at Birmingham Rep, the author of His Dark Materials explains why he's so angry about God.
You don't expect to hear one of Britain's most famous atheists lamenting the loss of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, but that's what you get when you spend time in the surprising company of Philip Pullman. Then there's Hymns Ancient and Modern and the King James Bible, both gone. “The New Revised Standard version is all very fine,” says the 62-year-old author of His Dark Materials, “and I use that when I want to look something up and be sure of understanding it, but it's the language of the King James that I remember.” Read Full Article
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