If you knew then, what you know now... what would you tell yourself?
In her BBC Radio 4 podcast, Young Again, journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Young takes her guests back to meet their younger selves and asks the question: if you knew then what you know now, what would you have done differently?
Philip’s reaction to poetry was physical: “You know, my blood moved faster, my hair stood on end, my skin bristled, all that sort of stuff.”Philip Pullman’s novels have legions of fans across the world, some of whom have expressed disappointment or even anger at events in novels or in particular character arcs. Kirsty asks him whether he feels burdened by the expectations of his readers.
“I'm often being asked that sort of question: “Is it alright to have a sort of Christian interpretation of this?” My answer is look, you read it in any way you like. If you want to talk about it, talk about it with someone else and have your different opinions. If you want me to join in this conversation, I can, because I too have read the book. But my vision, my view of what the book means, is no more valid than yours, just because I happen to have written it.
“You can see it in one of these photos,” says Philip of pictures he has from the time. “There's a look passing between these two, which is caught by the photographer. And that signifies something that I didn't get at the time, of course not. But later, after she died, I realised for the first time that she was on the verge of divorce… and something had gone wrong with the marriage.”
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