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Author Description <b>Brian Sibley</b> is an English writer, broadcaster, and award-winning dramatist.<br /><br />The author of over 100 hours of radio drama and hundreds of documentaries and features for the BBC, he is best known for his acclaimed 1981 radio adaptation of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/656983._J__R__R__Tolkien" title=" J. R. R. Tolkien" rel="nofollow noopener"> J. R. R. Tolkien</a>’s The Lord of the Rings, co-written with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10059._Michael_Bakewell" title=" Michael Bakewell" rel="nofollow noopener"> Michael Bakewell</a>, as well as dramatizations of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006._C__S__Lewis" title=" C. S. Lewis" rel="nofollow noopener"> C. S. Lewis</a>’s The Chronicles of Narnia, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22018._Mervyn_Peake" title=" Mervyn Peake" rel="nofollow noopener"> Mervyn Peake</a>’s Gormenghast novels, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7717._Richard_Adams" title=" Richard Adams" rel="nofollow noopener"> Richard Adams</a>’s Watership Down.<br /><br />Sibley has also written numerous original plays for radio, presented popular BBC programmes including Kaleidoscope and Talking Pictures, and produced documentaries on figures ranging from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8164._Lewis_Carroll" title=" Lewis Carroll" rel="nofollow noopener"> Lewis Carroll</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1630._Ray_Bradbury" title=" Ray Bradbury" rel="nofollow noopener"> Ray Bradbury</a> to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14396021._Julie_Andrews" title=" Julie Andrews" rel="nofollow noopener"> Julie Andrews</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54143566._Walt_Disney" title=" Walt Disney" rel="nofollow noopener"> Walt Disney</a>.<br /><br />His contributions to broadcasting have earned him accolades such as the Sony Radio Award and the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation.<br /><br />In print, Sibley is the author of many acclaimed film “making of” books, including Harry Potter: Film Wizardry, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy, and Peter Jackson: A Filmmaker’s Journey, as well as companion volumes for The Hobbit films, The Golden Compass, and Disney classics. His literary works range from Shadowlands to children’s books like The Frightful Food Feud and Osric the Extraordinary Owl, with stories appearing in official Winnie-the-Pooh collections.<br /><br />A noted Disney historian, Sibley has contributed essays to The Walt Disney Film Archives and recorded DVD commentaries for classic films. He is the editor of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor, winner of the Tolkien Society’s Best Book award in 2023.<br /><br />Sibley has served as President and Chair of The Lewis Carroll Society and is an honorary member of The Magic Circle, the Tolkien Society, and The Children’s Books History Society.

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