Rhianna Dillon

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171 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast · Philip Pullman on 40 years of storytelling, and saying goodbye to beloved characters · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Her three great loves sort of serve her at different points of her life.

You talk about this sort of betrayal between Lyra and Pan, and there is a sort of back and forth about them almost betraying each other.

So if thinking about metaphor and especially about them being the same being, how were you thinking about somebody sort of almost betraying themselves?

You're, of course, a storyteller by profession, and storytelling is such a huge part within all of your stories.

You know, Lyra, I love, because as you say, she kind of loses her imagination a little bit in The Secret Commonwealth, but actually in The Rose Field, there are moments where she's remembering what it is to become another character, to kind of flesh out another person's life, make up details.

So how important do you think storytelling is just in our lives?

I loved all of those references.

So interesting.

And I think people will question that, the idea of the Cinderella story, because Mr. Rochester as well is not the Prince Charming for everybody.

finally he's ready to marry cinderella i know it's so depressing um now you said in to bring it back to the demons for a second you've you've said in previous interviews that your demon would be a raven um a bird that steals things and you use this as a way to sort of explain your writing process so can you tell us a little bit more about that

Yeah.

When you say it's rubbish, do you mean that they're not really taking their own advice, that it's not really the advice that they would be giving?

I would listen to you do that all day.

Oh, well.

So, Alice, one of our listeners wanted to know, how much do you feel like classic books have been involved in your stories?

Tell us a bit more about that.

Can you think of any examples of that in this series?

I knew you were going to say Yanidis.

Yeah.

I love him.

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