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Open Country: Tolkien Land

Series 1307, episode 4

Miles Warde travels round Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire with author John Garth, looking for traces of Tolkien Land at Faringdon Tower and the Rollright Stones. There's also a brief appearance for Sarehole near Birmingham, where the young Tolkien grew up, plus archive of the great writer talking about where his books may have been based