Brian Sibley
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Brian Sibley (born July 14, 1949) is an English writer. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programmes.
Born in London, he grew up and was educated in Chislehurst, Kent.
In 1981, he co-wrote BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings with Michael Bakewell, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.
Other major radio dramatisations by Sibley include: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress; Tolkien's Tales of the Perilous Realm; Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World; Lucy M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe and two seasons of Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre.
His books include The Disney Studio Story and Mickey Mouse: His Life and Times, written with Richard Holliss; The Land of Narnia; The Treasury of Narnia, with Alison Sage; Shadowlands: The True Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman; The Book of Guinness Advertising; a biography of Wilbert Vere Awdry, entitled The Thomas the Tank Engine Man; A Christmas Carol: The Unsung Story; Cracking Animation: The Aardman book of 3-D Film-making, with Peter Lord; Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie; Three Cheers for Pooh; and The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth.
He is also the author of the children's book, The Frightful Food Feud, and has edited, among other books, The Pooh Sketchbook and The Pooh Book of Quotations and The Wisdom of C. S. Lewis.
The author of the The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy and other books accompanying the film versions of The Lord of the Rings, he most recently published the official biography of the films' director, Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey.
He is currently writing a book on the making of the film version of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.
A Member of The Magic Circle (Associate of The Inner Magic Circle), he wrote "The House of 10,000 Secrets" on the history of magic and The Magic Circle.
He is an Honorary Member of The Tolkien Society; a former Secretary of The Lewis Carroll Society; a former Secretary and Chairman of The Mervyn Peake Society; and a former (founding) Chairman of The Beatrix Potter Society. He was, for several years, a member of the management Committee of The Society of Authors and Chairman of the Society's Broadcasting Committee.
