References in Popular Culture
- J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, remarked that the building resembled Sauron's temple to Morgoth on Númenor. It is also mentioned in The Notion Club Papers.
- Dorothy Sayers' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera. ]
- Elizabeth Kostova's novel The Historian includes a very intense scene set in the interior of the Radcliffe Camera.
- The Camera was used as a location in the films Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Opium Wars (Yapian zhanzheng) (1997), The Saint (1997), and The Red Violin (1998).
- The structure is seen in the 2008 film The Golden Compass. It is also mentioned in Lyra's Oxford, a book in the universe of His Dark Materials.
- The building is also seen in the Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis and Endeavour television series, set in Oxford.
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