{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  \u0026lsquo;Old Edwardians\u0026rsquo; such as the \u0026lsquo;distinguished trio of 20th-century intellects, J.R.R. Tolkien, Enoch Powell and the Nobel Prizewinner, Sir John Vane (Medicine), offer perhaps our best known examples  of true academic distinction,\u0026rsquo; the KES website says. And in Coe\u0026rsquo;s excellent tale of 1970s Brummie life, published earlier this year, we read this: \u0026lsquo;Birmingham, Doug maintained, had produced two  notable racist thinkers in the last few decades: Enoch Powell and J.R.R. Tolkien.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}