CREDENTIALS
Long-standing member of the Lewis Carroll Society (since 1975)
Secretary:
1976-1979Chairman: 1982-1985
Treasurer: 1986-1989
Director of Publishing: 1990-2002
Chairman of the Editorial Board: 1998-2002
Publications Distribution Officer: 2001-onwards
Member of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America (since 1976)
Founder Member of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan (since 1994)
Member of the Lewis Carroll Society of Australia (since 1997)
Member of the Lewis Carroll Society of Canada (since 1997)
Teacher’s Certificate, Bishop Otter College, Chichester: 1967
B.Sc. (First Class Honours) Mathematics, Hatfield Polytechnic: 1975
M.Sc. Mathematical Education, Christ Church, Oxford University: 1983
M.A. (Honorary from University of Luton): 1996, for contribution to literary scholarship, specifically Lewis Carroll
Books published with a Lewis Carroll theme:
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THE LOGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL Privately published in a limited edition of 300 copies in 1978 Now out of print
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND, LEWIS CARROLL’S FAMOUS STORY ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY FURNISS Limited edition of 42 copies privately printed for the Lewis Carroll Society in 1985. Now out of print |
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THE CIPHER ALICE The Lewis Carroll Society, 1990 A translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into Carroll’s Telegraph Cipher with illustrations by children. ISBN: 0 904117 31 6 |
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN CURRICULUM-LAND Bedfordshire Education Service, 1990 Compiled to support an Exhibition for Teachers and Pupils, November 1990. Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL’S GAMES AND PUZZLES Dover Publications, New York, USA, published in the USA in May 1992, and published in the UK in November 1992 A collection of 42 games and puzzles, mostly invented by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0 486 26922 1 |
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SKEFFINGTON HUME DODGSON, BROTHER OF LEWIS CARROLL, VICAR OF VOWCHURCH, 1895-1910: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Privately published in November 1992 A biographical account of Dodgson’s brother |
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THE OXFORD PAMPHLETS OF LEWIS CARROLL University Press of Virginia in conjunction with The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1993 The reproduction of 66 pamphlets, leaflets and circulars by Lewis Carroll. ISBN: 0 8139 1250 4 |
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 1 The Lewis Carroll Society, 1993 A complete and unabridged version of Carroll’s private journal, published for the first time with the permission of the Trustees of the C. L. Dodgson Estate. This first volume covers the year 1855, and is fully annotated with a comprehensive index ISBN: 0 904117 06 5 |
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 2 The Lewis Carroll Society, 1994 This volume covers the year 1856, and is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 07 3
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 3 The Lewis Carroll Society, 1995 This volume covers the period January 1857 to April 1858, and is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 08 1
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REDISCOVERED LEWIS CARROLL PUZZLES Dover Publications, New York, USA, 1995 Another 42 puzzles collected from a variety of sources ISBN: 0 486 28861 7
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND DECK AND BOOK SET U. S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, USA, 1996 Containing the Alice in Wonderland Puzzle and Game Book ISBN: 0 88079 704 5 |
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 4 The Lewis Carroll Society, 1997 This volume covers the period May 1862 to September 1864, and also a reconstruction of the missing years 1858-1862. It is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 09 X |
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LEWIS CARROLL: CORRESPONDENCE NUMBERS Private publication dated December 1997 Now out of print
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ALICE IN ESCHERLAND Jointly written interactive calendar for 1998 QED Publications, 1998 ISBN: 1 85853 026 1 Now out of print |
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LEWIS CARROLL: PRESENTATION COPIES OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Private publication dated December 1998 Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 5 The Lewis Carroll Society, 1999 This volume covers the period September 1864 to January 1868, and includes "The Russian Journal." It is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 10 3 |
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LEWIS CARROLL: PRESENTATION COPIES OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND Private publication dated December 1999 Now out of print
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PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHED BY C. L. DODGSON: A LIST OF PORTRAITS Private publication dated December 2000 Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 6 The Lewis Carroll Society, 2001 This volume covers the period April 1868 to December 1876, and is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 15 4
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C. L. DODGSON’S MEMORIA TECHNICA FOR NUMBERS Private publication dated December 2001 Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL, PHOTOGRAPHER Jointly with Roger Taylor Princeton University Press, 2002 Short-listed in the Kraszna-Krausz Awards for best photography book in 2002. The most comprehensive book on Lewis Carroll’s photography ISBN: 0 691 07443 7 |
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A SCRAPBOOK COMPILED BY CHARLES L. DODGSON Private publication dated December 2002 Jointly prepared with August A. Imholtz, Jr. and David H. Schaefer Now out of print |
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 7 The Lewis Carroll Society, 2003 This volume covers the period January 1877 to June 1883, and is fully annotated with an index. ISBN: 0 904117 27 8
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LEWIS CARROLL AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS Jointly with Morton N. Cohen Cornell University Press: September 2003 (US Edition) Macmillan and Company: October 2003 (UK Edition) ISBN: 0 8014 4148 X ISBN: 0 333 78307 7 |
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THE REAL LEWIS CARROLL Private publication dated December 2003 Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 8 The Lewis Carroll Society, 2004 This volume covers the period July 1883 to June 1892, and is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 28 6
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LEWIS CARROLL’S WHITE STONE DAYS Private publication dated December 2004 Now out of print
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 9 The Lewis Carroll Society, 2005 This volume covers the period July 1892 to December 1897, and is fully annotated with an index ISBN: 0 904117 29 4
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FIRST TIME: THE FIRST USE OF WORDS BY LEWIS CARROLL Private publication dated December 2005 Now out of print
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MACMILLAN EDITIONS OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Private publication dated December 2006 Now out of print
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THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LEWIS CARROLL The Lewis Carroll Society, July 2007 Exhibition catalogue with an introduction by Colin Ford ISBN: 9780904117356
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ALICE IN I. D. 25 Private publication, August 2007 Jointly with Mavis Batey, reprint of a suppressed parody of Alice first published in 1918, concerning intelligence and code-breaking in World War One ISBN: 978 1 904733 04 0 |
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LEWIS CARROLL’S DIARIES: VOLUME 10 The Lewis Carroll Society, September 2007 A complete index to the surviving nine volumes and a reconstruction of two missing volumes covering the years 1851-1855 ISBN: 9780904117349 |
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SNIPPETS OF CARROLLIAN INTEREST Private publication, December 2007 Now out of print
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LIVES OF VICTORIAN LITERARY FIGURES: LEWIS CARROLL Part VI, Carroll, Stevenson and Swinburne, in Three Volumes Compiler and editor of the Lewis Carroll Volume Pickering and Chatto Publishers, London, January 2008 ISBN: 9781851969050 Reprint of biographical papers
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Articles published:
A series of articles published in the Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society, Jabberwocky, from 1977-1997:
(a-01) "What I tell you forty-two times is true!" Volume 6, Number 4 (1977). An article reporting Carroll’s fascination with the number forty-two.
(a-02) "The Mathematical Scholarship of Charles L. Dodgson" and "An Assessment of General List of Subjects, 1863, and A Guide to the Mathematical Student, 1864." Volume 7, Number 1(1978). A paper discussing
Carroll’s mathematical education and a review of two of his mathematical works.
(a-03) "Charles L. Dodgson and Mathematics." Volume 8, Number 1 (1978). A paper that discussed Carroll’s standing as a Victorian mathematician.
(a-04) "The Centenary of Euclid and His Modern Rivals." Volume 8, Number 3 (1979). A celebration of Carroll’s only dramatisation.
(a-05) "The Game of Logic, 1887." Volume 11, Number 1 (1982). A review of Carroll’s first publication on logic.
(a-06) "Lewis Carroll’s Rooms at Christ Church." Volume 12, Number 3 (1983). Results of a research project to locate Carroll’s rooms at Christ Church from 1851-1898 that corrected a number of previous errors made by biographers.
(a-07) "Further findings about the number forty-two." Volume 17, Numbers 1 & 2 (1988). A follow-up article to (a) with new material.
(a-08) "Notes by an Oxford Chap." Volume 20, Numbers 1 & 2 (1991). A personal account of my researches and discoveries in the Library and Archives at Christ Church.
(a-09) Guest Editorial Volume 20, Numbers 3 & 4 (1991). To celebrate the First International Lewis Carroll Conference held at Christ Church during the summer of 1989.
(a-10) "Concerning Canon D B Eperson" and "A List of the Modern Publications of Dodgson’s Mathematical Works." Volume 21, Number 1 (1992). Introduction to Canon Eperson’s revised paper (1933) on "Lewis Carroll, Mathematician,"
and a checklist of current works.
(a-11) "The Illustration Plan for Through the Looking-Glass." Volume 21, Number 2 (1992). A paper on Carroll’s schedule discovered in the Library at Christ Church.
(a-12) "Two Letters from Lorina to Alice." Volume 21, Number 4 (1992). Publication of two revealing letters found at Christ Church, written by Alice’s sister Lorina in 1930.
(a-13) "Further early reviews of Alice’s Adventures." Volume 22, Number 1 (1993). First re-printing of a review of Alice found in the Westminster Review 1866.
(a-14) "The Publication of Lewis Carroll’s Private Journal." Volume 22, Number 4 (1993).
In addition, I have written a number of book and film reviews (8) and letters to the Editor (3) which have been published in Jabberwocky over the years.
Articles published in the Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society, The Carrollian, from 1998:
(b-01) "Alice Illustrated by Harry Furniss" jointly with Selwyn Goodacre, No. 3, Spring 1999
(b-02) "Lewis Carroll’s Correspondence Numbers, Part I" No. 6, Autumn 2000
(b-03) "Lewis Carroll’s Correspondence Numbers, Part II" No. 7, Spring 2001
(b-04) "What Happened to Lewis Carroll’s Diaries?" No. 8, Autumn 2001
(b-05) "The Workwoman’s Guide to ‘The Working Man’s Cap’" jointly with Jeffrey Stern, No. 15, Spring 2005
(b-06) "A Question of Chance: Correspondence between C. L. Dodgson and IsaacTodhunter," expected soon
(b-07) "The Brothers and Sisters of Charles L. Dodgson revealed in their letters: some previously unpublished correspondence" jointly with Francis R. Dodgson
(b-08) "Who was Baxter, the Oxford Printer?" expected soon
Articles published in the Newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan, Looking-Glass Letter, about my role as editor of the new unabridged edition of Lewis Carroll’s Diaries
(c–01) Diary Notes 1: Introduction, No. 87, January/February 2006
(c–02) Diary Notes 2: The Task Begins, No. 88, March/April 2006
(c–03) Diary Notes 3: The Footnotes, No. 89, May/June 2006
(c–04) Diary Notes 4: The Look of the Book, No.90, July/August 2006
(c–05) Diary Notes 5: Publication, No. 91, September/October 2006
(c–06) Diary Notes 6: Photography, No. 92, November/December 2006
(c–07) Diary Notes 7: Art, No. 93, January/February 2007
(c–08) Diary Notes 8: Victorian Theatre, No. 94, March/April 2007
(c–09) Diary Notes 9: Identification, No. 95, May/June 2007
(c–10) Diary Notes 10: Newspapers, No. 96, July/August 2007
(c–11) Diary Notes 11: Letters, No. 97, September/October 2007
(c–12) Diary Notes 12: Keeping Track, Spring 2008
Other articles:
(d-01) "John N. S. Davis"
Knight Letter, The Newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Number 16, September 1981
(d-02) "Lewis Carroll and the Bat"
Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, Vol. IX, No. 7, Issue 99, July 1982
(d-03) "Mathematics in Bedfordshire Schools" Bedfordshire Magazine: Vol. 21, No. 164, Spring 1988
(d-04) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 1832-1898
Programme for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland performed by the
Christ Church Cathedral School, July 1989
(d-05) "Lewis Carroll et le Nombre 42"
Europe Revue Litteraire Mensuelle, 1990
A revised version of two previous papers with additions, translated into French
(d-06) "A Selection of Classroom Activities to Introduce the TI-106"
Texas Instruments, June 1993
(d-07) "Mrs. Hargreaves Comes to the U.S.A."
Proceedings of the Second International Lewis Carroll Conference, LCSNA, 1994
(d-08) "Hereford Links with Lewis Carroll"
Country Quest Magazine, March 1995
(d-09) "Lewis Carroll’s World of Recreational Mathematics"
Notyet, The Journal of Hosei University, Tokyo, 1995
(d-10) "Lewis Carroll, Who Are You?"
Japanese University Journal, 1995
(d-11) "Collecting Lewis Carroll"
Essay contributed to the Book and Magazine Collector
Published in No. 142, issued January 1996
(d-12) "An MA for Alice"
Fast Forward, The University of Luton’s Magazine for Business and Education, Issue 5, Winter 1996/97
(d-13) "Lewis Carroll’s Photographic Register"
Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
Published in Issue No. 2, 1997
(d-14) Review: "Jack the Ripper ‘Light-hearted Friend’" by Richard Wallace
Ripperologist, Newsletter of the Cloak & Dagger Club, No. 11, June 1997
(d-15) "An Appreciation of Joe Brabant"
White Rabbit Tales, The Newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society of Canada
No. 6, Summer 1997
(d-16) "Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books: A Collector’s Guide"
Essay contributed to the Book and Magazine Collector
Published in No. 167, issued February 1998
(d-17) "Lewis Carroll’s Photography"
Essay contributed to the Grolier Club Catalogue of the Jon Lindseth Collection exhibited April/May 1998 at the Grolier Club, New York
(d-18) "Auctioning Alice"
Christie’s Magazine, December 1998.
(d-19) "Lewis Carroll’s Investments in Steamships"
Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LX, Number 3, Spring 1999
(d-20) Foreword to Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
Levenger Press, Florida, 1999
(d-21) Foreword to Feeding the Mind
Levenger Press, Florida, 1999
(d-22) Obituary for Canon Donald Eperson
The Times, 25 May 2001
(d-23) "C. L. Dodgson, Member of the Jury"
Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
Published in Issue No. 5, 2001
(d-24) Introduction to Lewis Carroll’s Nightmare by Victoria and Byron Sewell (Storkling Press, 2002) entitled "Did Lewis Carroll Like Boys?"
(d-25) "Charles Dodgson’s Photography"
The Lobster’s Voice, newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society of Australia
Volume 5, Issue 1, July 2002
(d-26) "Ten of my Favourite Lewis Carroll Photographs"
White Rabbit Tales, The Newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society of Canada
Number 24, 2002
(d-27) "Some Little Known Facts About Lewis Carroll"
Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan Published in Issue No. 6, 2002
(d-28) "Mr. Dodgson and the Royal Family," Part 1
Knight Letter, The Magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Volume II, Issue 2, Number 72, Winter 2003
(d-29) "Mr. Dodgson and the Royal Family," Part 2
Knight Letter, The Magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Volume II, Issue 3, Number 73, Spring 2004
(d-30) "Reader beware!"
Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
Published in Issue No. 7, 2004
(d-31) "Wine and Lewis Carroll" Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
Published in Issue No. 8, 2006
(d-32) "Edwin Dodgson, Priest in Charge at Tristan Da Cunha"
South Atlantic Chronicle, The Journal of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society. Vol. XXX, No. 2, April-July 2006
(d-33) "C. L. Dodgson Meets a Famous American Architect"
Knight Letter, The Magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Volume II, Issue 7, Number 77, Fall 2006
(d-34) "Charles L. Dodgson and the Theatre" Mischmasch, The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
Published in Issue No. 9, 2007
Consultancies and Research:
a. Trustee of the Lewis Carroll Birthplace Trust set up to promote Lewis Carroll and Daresbury. The site of the birthplace was purchased and made accessible to visitors in 1993
b. The National Geographic Society
Supported the writer and photographer of The Wonderland and Lewis Carroll
Published in the National Geographic Magazine, June 1991
c. Invited by the Japan Foundation to visit Tokyo and other major cities in Japan during October/November 1994 to promote the life and works of Lewis Carroll, and to help establish the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan
d. Gained a Library Research Fellowship at Princeton University, USA, to work on their Carroll Collections, August 1996.
e. The British Council Exhibition, Lewis Carroll: Photographer
Supported the curator of the exhibition, Roger Taylor
First exhibited at the Picture Gallery, Christ Church, January 1998
Supported the curator, Colin Ford
Supported the author, Morton N. Cohen
Supported the auctioneer in compiling the catalogue
Does not appear to have been issued
Other activities:
a. One of the main organisers of the First International Lewis Carroll Conference at Christ Church, Oxford, July 1989, attended by over 150 delegates from around the world
b. Organiser of the "Lewis Carroll in Wonderland" exhibition, which toured parts of the UK and Japan. The majority of the items came from my personal Lewis Carroll collection.
c. Member of the 1998 Committee which was set up to prepare for the anniversary celebrations commemorating the centenary of Carroll’s death in 1898.
d. Chairman of the organising committee for the Lewis Carroll Centenary Programme at Christ Church, Oxford (16-22 August 1998).
e. Lecturer for the Oxford Experience at Christ Church, Oxford, July 2001
"Lewis Carroll and Oxford" - a week of investigation
Repeated in July 2002, July 2003, August 2004, August 2005, July 2006, July 2007, July 2008
f. Lecturer for the Oxford Literary Festival in May 2003 – gave a talk entitled "Mystic, awful was the process" – sponsored by Princeton University Press
Television appearances:
24 May 1978 – Programme for schools about making film animations
31 January 1982 – only partially seen working a syllogism on a blackboard, but spent a day in Oxford recording scenes for the programme which were not used
17 December 1982
Westminster Abbey ceremony – Lewis Carroll plaque in Poet’s Corner
17 December 1982
Westminster Abbey ceremony – Lewis Carroll plaque in Poet’s Corner
9 February 1984 – live programme with link to San Francisco to discuss the new book suggesting that Queen Victoria wrote Alice
11 February 1984 – interview about Queen Victoria and Alice#
g. AUSTRIAN TELEVISION
5 March 1984 - Interview for programme on Lewis Carroll televised on 26 August 1984
h. PAMELA ARMSTRONG, BBC2
15 December 1986 – interview with me and John Wells about new Alice production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
i. HIGHWAY, ITV
14 May 1989 – I meet Sir Harry Secombe at Oxford in the Deanery Garden
j. CENTRAL TV NEWS, ITV MIDLANDS
July 1990 – I recorded a piece on the banks of the river Isis to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
August 1993 – recorded an interview for an Alice quiz programme
20 April 1994 – contribution to a documentary on Lewis Carroll called "Great Books – Alice in Wonderland" made by Cronkite Ward and Company – it has been shown many times around the world
July 1994 – made in Oxford with help from members of the Lewis Carroll Society
February 1995 – Edward in Wonderland – about my Carroll collection
o. OMNIBUS: BBC1
January 1998, "Curiouser and Curiouser: Lewis Carroll 1898-1998" – I was a consultant for the programme and provided most of the photo stills (recorded by Ken Morse in London)
p. FOR THE LOVE OF ALICE: CHANNEL 4
20 April 1998, repeated a few times – studio discussion about Alice with Anne Clark Amor, Brian Sibley, Charlie Lovett, Alan White, Graham Ovenden and me, made by World of Wonder, recorded in London in July 1997
2 June 2003 – a brief contribution on Carroll’s north country connections
4 July 2003 – Interactive TV , What Happened Today? Volume 8: "Lewis Carroll" – I recorded a contribution in the Upper Library, Christ Church
21 August 2003 – contribution to a programme about Alice auctions made by Tiger Aspect – my interview recorded in London
Together with a few other minor contributions and appearances over the years.
Radio performances and contributions:
One of the interviewees
BBC Radio Oxford, 2 July 1990
Interview with Humphrey Carpenter
BBC Radio 4, 27 July 1990
Interviewed by Mal Pope concerning visit by the LCS to Croft and discovery of the Cheshire Cat
BBC Radio Cymru, 8 July 1992
Interview by John Dunn concerning visit by the LCS to Croft and the discovery of the Cheshire Cat
BBC Radio 2, 6.45 p.m., 8 July 1992
Interviewed in my Luton home about collecting Lewis Carroll
BBC Radio Bedfordshire, 5 January 1995
Interview with John Warburton
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, 2.00 p.m., 31 August 1995
One of the interviewees
BBC Radio 3, 6 December 1995
One of the interviewees
BBC Radio Thames Valley, 25 May 1998
One of the interviewees
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 1998
One of the interviewees
BBC Radio 4, 18 December 2001
One of the interviewees
BBC Radio 4, 11.30 a.m.,19 December 2006