Mad Hatter ... a tea party and a girl called Alice ...... on the wireless

I have to confess that I have never read Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland.

Alice trying to play croquet with a Flamingo

It never appealed to me when I was growing up and I still haven't caught up with it.

So, this week's edition of In Our Time might just make me go and visit the book.

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. 

It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistcoat with pocket watch, down a rabbit hole that becomes a well and into wonderland. 

There she meets the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Mock Turtle and more, all the while growing smaller and larger, finally outgrowing everyone at the trial of Who Stole the Tarts from the Queen of Hearts and exclaiming 'Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!'

With Franziska Kohlt, Leverhulme Research Fellow in the History of Science at the University of Leeds and the Inaugural Carrollian Fellow of the University of Southern California, Kiera Vaclavik, Professor of Children’s Literature and Childhood Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature at Magdalen College, University of Oxford

Producer: Simon Tillotson"

Picture; Alice trying to play croquet with a Flamingo, by John Tenniel, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865

*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w7f9