Before embarking on our Alice season, we thought a little context on the books, the play, and the biography of the major players would be relevant (for us as well as you, dear listener). So we welcome Carrolian scholar Justine Houyaux to talk about the writing of Charles Dodgeson, his friendship with Alice Liddell, and the adaptation by Robert Wilson, Paul Schmidt, Kathleen Brennan and... who's the other guy?

Many thanks to Hannah McGregor and Amanda Lastoria for helping set up this episode.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: There's Only Alice, The Alice Demos, Tom Waits (1992 - unreleased) Untitled (Barcarolle), The Alice Demos, Tom Waits (1992 - unreleased)

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