Through the Looking-Glass Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company adapted through the Looking-Glass in act 2. The 1985 two-part TV musical "Alice in Wonderland", produced by Irwin Allen, covers both books; Alice was played by Natalie Gregory. In this adaptation, the Jabberwock materialises into reality after Alice reads "Jabberwocky", and pursues her through the second half of the musical. The 1999 made-for-TV Hallmark/NBC film "Alice in Wonderland", with Tina Majorino as Alice, merges elements from "Through the Looking Glass" including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the chess theme including
Ian Hislop "Gush", a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer. With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom "My Dad's the Prime Minister" and in the early nineties for the Dawn French vehicle "Murder Most Horrid". Hislop and Newman wrote the Radio 4 series "The News at Bedtime", a satire on fairy tales which aired over the 2009 Christmas season. The series starred Jack Dee as 'John Tweedledum' and Peter Capaldi as 'Jim Tweedledee'; the two present the "news of the day" in the world of fairy tales, while arguing with each other as