Dennis Potter work. "The Confidence Course" script was liked by "Wednesday Play" script editor Roger Smith who then commissioned Potter to write what became the second Nigel Barton play for the new anthology series. "Alice" (also 1965), his next transmitted play, chronicled the relationship between Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his "nom de plume", Lewis Carroll, and his muse Alice Liddell. The play drew complaints from the descendants of Dodgson, and of Macmillan, the publisher, who objected to the way the relationship was depicted. George Baker played Dodgson. Potter's most highly regarded works from this period were the semi-autobiographical plays "Stand
Lewis Carroll his two sons were hardly more than babies. The older of these sons – yet another Charles Dodgson – was Carroll's father. He went to Westminster School and then to Christ Church, Oxford. He reverted to the other family tradition and took holy orders. He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career. Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1830 and became a country parson. Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn, the