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
Skeffington Lutwidge The expedition sailed up to and around Spitsbergen, managing to reach within ten degrees of the North Pole, but was prevented from travelling further north by thick sea ice, and returned to Britain in September. Sailing with the "Carcass" was a young Horatio Nelson, whose position as a midshipman on the expedition had been arranged by his uncle, Maurice Suckling. Suckling and Lutwidge knew each other well, Lutwidge having served under Suckling on a number of occasions, including time spent acting against privateers in 1771. Nelson was given the role of coxswain of Lutwidge's gig. Nelson managed to obtain command