University of Oxford Botanic Garden Middle-earth. In the Evelyn Waugh novel "Brideshead Revisited", Lord Sebastian Flyte takes Charles Ryder "to see the ivy" soon after they first meet. As he says, "Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn! There's a beautiful arch there and more different kinds of ivy than I knew existed. I don't know where I should be without the Botanical gardens" (Chapter One). In Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels "His Dark Materials", a bench in the back of the garden is one of the locations/objects that stand parallel in the two different worlds that the protagonists, Lyra Belacqua and Will
Sebastian Baczkiewicz In 2004, he wrote half of a six-part series for BBC Radio 4 using characters from Arthurian legend. In 2012, his radio drama "Pilgrim" was nominated for the Prix Italia and awarded silver at the Prix Europa. Sebastian Baczkiewicz Sebastian Baczkiewicz (born 1962, Hammersmith, London) is an English writer. Baczkiewicz trained as an actor at The Drama Centre in London. He was the BBC's first writer in residence in 2000. Author of a number of episodes of "Holby City", Baczkiewicz has written a range of plays for BBC Radio including adaptations of "Les Miserables" and "The Count of Monte Cristo"