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
Partners in Crime (UK TV series) Partners in Crime (UK TV series) Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015. The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. The first three episodes are an adaptation of the 1922 novel "The Secret Adversary", written by Zinnie Harris, and the last three episodes are of the 1941 novel "N or M?", by Claire Wilson. The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC. The action is updated from the 1922 and 1941 settings of the novels to