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
Charles Denton (television and film producer) later controller of programming. Not long after joining ATV he began the "Pilger" series which ran for five series between 1974 and 1977. John Pilger recalled: ""Pilger" was Charles' idea ... It was he who encouraged me to stand in front of the camera and say 'I'." Denton came under extreme political and diplomatic pressure from both the British and Saudi governments both before and after ATV part-financed and produced the drama-documentary "Death of a Princess" shown on 9 April 1980. The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia was requested to leave the country, and remained away from his post for