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
Belle and Sebastian (French TV series) Belle and Sebastian (French TV series) Belle and Sebastian is a TV children's serial based on the novel "Belle et Sébastien" by Cécile Aubry. It is about a young boy Sebastian and a (Pyrenees Mountain dog) Belle set in the French alps and their adventures as they grow together. It was filmed as a live action show in black-and-white in France under its original name in 1965. In 1967 it was dubbed and the title was anglicised. It first appeared in the UK on BBC1 on Monday afternoons, running from 2 October 1967 to 1 January 1968. Shown in the