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
Shaun Ryder Television and writer Danny Brocklehurst has been enlisted to write the screenplay. Ryder was a contestant on the tenth series of ITV's reality game show "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" in 2010, where he finished second behind Stacey Solomon. In January 2011, Ryder appeared on the first series of the ITV programme "That Sunday Night Show", and again on the second series in September 2011. He collaborated with fellow "I'm a Celebrity" contestant Stacey Solomon at the 2011 National Television Awards. In 2013, Ryder hosted the television show "Shaun Ryder on UFOs" on "The History Channel UK". Ryder