Rosalie Crutchley

Written by Rose Tremain

Camilla is a mid-thirties woman whose world is collapsing around her, with an unexciting marriage, a daughter with whom she cannot communicate, and a neurotic mother facing a shoplifting charge.

Just when she feels she cannot cope any longer, a little bit of her past catches up with her again.

Liam is her former lover, and an English lecturer at college. He sends her a letter and so begins a series of events which help her to begin to rebuild her life and create some hope for her future.Read More »

Transmitted on 13th October 1965 at 9.05 p.m. on BBC 1 as part of the Wednesday Play series. Repeated on 6th July 1966 on BBC1

The play is a fictionalised account of the relationship between Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell. It cleverly integrates events, conversations and chance remarks into the narrative which later become part of the “Alice” books but more than anything it’s a touching story of unrequited love where frustration and innocence co-exist but never quite resolve their conflict. It was later remade as the film ‘Dreamchild’.Read More »