The Truth About Alice in Wonderland

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're well and truly going down a rabbit hole. To unpick the controversies surrounding the author of Alice in Wonderland, Kate is joined by author and Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Will Brooker.

Will introduces us to Charles Dodgson, pseudonym Lewis Carroll, and his life, relationships and photography. Will is a professor at Kingston University and author of 'Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture'.

This episode was edited by Tomos Delargy and produced by Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm your host, Kate Lister.
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0:59.1	Hello, my lovely betwixters. It's me, Kate Lester. You are listening to Betwixtor sheets.
1:05.1	But before we can go any further, I do have to tell you. This is an adult podcast,
1:08.7	Pokemon by adults, to other adults about adulty things and an adulty adult way you're covering a range of subjects and you should be an adult
1:12.3	too. Now, you know, I normally mess around with what we call the fair do's warning, because
1:17.0	fair dues, we did warn you. But this is actually quite a serious fair do's warning. This episode
1:23.1	is covering allegations of child abuse and indecent images of children.
1:28.4	So you might just not want to listen to that today.
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