Oxford Storypods

Bill Moulford - who plays many of the characters on our Alice in Wonderland audiobook, including the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat - is due to appear as Lewis Carroll at the Museum of Oxford.

He will describe how the Alice story came into being and read extracts from the book using his repertoire of character voices. Aimed at children up to 12 yrs of age, it should be hugely enjoyed by them and accompanying parents. The storytelling session will be followed by a puppet-making workshop. Tickets cost £2.50 per person.

Check Museum of Oxford for details of tickets and location or contact us if you have any queries.

Esther Browning of the Story Museum has asked Storypods to participate in Alice’s Day events in 2009.

The designated date next year is the Fourth of July which will – in most people’s minds – conjure up images of the American Stars and Stripes, roast turkey and apple pie. But did you know that July 4 is significant in Carrollian history?

It was on July 4 1862 that Charles Dodgson and his friend Robinson Duckworth took the three Liddell sisters – Lorina, Alice and Edith - out in a boat. To keep the girls amused, Lewis began weaving a story around Alice, inventing as he went along. Charles Dodgson – better known to us as Lewis Carroll – recorded the event thus:

"Many a day had we rowed together on that quiet stream and many a fairy tale had been extemporised for their benefit – whether it were at times when the writer was ‘in the vein’ and fancies unsought came crowding thick upon him, or at times when the jaded Muse was goaded into action and plodded meekly on, more because she had to say something than that she had something to say – yet none of these many tales got written down: they lived and died, like summer midges, each in its own golden afternoon until there came a day when, as it chanced, one of my little listeners petitioned that the tale might be written out for her. That was many a year ago, but I distinctly remember how without the least idea what was to happen afterwards. In writing it out, I added many fresh ideas which seemed to grow of themselves upon the original stock; and many more added themselves when, years. afterwards, I wrote it all over again for publication…"

It is obviously too early to give any details about events planned for next year's Alice's Day, but it will be a full and exciting programme.