Alice Through the Looking Glass with Chris Riddell and readings by Samuel West
Channel: British Library
Date: 2021-08-06

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, appeared 150 years ago this year. Lewis Carroll’s fantastical book takes Alice off through the looking-glass on a second adventure, to a place even stranger than the Wonderland of her first.

Following on from his exquisite edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the brilliant illustrator Chris Riddell, has now brought Through the Looking Glass – and more of Lewis Carroll’s iconic characters – to vibrant, colourful life.

Join Chris as he live-illustrates this masterpiece of nonsense and as Sam West, one of the finest readers of verse, reads classic scenes and poems, including Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ and ‘Jabberwocky’.

Suitable for those aged 8 and above.

Chris Riddell is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His work for Macmillan also includes the bestselling Ottoline books and The Emperor of Absurdia. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work and was the UK Children's Laureate from 2015 to 2017.

Samuel West has had an extensive career on stage and screen and is currently working on the second series of Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small in which he plays Siegfried Farnon His films include Reunion (1989), Howards End (1992) Persuasion (1995), Notting Hill (1999) Van Helsing (2004) and Hyde Park on the Hudson (2012). His daily Pandemic Poems recordings were a huge success during lockdown