Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland on BBC4

[lauraxsynthesis]

Somehow I've never seen this, but it's on at 11.25pm this Wednesday 7 February.

Miller never skimped on slagging off critics and he was scathing about the negative feedback this got when first broadcast in 1966. Here's what he said he intended.

It looks awesome. Music by Ravi Shankar, a real cat, and this casting: Wilfrid Brambell (White Rabbit), Alan Bennett (Mouse), Finlay Currie (Dodo), Michael Redgrave (Caterpillar), Leo McKern (Duchess), Peter Cook (Mad Hatter), Michael Gough (March Hare), Wilfred Lawson (Dormouse), Alison Leggatt (Queen of Hearts), Peter Sellers (King of Hearts), John Gielgud (Mock Turtle)

BFI's notes

Can also be found on Youtube now.

[magister]

It's excellent. I caught the last 20 minutes of it in 1986, when BBC2 repeated it as part of a commemoration of 50 years of BBC TV and was utterly captivated. I finally saw the whole thing about 20 years later when the BFI brought out a dvd. Atmospheric, weird and quite brilliant.