Lewis Carroll (II)

Radio Times review

The English language receives a shakedown as Milton Jones exercises his word play to left-field extremes that make Lewis Carroll seem tame. Sometimes it is a simple description - like calling a church "a huge stone refrigerator" - that sets his mind wandering. But when he starts playing with the sound and meaning of words, the fun really starts.

In this opening episode he decides to launch a wedding business, but for Jones a groom is someone who works with horses, not a husband-to-be. The comic and dramatic support from Tom Goodman-Hill, as Milton's long-suffering flatmate, is invaluable and there are some particularly fine moments in a running theme about the bride looking like Robert De Niro. Their attempts to work De Niro film titles into every conversation with her are superb.

Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 19th February 2014

The Sykes show had a fine cast, music and production and a quite exceptional script by Sykes himself with a steady, strong note of Lewis Carroll logic about it.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 9th June 1977