Where the production was at its strongest was when Charlotte Conquest was able to her bring the familiar Creation magic out, for example with thold-fashioned puppetry that played out to Mr Tumnus’ song, or when Lucy and Susan ride on the back of a reincarnated Aslan. I found myself wanting more of these. It may have been hard to work in the acrobats of the Ring Jinee from last year but I can’t help/thinking that something like that would have made it even better.

Still, a very enjoyable production of a curious book. I still feel that, despite its faults I want to re-read them…

For me it was an hour celebrating the work of my favourite and most-lived authors. There were maps. From Tolkien  and Lewis to Pullman’s interpretation of Oxford – as Diana Wynne Jones (another author who  was featured) says, fantasy always starts with a map.

There were also mention of undated Arabian  amulet scrolls, the like of which  was the  inspiration for the scrolls in Sudan Cooper’s Over Sea Under Stone.

The fannish squee factor of this was nothing to my reaction  when I turned around and was confronted  by a plate. I recognize it immediately even touch I had never seen it before as The Owl  Service.  The  china with the pattern that could be flowers or birds depending on how you look at it…

…and there was, around the corner, another delight in the shape of replicas of the  buckles/signs that Susan Cooper’s husband made for her from her Dark Is Rising book.

There was more, of course. Lots more. And it was quite busy with  people enjoying it all, but I was so wrapped up in it and in awe of , what was my heaven that I scarcely noticed any of them. It’s on until the 27 October and I recommend that you all catch it is you can.