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IMAGES: Devil in the Wilderness

31st October 2023

Dear DITW listener,

Below you will find images of key figures featured in the podcast series, plus plenty of my dad. In fact I’ve created a bit of an archive here, for you AND me. Enjoy.

CW and SW

CW (middle) with sisters Ruth and Joan

 

Unhappy-looking CW

 

CW beach poser, late ’30s

 

CW with first wife Joan Darlington c.1939

 

With wife Joan and daughter Diana c.1941

 

On leave with Joan during WWII

 

 

Gelli, cottage near the village of Llanfrothen that CW moved into with Eleanor and Jeremy Brooks in 1953

 

Sue Russell, daughter-in-law of Bertrand Russell, CW’s lover 1954-59

 

Ty Cipar, isolated Snowdonian cottage, seven miles from the nearest village, where CW lived alone 1959-1961

 

John Earle (left) and Chris Oliver, Croesor valley c.1960

 

CW’s anonymous essay The Self-Inflicted Wound as it appeared in the Underdogs collection, published in 1961

 

The diaries…

 

1970: CW and my mother Tamara (TW) on their wedding day, celebrating with a cigarette apiece

 

CW and TW, late-70s

 

Fasten your shirt dad fs

 

SW and TW

 

TW, CW, SW

 

CW action shot, Pet Level beach, East Sussex, c.1982

 

L to R: Pauline Cobbett, Ifor Nottingham, Jeremy Brooks, Bill Nottingham, Cyril Cobbett, Eleanor Brooks, dinner party Harpenden c.1985 (still have the goblets)

 

CW + dead fish

 

SW with half-brother DW, 7th birthday (best photo evah)

 

SW and CW

 

CW relaxing menacingly at home in Harpenden c.1985

 

CW and SW watching Question of Sport (educated guess)

 

David Wordsworth, SW’s half-brother, Christmas 1987

 

Diana Wordsworth (1940-78). David’s sister, SW’s half-sister. Died in a car accident. Photo taken by Lord Snowdon, for whom she worked in the early 60s

 

CW’s daughter Paddy (1935-2022), SW’s half sister. Born out of wedlock and kept a secret during CW’s lifetime

 

SW and TW (t-shirt helpfully denoting who’s who)

 

 

SW, DW, CW

 

CW with Bill Nottingham c.1992

 

CW and SW with Chris Oliver, Mousehole c.1984

 

Llanrhaeadr party 1980s

 

CW and TW, Mavis and Geoffrey Nicholson, Llanrhaeadr c.1987

 

CW and SW

 

CW reporting on a county cricket match in Cheltenham, with TW

 

CW fly fisherman

 

Eleanor Brooks, bedrock of the podcast series, c.1987

 

Eleanor, 2007

 

Ifor and Bill Nottingham, 2007

 

CW’s sister, Sister Francis Ruth, by SW, Harpenden, 1991

 

CW by SW, Harpenden, 1991 (my photography phase)

School friend and voice of my father Chris Porter, 1991 (told you it was my photography phase)

 

SW, Cornwall 1992, two weeks prior to university

 

CW and TW, Llanrhaeadr 1998, two years after moving from Harpenden, and the same year as CW’s death. TW died in 2001

 

SW on location in Llanrhaeadr, summer 2021

 

 

ABOVE: Michael Frayn (left), Blake Morrison, SW (as featured in bonus episode 5)

 

SW, Paris 2024