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