D.J. Taylor describes the BBC Radio 4 programme “Alice in Teesside” (Arts, 14 November) as “an exercise in myth busting”. Unfortunately, Taylor instigates a number of myths of his own which most certainly deserve busting.First he refers to Lewis Carroll’s “home town of Croft on Tees, which straddles the Yorkshire-Northumberland border”. Croft is no town but an attractive, small village where Carroll spent happy boyhood years. Moreover the River Tees is the border, not with Northumberland, which is some 60 miles to the north, but with County Durham. As its winning of the County Cricket Championship has demonstrated in recent years, Durham, the Land of the Prince Bishops, remains very much alive and well.Taylor then tells us that the programme inclu