Love a bit of Drag! ;)
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Life on Earth with David Attenborough – is this the greatest TV show ever made? I think so! Here’s my list of the all-time 50 most influential television series in today’s Daily Mail, including Downton Abbey, Dr Who and Fawlty Towers… but what have I missed?
Posted 5 years ago
Rather excited…
I’m interviewing Michael Palin, as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas, next month. We’ll be talking about diaries… he’s published two volumes of extracts from his, and wonderfully entertaining they are.
Posted 5 years ago
It’s Kenneth Williams’s birthday today – he’d be 87. A performing genius – and a whizz on the typewriter too. Friends used to tell him he’d make someone a marvellous secretary.
Photo from the Radio Times.
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Peter Cook meets the Burtons, during the US tour of Beyond The Fringe, c. 1962. Doesn’t Richard look pleased?
(Source: fizzycolabottle)
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Don’t Panic!! Here’s my tribute in today’s Daily Mail to Clive Dunn, who played Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army.
Posted 6 years ago
Fly Me To The Moon is the fanzine of Middlesbrough FC, and Mustapha Carayol is a nippy winger.
Kenneth Williams enjoyed playing football, when he was a boy. His nose was broken during a game when he joined the Army in 1944 – that’s how he got his distinctive nostril flare.
My name is Christopher Stevens. I'm a journalist and author, living in Bristol, England.
This is assorted bric-a-brac connected to my celebration and anthology of Galton & Simpson, THE MASTERS OF SITCOM, and my authorised biography of the wonderful Kenneth Williams,
BORN BRILLIANT
