![]() ![]() My biography of the Carry On star Kenneth Williams, BORN BRILLIANT, was authorised by his estate, and I was lucky enough to be entrusted with all his diaries and his archive of letters, more than five million words of comedy history.īORN BRILLIANT was serialised as a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and shortlisted for a Sherry, the Sheridan Morley Theatre Biography Prize. My proudest moments include interviewing Ray and Alan on stage at the National Theatre on London's South Bank, and compering I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue at the Old Vic theatre in Bristol, with Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Colin Sell. I am the official biographer of Carry On star Kenneth Williams, and of comedy geniuses Ray Galton & Alan Simpson. ![]() I am also a passionate fan of classic British comedy. You will never think the same way about our ordinary, everyday words. It unravels the DNA of our language, to show how prehistoric syllables thousands of years old are the source of everything we say and write. WRITTEN IN STONE traces the Stone Age words that are the basis of English. I write regularly for the main features pages of the paper, as well as for the Mail's Weekend magazine. ![]() ![]() Journalist and author - I am the TV critic of the Daily Mail, with a column five days a week to review the previous night's television. ![]()
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