Sublime

The purpose of all the bustling was to get me into a waiting car, which was to take me to the BBC TV Centre to be interviewed on Late Night Line-Up, an arts-oriented discussion programme that ran for many years during the 60s. I was to be questioned by Michael Dean, who introduced me by reference to that night’s Frost Report and went on to ask me a

As for the rest of us, our anxieties were almost entirely script-related and arose because our pattern of rehearsal was as follows: First day: Read-through. Everything looks fine, so afterwards write for next week’s show. Second day: Rehearsal. On second thoughts, two sketches feel a bit weak, so the evening is spent rewriting them. One of them now

don’t ask yourself who is right. Ask which idea is better.

Now, the man who gives himself away does the last act of generosity; he is like a martyr, a lover, or a monk. But he is also almost certainly what we commonly call a fool.