Barry Cryer has been in showbusiness for 40 years, as a performer and a behind-the-scenes craftsman. Comic material and showbiz anecdotes combine in this volume, to tell the story of his life at the forefront of British comedy.
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...