Daily Telegraph 221, 270, 314, 318, 364, 365, 366
Darling Buds of May, The 292, 362
Dave Allen At Large 142, 361
Davies, Andrew 294
Davies, Jack 66
Davies, John Howard 58, 65–6, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 79, 83, 84–5, 86, 89–90, 190, 198, 289, 350, 351, 357, 362
Day Today, The 296
Decisions, Decisions 67
Delafons, John 54
Deliverance 81
Demolition Man 290
Dene, Zulema 174, 332
Denmark 259
Department of Administrative Affairs 49, 59, 90, 100, 111, 118, 121, 150–1
Department of Health 132, 252, 256, 361
Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, The 40–1, 167, 348, 367
Diary of a Nobody, The 118–19, 353
Dickens, Charles 10, 342
Dickman, Harry 304
Die Kinder 293
Disraeli, Benjamin 217, 224, 357, 358
Dixon of Dock Green 71
Dobbs, Michael 294
Doctor in Charge 30–1
Doctor at Large 30, 347
Doctor at Sea 30
Doctor in the House 30
Doctor on the Go 30
Doctor WHO 224, 306, 363
Donoughue, Bernard 224, 329–30
becomes advisor to Jay and Lynn 45, 46
becomes junior Minister in Labour Government 298
discusses scripts 64, 132, 140–1, 229, 306–7
ideas for stories 189, 218, 237–8
regular meetings 45, 46, 140, 222
views impact of sitcom on new Ministers 298–9
whisky episode 189
Double Dealer, The 287
Douglas-Home, Alec 218, 346, 358, 367
Douglas-Home, William 9
Down Your Way 226, 358
Driver, Harry 6
Dyer, Charles 195
Eartha Kitt Show, The 72
Ed Sullivan Show 29
Eddington, Paul 66–7, 78–9, 81, 83, 84, 88, 90, 91, 135, 136, 141, 168, 169, 195, 198, 199, 200–4, 205, 219, 225–6, 229, 293, 296, 305–6, 322
accepts role 68–9
death 288–9, 292, 293, 303
doubts about the sitcom 67–8
frustration with BAFTA awards 196, 259–60, 284
illnesses of 74, 230–1, 261, 284, 287, 288–9
pacifism of 80
politics of 80
popularity abroad 259–60, 287
Quaker background 80
receives CBE 260
relationship with Fowlds 83, 204
relationship with Hawthorne 76, 78, 79, 82, 135, 136, 137, 158, 200–3, 204, 259–60, 289
Eddington, Tricia 288, 362
Eddowes, Michael 22
EEC 2, 109, 122, 151, 156, 157, 206, 262, 295
Elizabeth R 286
English Constitution, The (Bagehot) 39, 341, 343, 352, 357, 365, 367
Esmonde, John 228
Equity 287
Europe 4, 109, 116–17, 122, 123, 144, 150–7, 167, 206, 212, 221, 233, 256, 262, 295, 298, 309, 310, 317, 320, 359
European Commission 151–2, 212, 256
Evans, Timothy 21–2, 23, 24, 344
Evening Standard 201, 291, 351, 368
Ever-Decreasing Circles 227
Eyre, Richard 27, 32
Face-to-Face 289
Fairbairn, Sir Nicholas 258, 361
Falcon Crest 170
Falklands War 220, 241–2
Falkender, Marcia 44, 45, 46, 64, 128, 132, 133–4, 140, 222, 229, 238, 360
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The 306
Fawlty Towers 6, 32, 35, 50, 60, 65–6, 69, 349, 350, 363, 368
Feldman, Marty 85–6, 351
Feydeau, Georges 198
Fiddick, Peter 108, 352
Fiddler on the Roof 29
Field, Frank 110
Fierce Creatures 86
Firm Friends 293
Fitzwiliam, Neil 72, 74, 198, 331, 332
folle journée, La 50
Footlights Society 26–7, 29, 30, 32, 198, 346, 366
Foreign Civil Service 46–7
Foreign Office 12, 100, 107, 117, 126, 127, 153, 180, 181, 186, 188, 242–4, 245, 246
Forrest Gump 291
Forty Years On 195
Foster, Dudley 13
Four Weddings and a Funeral 313
Fowlds, Derek 88, 90, 135, 194, 195, 198, 199, 305, 318, 319
accepts role 71
first hears of YM 70–1
reflections on show 285, 292, 329
rehearsing 76, 78, 79, 82–3, 136, 141, 168, 169, 229
relationship with Eddington 83, 136, 137, 168, 204, 259, 260
relationship with Hawthorne 136, 137, 204
Fox, George 80, 350
Free to Choose 138, 354
Friedman, Milton 138, 172, 277, 354, 368
Frost Report, The 32
Funny Side of Christmas, The 183–4, 333
Gaitskell, Hugh 23
Galbraith, Tam 24, 344–5
Galton, Ray 6, 52, 60, 303, 304
Garden, Graeme 27, 30, 332
General Elections 5, 23, 46, 87–9, 127, 190, 220, 259, 299, 313, 346, 350, 353, 356, 358
George and Mildred 57, 78
Gielgud Theatre 313
Gilbert, James 58, 349
Gilliat, Sidney 9
Gillray, James 8, 83
Gilmour, Ian 24, 344
Going Straight 85
G.O.L.D. 294, 315, 321, 337, 357, 363
Goldie, Grace Wyndham 28, 346, 369
Good Life, The 6, 50, 65, 66, 67, 79, 88, 99, 288, 349
Gooderson, David 27
Goodies, The 26–7, 65
Goodman, Arnold 64
Goodman, Henry 313, 314, 315, 318, 337
Gordon, Richard 30
Goucher, Mark 304
Gran, Maurice 294
Granita 299, 363–4
Grant, Bob 75
Gray, Simon 66
Green Book 7, 342
Green Julia 29
Greene, Graham 80, 351
Greene, Hugh Carleton 6, 351, 368
Grey, Lord 241
Griffiths, Trevor 32
Guardian, The 82, 108, 270, 314, 319, 347, 348, 352, 355, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 364, 365, 366
Gummer, John Selwyn 25
Guyler, Derek 13
Gwenlan, Gareth 190, 315, 316, 337
Hague, William 299, 365
Haig, David 313, 315, 317–18, 322, 337
Hain, Peter 298, 363
Haines, Joe 227, 353, 360, 368
Half a Sixpence 72
Hall, Peter 287, 288, 362
Hall, Roger 88
Hampstead Garden Suburb 60
Handley, Tommy 11
Hankey, Sir Maurice 219, 358
Hanks, Tom 291
Hansard 91, 108, 341, 344, 345, 352, 355, 361, 363
Hancock’s Half Hour 49–50, 60
Hapgood 290
Harlequinade 287
Harris, Max 83
Haselden, William 10, 342
Hastings, Macdonald 28
Hatch, David 27
Hattersley, Roy 109–10, 126, 352, 353, 366
Hawdon, Robin 195
Hawke, Bob 259
Hawthorne, Nigel 33, 66–7, 136–7, 168, 183, 198, 199, 205, 219, 226, 229, 289–91, 293, 296, 305, 306, 318
background of 81
BAFTA awards 183, 196, 250, 260, 284
death 292, 303
doubts about the sitcom 67–8, 69
politics of 81–2
privacy and 135–6, 195, 290–1
receives CBE 292
receives KBE 292
relationship with Eddington 76, 78, 79, 82, 135, 136, 137, 158, 200–3, 204, 259–60, 289
relationship with Fowlds 78, 135, 137, 204
Hayek, Friedrich 137–8, 203, 354, 368
Hayhoe, Barney 130
Hazlehurst, Ronnie 84, 90, 316, 331, 334,
337, 351, 352
Heartbeat 293
Heald, Patricia 70
Heald, Tony 70
Healey, Denis 258, 361
Health Act (2009) 256
Heath, Edward 81, 138, 261, 277, 346, 362
Heber-Percy, Sue 27
Henderson, John Scott 22
Hendra, Tony 27
Henry VI 288
Herzog, Chaim 259
Heseltine, Michael 235, 359–60
Hewitt, Patricia 191–3, 357
Hi-de-Hi! 6, 79, 99, 171
Hitchcock, Alfred 12
Hobbes, Thomas 15, 343, 368
Hoddinott, Diana 71, 74, 76, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336
Hogarth, William 8
Hoggart, Simon 227–8, 359, 368
Hollis, Sir Roger 248, 360
Holloway Prison 70
Hollywood Reporter 314, 364
Home 288–9
Home Civil Service 46–7, 132, 236, 348
Horsfield, Debbie 287
Hough, Flick 27
House of Cards 294
Householder’s Guide to Community Defence against Bureaucratic Aggression, The 32, 366
How to Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen’s Guide to Beating Officialdom 293, 366
Howerd, Frankie 15, 343, 368
Howard, Michael 25
Hunt, Sir John 237–8, 268
Hurd, Douglas 25
Hyde-White, Wilfred 13
Iannucci, Armando 296, 297, 330, 363, 365, 366
Ibsen, Henrik 195
Idle, Eric 26, 27, 286
If It Moves, File It 13, 72
In Sickness and in Health 303
Independent, The 318
India 189, 295
Ingham, Bernard 144, 199, 201, 204, 227–8, 247, 249, 292, 357, 358, 359, 360
Inspector Morse 292, 362
International Shakespeare Globe Centre 287
Israel 242, 259
It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum 6
It’s All Right, It’s Only a Customer 34
ITV 13, 30, 31, 48, 57, 75, 85, 98, 127, 142, 170–1, 195, 292–3, 303, 315, 347, 348, 362, 363, 364, 365
Jackson, Michael 197
James, Clive 198
Janner, Greville 25
Jay, Sir Antony 23, 24, 71, 76, 89
academic background 21, 25–7
idea for YM 35–6, 37–48
receives KBE 286
Video Arts 33–4, 35, 48–9, 60, 61, 67, 77, 138, 163, 167, 194, 197, 224, 286
works for BBC 27–9, 32–3
works on new YPM play 304, 305, 306–7, 308, 309, 312–13, 314
works on new YPM TV series 315, 318, 320
writing partnership with Lynn 33–330 passim
Jay, Lady Rosemary 285–6
Jeeves 50, 51–2, 143, 212, 311, 318, 348
Jenkins, Roy 24, 33, 55, 344
Ji, Mantriji 295
Jim’ll Fix It 199
Jones, Brian 84, 225
Jones, Terry 30, 346
Joseph, Sir Keith 110, 277, 341
Joyce, Emily 313, 315
Judah, Cynthia 28
Jumpers 230
Kant, Immanuel 17, 180–1, 343, 368
Kaufman, Gerald 128, 353, 368
Kennedy, Ludovic 22, 333, 336
Kennedy Martin, Troy 13
Key, Robert 258, 361
King, Brian 26, 346
King Lear 290
Kingswood School 34
Kinnock, Neil 191, 357
Kripalani, Jayant 295
La Frenais, Ian 60, 303
Labour Party 39, 65, 80, 88, 127–8, 132, 191, 227, 344, 351–2, 358, 360
Lady Vanishes, The 12
Lamont, Norman 25
Landis, John 197
Langport, Somerset 286, 305
Larbey, Bob 228
Lario, Veronica 309
Larkin, Chris 315, 318, 337
Launder, Frank 9
Lavender, Ian 174, 176–7, 333
Lawson, Nigel 206, 274, 357, 365
Layton, George 30, 31–2, 75, 347
Le Mesurier, John 11
Lean, David 66
Leavis, F.R. 25
Left Right and Centre 9
Let There Be Love 195
Letts, Quentin 314, 364
Li Keqiang 293
Liberal Party 9, 65, 87, 89, 222, 340, 351–2
Likely Lads, The 50, 60, 303, 349
Lilley, Peter 25
Listener, The 109, 352, 366, 367, 369
Little Dorritt 10, 342
Liver Birds, The 85, 304
Lloyd George, David 217
Locke, John 16, 343
London Assurance 287
London School of Economics 44, 45, 56
Loot 197
Lords, House of 4, 24, 36, 44, 122, 144, 341, 344, 346, 352
Lotterby, Sydney 85–6, 91, 137, 141, 142, 144, 168, 169, 196, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 261, 329, 331, 332, 334, 335, 336, 351, 354, 365
Louis-Dreyfus, Julia 297
Love Thy Neighbour 6
Lovers Dancing 195
Low, David 8
Lushington, Mark 27
Lynn, Jonathan 23, 24
academic background 21, 25–7
Cambridge Circus 29
Cambridge Theatre Company 32–3
movies of 197
My Brother’s Keeper 31–2
works on new YPM play 304, 305, 306–7, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312–13, 314
works on new YPM TV series 315, 316, 318
writing partnership with Antony Jay 33–330 passim
writing partnership with George Layton 30–1
Lynn, Rita 196
Machiavelli, Niccolò 18, 32, 93, 149, 156, 241, 344, 346, 352, 354, 360, 366, 368
Maclean, Donald 134, 247
Macmillan, Harold 1, 9, 15, 24, 29, 138, 221, 297, 341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 361, 367, 368
Madness of George III 290
Madness of King George, The 290
Magdalene College, Cambridge 25, 286
Magnusson, Magnus 28
Maigret 71
Mains Sales, Les 17, 343
Major, John 298, 318, 363
Mamet, David 290
Man Alive 48, 348
Man on Your Conscience 22
Management and Machiavelli 32, 346, 366
Marks, Laurence 294
Marx, Groucho 129
Mastermind 132
Matrix, The 297
Mayall, Rik 294, 304
McCabe, Richard 314
McKellen, Ian 290
McNally, Tom 189
Men from the Ministry, The 13, 97, 342, 343, 350, 352, 354
Michelmore, Cliff 28
Middle Age Spread 88, 91
Mill, John Stuart 17, 171, 344, 365
Milne, Alasdair 28, 353
Mind Your Language 85
Molière 195, 287
Monahan, Mark 318, 365
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 30, 65, 224, 355, 363, 369
Mortimer, John 198
Morton of Shuna, Lord 258, 361
Mozart, W. A. 50, 288
Mullard, Arthur 75
Murder at Oil Drum Lane 304
Murdoch, Richard 13
My Brother’s Keeper 31–2
My Cousin Vinny 286
Nairne, Patrick 132
National Theatre 197–8, 275, 313
National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association 199, 357
Netherlands 295
Nettleton, John 72, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336
New Statesman, The 294, 304, 341, 348, 364, 366, 367, 369
Newley, Anthony 83, 98
Newman, Nanette 195
NHS 31, 143, 161–2, 163, 164, 221, 252, 253, 254, 276, 355
Nichols, Peter 66
Nicholson, William 290
Nightingale, Jake 304
Nighy, Bill 198
Nimmo, Derek 71
&n
bsp; No Man’s Land 287–8
Norman, Monty 198
Norman Conquests, The 199
Norton, Deborah 229, 334, 335, 336
Norway 259, 263
Now and Then 288
Nozze Di Figaro, Le 50
Number 10 Policy Unit 45, 189
Nuns on the Run 164, 286
Observer 22, 103, 142, 284, 354, 358, 359, 361, 362
Oddie, Bill 27, 29, 30
‘Office of Twerps, The’ 11
Old Mother Riley, MP 9
Oliver Twist 66
On the Buses 30, 75, 83
On the Hour 296
Only Fools and Horses 90, 303, 363
Only When I laugh 6
Open All Hours 83, 85, 227
Orton, Joe 197
Orwell, George 16, 325, 343, 365, 369
Osborne, George 298, 363
Otherwise Engaged 66
Oxbridge 34, 56, 311
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, The 286
Oxford Digital Enterprises 294
Oxford, University of 25, 30, 56, 127, 145, 147, 207, 245, 246, 282, 297
Palin, Michael 30, 355
Palmer, Geoffrey 86, 351
Palmer, Tony 30
Panorama 89, 98
Parfitt, Judy 174, 332
Paris Theatre 198
Parker, Cecil 11, 66
Parkinson, Cecil 25, 308
Parliament 8, 9, 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 40, 42, 48, 97, 102, 116, 167, 215, 217, 250, 256, 308, 318, 330, 345
Passport to Pimlico 12
Paine, Thomas 1, 35, 341, 350
Pakistan 189, 295
Peer Gynt 195
Peerage Act (1963) 24, 346
Pembroke College, Cambridge 25–7, 286
Pericles 15
Perry, Jimmy 50, 60, 69
Perth, The Earl of 258, 361
Pettifer, Julian 28
Philby, Kim 134, 247
Pinter, Harold 287
Plays and Players 29
Polsby, Nelson 44–5, 46, 140, 348, 367, 369
Porridge 6, 50, 83, 85
Portillo, Michael 298, 363
Portugal 295
Poulson, John 185–6
Powell, Vince 6
Power and the Glory, The 80, 351
Prior, Jim 55, 81, 351
Privates on Parade 66
Profumo, John 24, 308, 345
Pryce, Jonathan 291
Public Accounts Committee 101, 163, 355
public choice theory 138, 147, 171, 274, 367
‘Public Money and the Public Man, The’ 10, 342
Putney Hospital 164, 355
Pym, Sir Francis 221, 358–9
Radford, Basil 12
Radio Times 97, 142, 232, 347, 348, 351, 352, 366, 367
Rag Trade, The 303
Rattigan, Terence 195, 287, 290
Razak, Najib 300
Reagan, Ronald 17, 360
Redgrave Theatre, Farnham 195
Redhead, Brian 28
Rees, Merlyn 65, 349
Reggie Perrin 306
Rhodesia 129, 181, 356
Richard III 290, 313
Richardson, Ian 294
Ridley, Nicholas 223, 358
Riff Raff Element, The 287
Rising Damp 6, 50
Robertson, Fyfe 28
Robertson, John Home 258, 361