The Fry Chronicles (62 page)

Poliakoff, Stephen:
City Sugar
,
134

Pols, Bob,
92

Pope-Hennessy, James,
49

Popplewell, Oliver,
32

Posner, Geoff,
396

Potter, Dennis,
268
;
The Singing Detective
,
353

Powell, Enoch,
102

Praed, Michael,
258

Prince, Hal,
300

Prince, Peter,
353

Pringle, Derek,
146

Private Function, A
(film),
348

Producers, The
(Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan; play and stage musical),
423

Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire,
27
,
30
,
360

Puttnam, Sir David (
later
Baron),
147–8
,
234
,
298

QI
(TV programme): publicity,
55
; taping,
63

Queen’s Head (bar), Chelsea,
221

Queen’s Theatre, London,
340
,
344
,
346

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur,
318

Quinton, Anthony, Baron,
335

Rand, Ayn:
Atlas Shrugged
,
303–4

Rashbrook, Stephen,
336

Rattigan, Sir Terence,
337

Ravens, Jan,
144
,
191

Reagan, Ronald,
188
,
201

Redgrave, Sir Michael,
95
,
108
,
183

Redmond, Siobhan,
211
,
239
,
241

Reeves, Vic,
296

Regent Square, Bloomsbury,
340

Reitel, Enn,
291
,
415

Rice, Matthew,
337–8
,
357

Rice, Peter,
337

Rich, Frank,
419
,
422–3

Richard, Sir Cliff,
324

Richardson, Charles,
394

Richardson, Christopher,
130
,
196

Richardson, Miranda,
382
,
384

Richardson, Peter,
214

Ridley, Nicholas, Bishop of London,
70

Rising Damp
(TV sitcom),
207

Roberts, Michael,
308
,
310

Robinson, Robert,
139

Robinson, Tony,
382
,
384

Rolfe, Frederick
see
Corvo, Baron

Rose, Arthur,
268

Rosen, Ralph,
423

Rosengard, Peter,
208

Ross, Jonathan,
6

Ross, Sandy,
210–11
,
213
,
229
,
241

Rossiter, Leonard,
346

Rumney, Peter,
122
,
126

Russell, Bertrand,
69
,
185
,
335

Rylands, George (‘Dadie’),
95

Sachs, Andrew,
332

Sahlins, Bernie,
240–1

Sahlins, Marshall,
240

St Mark’s Rise, Dalston,
365

Sands, Bobby,
201

Sarchet, Tony,
331

Sassoon, Siegfried,
176

Sastry, Sunetra (Mrs Rowan Atkinson),
387–8

Saturday Live
(TV programme),
391
,
394–7
,
402
,
409

Saturday Night Live
(TV programme),
240

Saunders, Jennifer,
209
,
214
,
296
,
364

Savident, John,
297

Sax, Geoffrey,
254

Sayle, Alexei,
205–7
,
209
,
239

Sayle, Linda,
206

Scargill, Arthur,
201

Schlesinger, John,
401

Schlesinger, Paul,
189

Scofield, Paul,
164

Scotsman, The
(newspaper),
127
,
155–6

Scott, Ridley,
234

Scott, Tony,
234

Scott’s Porage Oats,
19

Sessions, John,
44
,
46
,
49
,
252

Sewell, Brian,
319
,
332

sex: and smoking,
24–5

Shakespeare, William,
85–6
,
94
;
All’s Well That Ends Well
,
149
;
Love’s Labour’s Lost
,
188–9
,
282
;
Macbeth
,
135–6
;
The Tempest
,
113–16
,
136
,
160

Shand, Neil,
333

Shaw, George Bernard,
57

Shearer, Paul: in
Alfresco
,
20
; in Footlights revue,
172
,
190
,
192
; Armitage signs up,
194
,
262
; and Elton’s
The Young Ones
,
210
; and televising of
The Cellar Tapes
,
214
; leaves
There’s Nothing to Worry About
,
229
; in
The Crystal Cube
,
297

Shepherd, Peter,
306

Sherlock Holmes Society of London,
19

Sherriff, R.C.,
60

Sherrin, Ned,
329–30
,
333–4

Short Circuit
(film),
88

Short, Nigel,
81

Simpkin, Paul,
176

Sinclair, John Gordon,
44
,
48–9

Skeat, W.W.,
89

Slattery, Tony,
155
,
190
,
213–14
,
259
,
262
,
332

Smith, Arthur,
332

Smith, Dame Maggie,
348

Smith, Mel,
180
,
209
,
247
,
296

Smith, Sir Paul,
293

smoking: SF’s addiction to,
23–30
,
33–4
,
37–40
,
50
,
56–8
; and sex,
24–5
; Simon Gray’s addiction to,
44–5
,
50
,
57
; SF gives up,
53–6
,
58–9
,
62–3
,
424

Snow, Greg,
176

Softley, Ian,
113–15
,
136

Sondheim, Stephen,
300–5

Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex
,
121–2
,
124
,
126–7

Southgate Road, London,
352
,
354
,
363

Speak, Peter,
82–3

Spearing, A.C.,
78

Speight, Johnny,
402

Spenser, Edmund,
106

Spitting Image
(TV programme),
383
,
394

Stamp, Gavin,
319

Stebbing Park, Essex,
258
,
296

Stevenson, Pamela,
391

Stewart, Patrick,
93

Stiller, Jerry,
61

Sting (born Gordon Sumner),
324

Stoker, Bram:
Dracula
,
190
,
205

Stone, Adam,
176

Stoppard, Sir Tom,
52–3
,
57
,
64
;
Travesties
,
97
,
152

Stormbreaker
(film),
255

Stouts Hill (school),
11
,
13

Strachey, Lytton,
69

Sturridge, Mary-Lou,
406

Suchet, David,
191

sugar beet,
10

Sugar Puffs (cereal),
6–8
,
10–11
,
19

Sullivan, John,
215

sweets and chocolate,
12–17
,
19–20

Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter,
157

Swinton, Tilda,
181–2
,
259

Sykes, Eric,
215

Symons, Nick,
342
,
353
,
363
,
365

Tafler, Jonathan,
127
,
135–6

Tandy, Jessica,
417

Tatler
(magazine),
299
,
306
,
308–10
,
318–20
,
324

Taylor, Barry,
114
,
136
,
149–52

Temple, John G.,
241–2

Temple, Julian,
250

Tennant, David,
90

Terrence Higgins Trust,
393

That Was The Week That Was
(TV programme),
329

Thatcher, Carol,
332–3

Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness,
83
,
201
,
208
,
294–5
,
328
,
333
,
380

There’s Nothing to Worry About
(TV sketch show),
20
,
228–9
,
238
,
280
,
373

This Is David Harper
(earlier
This Is David Lander
; TV programme),
332
,
356
,
404

Thompson, Emma: at Cambridge,
20
,
98–101
,
128
,
143–4
,
149
,
152
,
166
,
172
,
190
,
192
; sees
Latin
in Edinburgh,
156
; Armitage signs up,
175
,
262
; in
Memoirs of a Fox
revue,
181
; background,
208
; writes for Granada show,
210
; natural gifts,
213
; and televising of
The Cellar Tapes
,
214
; performs in Ben Elton sketches,
228
,
239
; visits Richard Armitage,
258
; in
The Crystal Cube
(TV programme),
297
; moderates work commitments,
321
; plays in
Me and My Girl
,
343
,
348