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Memories of school days and road to Beyond the Fringe
• I WAS heartened to hear Sir Jonathan Miller in fine fettle blasting against the wickedness of the Camden Town drug-dealers near where he lives while promoting his latest production for ENO to Andrew Marr at the beginning of Radio 4’s Start The Week on Monday. Only when asked about his own attitude to death did words seem to fail this greatly gifted man, whom we take for granted at our peril.
Do people ever remember today that his mother, Betty Miller, wrote an outstanding biography of the poet Robert Browning published in the 1950s?
Jonathan was two years ahead of me in the same school in Hammersmith in 1951 when I was the star of the BBC children’s television series Junior Wranglers.
He and a boy called Eric Korn delighted audiences in very funny reviews which paved the way to Beyond The Fringe.
Eric Korn today writes regularly about bibliography for the TLS. Perhaps Piers Plowright, the prize-winning BBC producer and regular book reviewer for the New Journal, will interview both Jonathan and Eric about their school days for the “Lifelines” series at Burgh House.
It would be a fascinating reunion.
JOHN HORDER, NW6
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