23. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 1987.
24. Sunday Times, 25 September 1983.
25. Daily Mail, 14 November 1992.
26. Sunday Times, 5 August 1984.
27. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
28. News of the World, 3 February 1985.
29. Sunday Times, 10 February 1985.
30. Publish and Bedazzled, No. 7.
31. The Times, 27 February 1987.
32. Ibid.
33. Illustrated London News, December 1988.
34. Shane Maloney, ‘Hanging Out at Hanging Rock’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
35. Ronald Bergan, Beyond The Fringe . . . And Beyond.
36. Unidentified press cutting, October 1993.
37. Sunday Times, March 1986.
38. Peter McKay, Inside Private Eye.
39. South Bank Show, LWT 15 September 1991.
40. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 1987.
41. LWT, 1986; The Listener, November 1982.
42. Independent, 10 January 1995.
43. Sun 26 May 1989.
44. Publish and Bedazzled, No. 6.
45. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
46. The Times, 11 July 1992.
47. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Daily Star, 22 September 1987.
51. Daily Mail, 28 September 1996.
52. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995.
53. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
54. Daily Mail, 17 February 1996.
55. Ibid.
56. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
57. Sun, 20 November 1984.
58. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
59. TV Times, 18 November 1989.
60. Daily Express, 4 December 1986.
61. Unidentified press cutting, 10 January 1995.
62. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
63. Illustrated London News, December 1988.
64. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
65. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
66. Pembroke College Annual Gazette, 1995.
67. Independent on Sunday, 30 July 1995.
68. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
69. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
70. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
71. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
72. Sunday Express, 15 January 1995.
73. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996.
Chapter 16 Now That the World Is In My Grasp:
The Final Years, 1989–95
1. Eleanor Bron, ‘Peter’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
2. Lin Cook, ‘Paradise in Perrin’s Walk’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
3. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 9 January 1996.
4. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
5. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
6. Radio Times, 1990.
7. Independent, 12 June 1996.
8. Time Out, 30 January 1991.
9. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
10. John Lloyd, ‘The Worst Job I Ever Had’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
11. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 9 January 1996.
12. Evening Standard, 23 August 1993.
13. Evening Standard, 8 September 1993.
14. New Musical Express, 25 September 1993.
15. Daily Mail, 14 November 1992.
16. Daily Express, 10 January 1995.
17. Independent on Sunday, 30 July 1995.
18. John Bird, ‘The Last Pieces’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.anuary 199ght="0">
19. John Cleese, ‘Peter Amadeus Cook’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
20. Independent, 14 December 1993.
21. Aspel & Co., LWT, 9 January 1988.
22. Michael Palin, ‘I Had That Peter Cook in the Back of My Car’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
23. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995 & 12 December 1994.
24. Hampstead and Highgate Express, 20 December 1996.
25. Alan Bennett, ‘Thoughts and Afterthoughts’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
26. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
27. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
28. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995.
29. Guardian, 15 October 1996.
Chapter 17 Zsa Zsa Man Dies: Death and Aftermath, 1995–97
1. Daily Mail, 15 March 1997.
2. Daily Mail, 17 December 1995.
3. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 9 January 1996.
4. New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
5. Sun, 10 January 1995.
6. Daily Mail, 23 May 1977.
7. Alan Bennett, ‘Thoughts and Afterthoughts’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
8. Guardian, 2 May 1995.
9. The Times, 2 May 1995.
10. , 2 May 1995.
11. Unidentified press cutting.
12. John Cleese, ‘Peter Amadeus Cook’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
13. Guardian, 15 October 1996.
14. The Sunday Times, 4 June 1995.
15. Daily Mail, 17 February 1996.
16. Daily Telegraph, 1996.
17. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
18. Daily Mail, 15 March 1997.
19. Daily Mail, 17 February 1996; Sunday Times, 4 June 1996.
20. Daily Mail, 15 March 1997.
21. Evening Standard, 14 October 1996.
22. Daily Mail, 15 March 1997.
23. Hampstead and Highgate Express, 20 December 1996.
24. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 9 January 1996.
25. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995.
26. Person to Person, BBC TV, 1979.
27. The Sunday Times, 15 January 1995.
28. London Review of Books, 25 May 1995.
29. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 26 December 1995.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Raised by Goats: Early Life, 1937–51
2 I’m Much Bigger Than You Are, Sir: Radley and Abroad, 1951–57
3 I Could Have Been a Judge, But I Never Had the Latin: Cambridge, 1957–60
4 So That’s the Way You Like It: Beyond the Fringe, 1960–62
5 Sorry, Sir, There Is a £5 Waiting List: The Establishment Club, 1961–62
6 Heaving Thighs Across Manhattan: America, 1962–64
7 The Seductive Brethren: Private Eye, 1964–70
8 We’re Always Ready to be Jolted Out of Our Seats, Here at the BBC: Pete and Dud, 1964–67
9 Nice Though This Be I Seek Yet Further Kicks: Family Life, 1964–71
10 Learning to Fly Underwater: Pete and Dud, 1968–71
11 3-D Lobster: The Humour of Peter Cook
12 I Can’t Talk Now, ’Cos He’s Here: Behind the Fridge, 1971–75
13 I Don’t Want to See Plays About Rape, Sodomy and Drug Addiction – I Can Get All That at Home: Der
14 You Are to Be a Stud, Dud: Dudley’s Hollywood Success, 1979–83
15 Whereupon I Immediately Did Nothing: The Single Life, 1983–89
16 Now That the World Is In My Grasp, It Seems a Fitting Time to Go: The Final Years, 1989–95
17 Zsa Zsa Man Dies: Death and Aftermath, 1995–97
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