Four bags of excrement, one tea towel and a licence to fail… - December 2001 The Independent - December 16th, 2001

Where do creative ideas come from? A friend of mine thinks his beard receives them from the ether, and that when it grows too long the drooping hairs become less effective aerials. He is a wrong and lazy man. Most successful shows and stories evolve in the secrecy of writers’ garrets or rehearsal rooms before…