Robert is interviewed at his cottage home in Buckinghamshire for an up-coming Channel 4 documentary on popular culture’s influence on society. The 1960s segment of the programme is dedicated to the Carry On series and Robert will feature alongside Fenella Fielding, Valerie Leon and Leslie Phillips. We will alert you of the broadcast date as soon as we know.

Great japes at Longleat with Doctor Who friends old and new. Due to an accommodation cock-up Robert stayed with his journalist pal, Steve O’Brien and caught the end of Toby Hadoke’s comedy show in Bath. Good times.

Robert’s good friend, James Hogg, takes to the ‘BBC Breakfast’ sofa alongside Doreen Wise to discuss the Ernie Wise biography ‘Little Ern’. The authorized biography is co-written by Robert Sellers and  published today by Sidgwick and Jackson.

On the 42nd anniversary of the first broadcast of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, Unbound Books announce that the latest collection of Terry Jones short stories, ‘Evil Machines’, goes to press. Please wallow in the website and order now! http://unbound.co.uk/books/1

Over the last half a year a regular monthly fixture of Robert’s diary has been Mitch Benn and the Distractions residency at the Phoenix, Cavendish Square, near Oxford Circus. Silky and Vikki Stone were particularly brilliant this month with the usual stand-out solo turn from Distraction Kirsty Newton. Check out the website for news of next month’s line-up. It’s bound to be marvellous. http://distractionclub.com/

Robert was delighted to be interviewed by his good friend Sarah Jane Honeywell during her Celebrity gossip slot on BBC Kent. In full Marty Feldman biography plug mode the informal and fun chat covered everything from Sid James to Lionel Blair!

Robert was back in his beloved home town of Basingstoke for a few days, primarily in order to catch Colin Baker giving his Count Fosco in a wondrous three-hour adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’. Neil Stacy, Glyn Grain, Thomas Brownlee, Lucy Cudden and Isla Carter gave peerless support. The tour continues at the Lyceum theatre, Crewe from 11th October, the Festival theatre, Malvern from the 18th and concludes at the Brewhouse theatre, Taunton from 26th-29th October.

A bristling hot day and a bushel of meetings is topped off nicely by a jaunt to the Leicester Square theatre to see Michael Legge’s hilarious one-man and several framed photographs show ‘Curse Sir Walter Raleigh’; fresh from a successful stint at the Edinburgh Festival. Brilliant.

Robert is honoured and very excited to be involved in the brand new website BritishTheatre.com. A fabulous portal for the best in West End theatre, Robert has signed up to be the company’s head writer and is all ready hatching a top secret, extremely fun project for later in the year. Sadly, the day was marred by the news that David Croft had died at the ripe old age of 89. Director, producer and writer, he is of course best loved as the co-writer of ‘Dad’s Army’ alongside Jimmy Perry. The two men also brought warm nostalgia to the sitcom schedules with ‘Hi-De-Hi’ and, Robert’s personal favourite, ‘It ‘Ain’t ‘Alf Hot, Mum!’. David Croft also teamed up with Jeremy Lloyd to write the more innuendo-based classics ‘Are You Being Served?’ and ‘Allo, ‘Allo’. He also produced such television favourites as ‘Hugh and I’ and ‘Up Pompeii’ and directed the intricate ‘Steptoe and Son’ episode ‘Divided We Stand’. A true comedy craftsman, his legacy will never fade. You have been watching. We always will.

The final performances of ‘Betty Blue Eyes’ at the Novello theatre. The outstanding and award-winner musical based on the classic 1980s film ‘A Private Function’ saw Reece Shearsmith and Sarah Lancaster step into and dance in the footsteps of Michael Palin and Maggie Smith to lead an outstanding cast including David Bamber, Ann Emery, Adrian Scarborough, Jack Edwards and Ian Conningham. The evening saw another book launch, this time Nicholas Pegg’s revised and up-dated ‘Complete David Bowie’ for Titan Books.