Beloved actor Leslie Phillips has been reunited with one of his favourite leading ladies. No not Julie Christie, but the four-wheeled lovely from ‘The Fast Lady’. A private collector paid £550,000 for the 1927 4.5-litre Bentley which Leslie’s caddish car dealer sells naive Stanley Baxter in the classic 1963 Ken Annakin directed comedy. Leslie, who had been offered the car by the film’s producers after filming wrapped, was delighted to pose with the car, lovingly restored and looking better than ever: “God, I SHOULD have bought it, shouldn’t I?” he said with a twinkle in his eye. The vehicle was sold by car dealership Friskens after it was displayed at The Masterpiece Fair at Chelsea Barracks.

It’s back to Caversham for more of the same!

Robert journeys to Reading to spent some fruitful hours in his favourite archives: the BBC Written Archives in Caversham.

Where does the time go? Don’t answer that. The weeks have whizzed by with Robert up to his eyes in research and writing for various projects…as well as celebrating a milestone birthday with family and friends. He has also contributed heavily to a new, two-part Radio 4 documentary provisionally entitled ‘Carry On Forever’. To be broadcast next month, Leslie Phillips presents while such great names as Liz Fraser, Anita Harris, Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Cope contribute their memories of the series.