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.

Fun, laughter and a few possible assignments are discussed with Bob Golding and Paul Cole. Cheers.

Robert guests on BBC Wales to discuss the life and work of Marty Feldman. His friend, Robert Fairclough’s biography of Ian Carmichael is launched later in the day. ‘This Charming Man’ is published by Aurum Press.

‘Time Out’ unveil their top 100 comedy films here: http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/1529/100-best-comedy-movies. Just one Carry On (‘Carry On Screaming!’), one Keaton (‘The General’) and one Chaplin (‘The Great Dictator’). As ‘Time Out’ tweeted Robert: “There’s a definite sway towards contemporary at the expense of classic comedy. But it’s democracy, and the mob has spoken!” Well, quite! 😉 Here are 10 that Robert would certainly include: ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’, ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’, ‘Carry On Cleo’, ‘Blockheads’, ‘A Shot in the Dark’, ‘The Naked Truth’, ‘Very Important Person’, ‘Never Give A Sucker An Even Break’, ‘Ask A Policeman’ and ‘City Slickers II’ – yes, honestly! And just for the record, ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ would be in pole position. Let the pub debate rage!

Robert chats at length with Radio Teesdale’s Peter Dixon about his career in writing and, in particular, Marty Feldman. The half hour interview is available here http://www.canstream.co.uk/radioteesdale/index.php?id=1473

The scrumptious Kent House in Knightsbridge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ‘The Persuaders!’. Sir Roger Moore was on hand to chat with Barry Norman about the series and other aspects of his career . He also signed copies of the Network DVD blu-ray collection. A must have, of course.

What with the last minute finishing touches to his Marty Feldman biography and the wonderfully insane Whoathon on Twitter – which entails a viewing of *every* episode of ‘Doctor Who’, the updates for the website have been very poor just recently. Suffice to say the gaps will be filled in as and when Robert remembers them (!) and lots of new content is coming very shortly. In the meantime. Robert’s latest book ‘Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend’ is available now. Published by Titan Books it is the first biography of the writer, actor, director and thinker. Please buy a cop.