50 years after Tony Hancock’s first radio show, scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson share some memories:
Simpson: “He went to see Pinter’s The Caretaker, and when he came back he said: ‘Christ, you’ve been writing this stuff for years’. ”
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50 years after Tony Hancock’s first radio show, scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson share some memories:
Simpson: “He went to see Pinter’s The Caretaker, and when he came back he said: ‘Christ, you’ve been writing this stuff for years’. ”
There is something in that. I’ve felt for a while that there’s quite a few David Mamet plays and treatments which are slowed-down versions of “Only Fools and Horses.”
I like both, just as I like both Pinter and Hancock.
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