By Jack Rosenthal

a writer who uniquely won three successive BAFTA Awards. The story moves from Manchester in the 30s�via school, evacuation, university, the Navy, the early days of Granada TV, marriage and life with Maureen Lipman, fatherhood, writing the famous plays, and working with Streisand�to Muswell Hill in the 90s. Sharp, funny, evocative, teeming with memorable stories and characters this is an autobiography like no other.