In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.