The Complete Henry Root Letters

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Or saying that Henry Root Junior thought Cliff Richard was working behind the makeup counter at Boots makes me think, but for "Congratulations" go he. You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The thoroughly disgraceful life and times of Willie Donaldson. By the way , reading the Private Eye magazine I can't help comparing it's "styles" with those incredible originals scripts, written by Henry Moor. The phenomenal success of the Henry Root books, especially the first, enabled Donaldson to resume his earlier chaotic lifestyle, and in the mid-1980s he began using crack cocaine.

M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. I love this book and his laugh out style at trying to rankle celebrities and people in the public eye.Donaldson's ghastly creation wrote outrageous, threatening, scurrilous and outlandish letters to public figures, praising, insulting or attempting to bribe them. The letters were published as The Henry Root Letters and The Further Letters of Henry Root and a compilation volume, The Complete Henry Root Letters. This single volume brings together "The Henry Root Letters" and "The Further Letters of Henry Root". Henry Root, who made a fortune in wet fish, spent ten years in correspondence with powerful and famous people across Britain.

The sender of these letters – a cantankerous crusader against pornography and modernity, and for hanging and Mrs. His experiences there formed the basis of his first novel, Both the Ladies and the Gentlemen (1975). Esther Rantzen doesn't come out quite so well - there's a disagreement about whether the BBC should pay Root for some unusable script material, and Rantzen sends the same response to two different letters - the first from Root praising the show, the second, again thanking him and saying how much they appreciate viewer contributions is in response to his missive which says simply, "Dear Esther, You're a fat idiot and your show's a disgrace.Donaldson's biographical survey of roguish Britons through the ages, Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (2002), has been described as "a breathtaking triumph of misdirected scholarship". Root wrote the BBC – I think Monty Python had his number, the Queen, Prince Charles, various publishing houses.

Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays. Not only have so many of the people approached here faded from the memory that one can't quite remember why they were laughable, but some of the attitudes verge on bullying and prejudice in a way that's now well beyond the bounds of acceptability by today's mores. In short, he was the British version of Sarah Palin – but people apparently took him seriously (with the exception of Cambridge). His letters, full of alleged scandals and hanky panky, are taken perfectly seriously by their recipients whose responses are as funny as Root's own rantings. It is very non PC and there is a wave of guilt that I should find it amusing, but nevertheless it is a good read.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The millions who enjoyed the original 'Root' will no doubt have assumed that such a public and hysterical scam could never be repeated. He was educated at Winchester College (where he first met Julian Mitchell) and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He established himself as a central player in the British satire boom of the early 1960s, as co-producer, with Donald Albery, of Beyond the Fringe (1960), and of dramatisations of J. His heroes were few, but those who were, to Root's mind, "sound" - principally Mrs Thatcher, the Dowager Lady Birdwood and James Anderton, "God's Cop", the self-appointed guardian of Greater Manchester's morals. Donaldson's third marriage, in 1986, was to Cherry Hatrick, who survived him; they separated six months after their marriage.