Jonathan Miller News

Comedy legend Peter Cook may have had an affair with socialite and former US first lady Jackie Kennedy, the star's pal and former colleague Alan Bennett has claimed.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gets lionized - and somewhat embalmed - in this solemn Festschrift by British filmmaker Phil Grabsky .

In recent years the English author, lecturer, physician and director Jonathan Miller has repeatedly stated that he is done with opera.

You may recall the Beyond the Fringe sketch in which Squadron Leader Peter Cook tells Jonathan Miller, the doleful pilot, that he must set out on a doomed mission because "we need a futile gesture at this stage.

IS THERE anything new in the theatre? Patrons of a certain age, like me, will remember the intimate revues of earlier years when a group of performers presented a programme of songs, dances and sketches.

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International.

As the great Ruth Gordon said brassily, clutching her just-won Oscar, "I can't tell ya how encouragin' a thing like this is." I mean your delighted reception of Dr.

SEE one-man show An Evening With Jonathan Miller is at Exeter Northcott tonight.

How many people have you met whose conversation is instantly publishable? There can never be more than a handful of such people living at any given time.