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Graham Armitage was the Carpenter (the taller chap), in the Garrick’s production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I was the Walrus. Graham was very, very funny – not academically inclined – but a fine performer in school plays, usually as…

I was nudged into acting by a bolshie schoolmaster. He came out of Hitler’s war, still wearing his army fatigues, and revived play-acting at my grammar school. There was a small foreigner’s part in Sheridan’s play The Critic and Mr…