Kenneth Williams at 100: A Celebration

Fifty years ago, David Benson’s competition entry to the Jackanory Writing Competition was chosen and performed by Kenneth Williams. Twenty years later, he wrote and performed his solo show Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, an immediate hit on the Edinburgh Fringe. This led to a Nationwide tour and a West End run. Since then David has created many solo shows including the Amnesty International award-nominated Lockerbie: Unfinished Business; and Cato Street 1820 which was performed at the British Library. He has toured extensively with Jack Lane in the Dad’s Army Radio Show and played over one thousand performances in the National Theatre smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors.

His many books include the bestselling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international bestseller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma? and most recently Somewhere a Boy and a Bear – A Biography of A A Milne and Winnie-the- Pooh. With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes with Purple. Gyles presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4 with Dame Sheila Hancock and regularly appears on Celebrity Gogglebox with Dame Maureen Lipman.