On Midweek this week:-
PHILIP SERRELL
Philip Serrell has been an auctioneer since 1976. He began his career as assistant to the man nicknamed "Ten o'clock Ted" - which was the time he habitually arrived for nine o'clock appointments! But the eccentric Mr Rayer taught him the rudiments of the trade, and insisted on driving him between appointments in an old Triumph his colleagues named "Thunderbird Four".
Philip has written the tales of working life: An Auctioneer's Lot published by Hodder, price: £14.99.
MAUREEN LIPMAN
Maureen Lipman, actress and wife of Jack Rosenthal.
One of the great dramatists of his generation, Jack wrote 129 episodes of Coronation Street, co-wrote the film Yentl with Barbra Streisand, and won BAFTAs for his plays including Bar Mitzvah Boy.
Before he died of cancer last May he wrote most of his autobiography in the style of a screenplay. Maureen has added a poignant postscript.
An Autobiography in Six Acts, is published by Robson Books, £17.99.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
Folk singer, Loudon Wainwright III has a new CD Here Come The Choppers, on the Evangeline label. He will undertake a short British tour starting on 21 April in Belfast, and going on to: Glasgow, Gateshead Sage, Leeds Irish Centre, London Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cardiff St. David's Hall, Croydon Fairfeld Hall, Leicester De Montfort Hall, and Manchester Lowry.
RICHARD HOLMES
Winston Churchill was billed as the greatest Britain in a BBC poll - and he's now the subject of a new study by the renowned military historian, Richard Holmes. In an eight-part series for BBC 4, he follows in Churchill's footsteps to many of the places the great man trod across the globe - from his birthplace of Blenheim Palace, through to the North-West Frontier, South Africa, 10 Downing Street and his beloved Chartwell.
In the Footsteps of Churchill is on BBC 4 on Wednesdays at 8.30pm.
There is a book to accompany the series, published by BBC Books, price: £20.
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