Category: Joe Orton

‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music

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Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace PaleyI first heard the Cure’s Charlotte...

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‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth Williams

by | Feb 20, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the showWhen standup comic Tom Allen received Attitude magazine’s comedy award last year,...

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