... He was the leader of the Bonzo Dog Band amongst other things if you must know, and "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End" one of his finest achievements as a writer.
"Sir Henry at Rawlinson End" is set in Rawlinson Manor somewhere in rural England and was originally broadcast on John Peel's radio ... Read review
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Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
The central though nearly impenetrable plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is Sir Henry's
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(Trevor Howard) attempts to exorcise the trouserless ghost of his dead brother Humbert whom he accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident. This is aided or hindered by his mad family and servants including the tapeworm-obsessed Mrs. E; Old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer; the eternally knitting Aunt Florrie and Lady Phillipa of Stains a turkey-legged old soak. With German PoWs in the garden fishing for hairdressers a mechanical bulldog a horse in the billiards room and a marriage bed furnished with a barbed-wire divide the mayhem of Rawlinson End is endless....
Advantages: Fitth Hounds of Hades Disadvantages: There is No Proper Name For The back of the Knees
...the extreme. Take Sir Henry for example a pompous arrogant buffoon with very few redeeming qualities to his character. He drip feeds his marrow, described as a monstrous jade zebra veg, the reason for this being "should some rascal half-inch and eat it, it'll give him the liquorice for weeks" very quickly we are faced with the full pomposity of Sir Henry's character and in here there is definitely shades of Churchill being saterised, quite viciously. ... ...one who could live with Sir Henry would have to have both these qualities. Sir Henries attitude to the staff is shockingly bad they are there to satisfy his needs and nothing else his request to the housekeeper Mrs E "I don't know what I want, but I want it now" shows this quite clearly, as is his repost to Old Scrotum "You are supposed to love me, You vile Jelly" before hitting him over the head with a gun reinforces this.
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