Does this name mean anything to anyone?
http://www.mbalit.co.uk/pages/writers/wallington.html
He's probably best known for his book 500 mile walkies but there were a few others that made it to TV too including Happy Birthday Shakespeare starring Neil Morrissey and the Missing Postman with James Bolam.
Why am I telling you this? Well, I've recently been re-reading his book called The Day Job about his life a jobbing gardner in 1980. What will perhaps be interesting to people on here is that his 'other' job was as an aspiring comedy writer. It talks about meeting John Lloyd and Dave Allen and finally getting two sketches on Not the Nine O'clock News. The news comes the day John Lennon was shot.
If you want to read a funny book and get a flavour of someone's struggle to be recognised in the comedy world I would heartily recommend it. You can read some of the book online here: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=2432
Also of interest is that his writing partner at the time was Dick Fiddy who I'm sure Aaron knows as the TV historian who wrote Missing Presumed Wiped: Searching for the Lost Treasures of British Televison.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851708668/comedyguide-21/
