Richard Webber (II)
- Writer
Press clippings
How the BBC almost turned down Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is regarded as one of the finest British sitcoms ever made, but in 1974 a script editor at the BBC deemed it a "disaster".
Richard Webber, The Telegraph, 13th September 2015Arthur Lowe's son on growing up with Capt Mainwaring
Stephen Lowe reveals his father's battle with narcolepsy and why the wife of the Dad's Army actor missed his funeral.
Richard Webber, The Telegraph, 18th July 2015Melvyn Hayes: 'BBC is too PC, so no repeat fees for me'
Actor Melvyn Hayes has enjoyed a long screen career but he can't understand the BBC's refusal to repeat the show that made him famous.
Richard Webber, The Telegraph, 19th October 2014New show celebrates Dad's Army writers Perry & Croft
Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-De-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord? were all written by just two men. A new BBC show celebrates their lives.
Richard Webber, The Daily Express, 3rd May 2014Barry Cryer on working with Morecambe and Wise
Barry Cryer talks about working with Britain's greatest double act.
Richard Webber, The Telegraph, 7th October 2013Ronnie Barker: a performer hell-bent on perfection
Though painfully shy, comic actor Ronnie Barker didn't mind stepping on toes to get his own way, says his biographer Richard Webber.
Richard Webber, The Telegraph, 25th September 2013