'Kenneth Williams and His Diaries' British Library June 2016

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  @amandabutterfield-maciazek7987 · 5 years ago

  Saw Kenneth Williams in a park when i was a child wandering around looking at a statue.He was in a play and incidentally the theatre was opposite the park.I will treasure that memory forever..😢❤

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• SA

  @Sameoldfitup · 5 years ago

  “Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.............

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• NE

  @NellieKite · 2 years ago

  Wish Kenneth Williams diaries were on an audio book

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• TH

  @TheChrisrg · 6 years ago

  I saw David Benson do his one man show years ago in Manchester. Fantastic stuff. Currently re reading KW diaries.

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• CH

  @charlesdavis7087 · 5 years ago

  Love this.   Would have loved it even more if it had been filmed.   Thanks to all concerned.

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• BR

  @brexitannia9703 · 3 years ago

  I have read Kenneth Williams dairys three times they are so interesting he was very honest I also wrote journals until I decided to bin them all because when I went back to read some it was like going back to ones own vomit. <br>Kenneth was a very funny man yet such a tragic figure trapped and at times unhappy bogged down by his mother something I can relate to. &nbsp;He did what he had threatened to do in the end and saw himself out.

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• IA

  @ianrichardson8990 · 4 years ago

  Thank-you, David. &nbsp;Wonderful and fascinating. &nbsp;I was lucky enough to see Kenneth when he came to my school in 1980. &nbsp;One of my treasured memories. &nbsp;Also the first time I remember hearing anyone use the word dogma. ☺

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  @jolankaschoppers1319 · 5 years ago

  I live in the Netherlands and i miss him to ❤️❤️

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• ZE

  @zeddeka · 6 months ago

  Regarding the &quot;louche parties&quot; that were mentioned, further details were given in the book &quot;Born Brilliant&quot; which was written with help from two of Kenneth Williams&apos; friends Tom Waine and Clive Dennis. The parties were held by the famous film director John Schlesinger, who had known Kenneth Williams and Stanley Baxter in the army during the war and who of course was gay himself. Amongst other people, Waine and Dennis recall meeting Rudolf Nureyev at parties (they don&apos;t seem to specify whose parties), and Joe Orton

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• DA

  @davidholmes3003 · 5 years ago

  What a wonderful performer he was - unique and much missed.

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  @analogueman123456787 · 3 years ago

  Don&apos;t feel like you need to apologise for a lack of any visuals old chap. I, for one, am simply grateful you&apos;ve taken the trouble to upload the audio. <br><br>Thank you.

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  @frglee · 6 years ago

  In 1978, I had to stop the car at the traffic lights in Euston Road at Great Portland Street. Walking across the road in front of me, was the great Kenneth Williams, a little dapper man in a grey suit and coat, with a scowling grimace. Perhaps his proctological problems were bad. He&apos;d have been 52 then, but looked rather older. He lived near Regents Park, apparently.

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