When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

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To mark 50 glorious years since the first of 12 pitch-perfect episodes of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s hilarious sitcom, Fawlty Towers , hit our TV screens, we pick out five favourite guest stars who checked in and made life miserable for the hotel’s hapless owner

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For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass