My friend John Garforth, who has died aged 79, was a writer who turned popular television programmes such as The Avengers, The Pallisers and Paul Temple into paperback novels and promoted the arts at community level. His upbringing in London was complex and had elements of mystery, but as a young man he had a milk round, worked at the Unity theatre, London, and was sent to Wormwood Scrubs prison as a conscientious ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM on February 17, 2014