Letter: William Gaskill's talent for friendship
Bill Gaskill had a talent for friendship. While he was always honest and unsentimental, he was also kind, thoughtful, funny and good company. I first met him as an undergraduate at Oxford (which he left without regrets or a degree but with a considerable amount of reading and directing theatre under his belt) in 1952. Forty-seven years later, we found ourselves to be neighbours in Kentish Town, London, and spent many…