Veteran TV producer Verity Lambert has died at 71. She helped to give the world one particular British TV hero.<\/p>\n
He’s a favourite of mine: unusual, long-lasting, famed for his outlandish appearance, his sense of stylish outsidership, and his non-violent response to encountering evil wherever he goes. And he celebrates an anniversary this week.<\/p>\n
I mean of course… Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mr Crisp died 8 years ago on Wednesday. The DVD of the Naked Civil Servant<\/em> – the single most influential film on my life – includes a commentary from Ms Lambert, who executively produced the film for Thames TV in 1975, after it had been turned down by everyone else.<\/p>\n Without her I wouldn’t be the man I’m not today. Thank you, Verity.<\/p>\n (Oh, and thanks for that Doctor Who programme, 44 years old today. I rather like that, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran TV producer Verity Lambert has died at 71. She helped to give the world one particular British TV hero. He’s a favourite of mine: unusual, long-lasting, famed for his outlandish appearance, his sense of stylish outsidership, and his non-violent response to encountering evil wherever he goes. And he celebrates an anniversary this week. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}