Cole Bennett Quotes

and when Mrs Thatcher came to the college for a scientific symposium Tyson was deputed to take her round the Common Room. This is hung with portraits and photographs of dead fellows, including one of the economist G. D. H. Cole. Tyson planned to take Mrs Thatcher up to it saying, ‘And this, Prime Minister, is a former fellow, G. D. H. Dole.’ Whereupon, with luck, Mrs Thatcher would have had to say, ‘Cole not Dole.’ In the event he did take her round but lost his nerve.

Annie, one of our fiddle players, turned up one day to get on the tour bus, with characteristic scattiness, had been unable to get a babysitter, so we ended up with her six-year-old son, Pete, on tour, which actually turned out to be great fun. Pete, by the way, grew up to become Pete Bennett, the man with Tourette syndrome who won Big Brother.