... certain amount of bias and first-hand knowledge, having had the pleasure of handling the publicity of Harry and Sooty in their salad days, from 1960-67, and of introducing them to their far-seeing agent Vincent Shaw, thereby adding a whole new dimension globally ...

... pre-World War II British musical, and of the post-war successes, that is before Andrew Lloyd Webber came along, The Boy Friend, Salad Days and so on capi talised on quaintness and a vague eccentricity which sometimes travelled surprisingly well. The shining ...

... something of the splendour of one of Mackintosh's productions glossy, colourful and immaculately presented. Seeing Julian Slade's Salad Days when he was eight may have spurred Mackintosh's inter est in musical theatre, but it was reading CB Cochran's book A Showman ...