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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Kenneth Tynan
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(1927–80)
The most influential British theatre critic of the mid-20C, reviewing in the Observer at a time when there was a wave of exciting new drama. His whole-hearted response to John Osborne's first play was typically arrresting: 'I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see *Look Back in Anger.' In 1963 he became literary manager of the new National Theatre and was largely responsible for its exciting repertoire in those early years. Always a professional enfant terrible, he deliberately provoked outrage in 1965 by become the first person to say 'fuck' on British television; similar in its effect, but more rewarding commercially, was the sexually liberated revue Oh! Calcutta! which he devised and produced in 1969.
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