Muir & Norden, The Guv'nors

This is a link to an article on the writing partnership of Frank Muir and Denis Norden I wrote for the February 2022 edition of Best of British nostalgia magazine.

Link to article

Muir & Norden both wrote autobiographies. Frank Muir's "A Kentish Lad" is more conventional and particularly amusing on the early days of TV (when during technical hitches a tank of goldfish were wheeled on and the camera pointed at them). Denis Norden's "Clips from a Life" is excellent - it is an autobiography but with everything cut out except the anecdotes.

They two differ on a few key points. Muir says it was Dick Bentley who first delivered the famous "Infamy ! Infamy !" line but Norden makes a point of saying it was Jimmy Edwards. As the Muir book was published first most other sources use his account, however it is possibly more likely Norden is correct. They also have quite different contradictory accounts of the day they conceived Take It From Here.

Although principally writers for radio they also had numerous TV credits.