Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR: I knew Lord Charles Purefoy in the 1970s, but then so did

everyone. I had also known him in the 1960s when we were at school together, and in the same house.