After Dinner Speakers: Norman Wisdom, Hattie Hayridge, Paul Whitehouse

Norman Wisdom was born in London in 1915. Early careers as a coal-miner, a waiter, a pageboy and a cabin boy, led to service in India in the army. In 1946 he made his debut as an entertainer at the advanced age of 31, A West End star within two years, he made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. By this time, he had adopted the suit that would remain his trademark - tweed cap askew with peak turned up, too-tight jacket, barely better trousers, crumpled collar and tie awry. Memorable film performances in Trouble in Store, Man of the Moment and later, in On the Beat and A Stitch in Time, he is peculiarly revered in Albania. Still working today Norman Wisdom offers a uniquely dignified recollection of early British film.