Frank Muir

PrefaceHaving to write a preface after labouring for five years to produce the book is an unnerving experience and something of an anti-climax; rather like an elephant who has succeeded at long last in giving birth to her calf being then required to balance a bun on her head.But a preface has its...

IntroductionReaders who have never heard the radio programme in which these stories were first brought forth are due a word of explanation.'My Word!' was devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason in 1956. It is a literary quiz in which the contestants, instead of treating the subject with the...