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Date published: various dates
Publisher: not published publicly
Years after the event, letters to and from editors make hilarious reading. Although highly talented, John could also be a difficult customer and all too frequently, rubbed editors up the wrong way with the result that they lashed out at him.
Date published: 1970s
Publisher: No idea where this was published
John was prepared to do almost anything for a story. Here he has a go at hot-air ballooning.
Date published: 1980s
Publisher: YOU magazine
John could spin straw into gold, or turn toads into princes, as this article shows.
Date published: April 1969
Publisher: Nova Magazine
Peter Sellers was notoriously difficult to interview but Sandilands managed it ...
Date published: 1984
Publisher: Over21 Magazine
For this issue of Over21 magazine, John appeared on the cover with the above celebrities. It is one of his most intimate and revealing pieces.
Date published: 1998
Publisher: The Guardian
For about a year, John contributed a weekly column to the Guardian about the well-known estate agents Pratt and Idiot. Each one is a miniature masterpiece. Here are two of them.
Date published: various
Publisher: not published
John had his light moments—and his lighter moments. This animal alphabet, just done for fun at odd times, shows an Edward Lear-type mischievousness at work.
Date published: 1980s
Publisher: YOU magazine
John could spin straw into gold, or turn toads into princes, as this article shows.
Date published: 2000?
Publisher: not published - except on the website
John wrote this clever poem about John (now Lord) Prescott when Prescott was Deputy PM, charting what a long way he had come from his early beginnings as cabin crew on the cross-channel ferry.
Date published: 1985
Publisher: Mail on Sunday
Here is one of the best Herograms John ever received:
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