Summary: Libby Purves meets cloth merchants Philip Pittack and Martin White who have 120 years of experience in textiles between them and run Crescent Trading: cartoonist Annie Tempest has just published a book entitled Tottering-by-Gently the first 20 years; Nicholas Shakespeare is an award-winning novelist and biographer & his latest book is a personal one called Priscilla The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France & is published by Random House and finally Dillie Keane who is an actor and singer/songwriter. She founded the satirical cabaret trio Fascinating Aida in 1983.
