Summary
JOURNALIST, theatrical producer and provocateur, Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) was a key player in the liberalisation of culture during the Sixties. Midway through that decade he became the first man to say "f**k" on British television, and as literary manager of the National Theatre campaigned successfully to end censorship of staged works.
Thanks to a biography written by his second wife Kathleen, and his own published diaries, Tynan is better known these days for his taste in sado-masochistic sex than for his writing.See the full content of this document
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So Who the @! *% Was Kenneth Tynan?
That's a pity because he wrote with great verve and wit, and was so arch you could drive a train through him.
By 27 he was d...See the full content of this document
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