Building a Camp Library Part 2: Quentin Crisp, David Bowie, Evelyn Waugh

Lecture no. 6

Dear Heart,

There is a catchphrase from my childhood which illustrates one of the biggest changes in British habits during the last century:

“What’s on the other side?”

When I was growing up in the 1970s, there were just three television channels, and one of those did not really count. BBC2, to my memory, only ever seemed to show three things: snooker, mo…