Articles on Private Eye, Including - Peter Cook, Willie Rushton, Ian Hislop, John Betjeman, Victor Lewis-Smith, Gerald Scarfe, Claud Cockburn, Richard Ingrams, Barry Humphries, Francis Wheen, Paul Foot, Christopher Logue, Bill Tidy (Paperback)

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