I am grateful to the following for permission to reproduce material: the British Broadcasting Corporation, California Institute of Technology, Dick Cavett, Condé Nast, Richard Holloway, Immediate Media Company, Sue Lawley, Norman Lebrecht, Ralph Montagu, the National Portrait Gallery, New Statesman, New York Review of Books, Opera, Ann Pasternak Slater, Spectator, the Taylor and Frances Group and Kirsty Wark.
Several great institutions helped in the gathering of material. My thanks go to the staff at BBC Written Archives Centre (especially Louise North), the BFI Reuben Library, the British Library (not least Steven Dryden) and King’s College London Foyle Special Collections.
I wish to thank the following people for advice, information and friendship during the preparation of One Thing and Another: Mark Aldridge, Alan Andres, Steve Arnold, John Bassett, Kate Bassett, Andrew Billen, Lez Cooke, Michael Coveney, Caroline Cowie, Paul Ebbs, Dick Fiddy, Bob Franklin, Gavin Stewart Gaughan, Peter Gilman, Peter Gordon, Jason Hazeley, John Hill, Remy Hunter, Emily Jenkins, Mark Lewisohn, Andrew Martin, David Miller, Joel Morris, Marcus Prince, Rosy Rickett, David Rolinson, Karl Sabbagh, Billy Smart, Vicky Thomas, Simon Usher, Anthony Wall, John Williams and Zoë Wilcox. Simon Scott, always. Thanks also to Michael Brooke, Mark Duguid, Andrew McGibbon and David Quantick for granting earlier opportunities to research the career of Jonathan Miller, and to Simon Farquhar and W. Stephen Gilbert for their collegiate support and wisdom during the editing process.
I am grateful too to all at Oberon Books for another opportunity to follow my nose, especially my editor George Spender. Thanks also to Caroline Waldron and Martin Hargreaves for typesetting and indexing, and Justin Lewis for his careful proofreading. Any remaining errors are my responsibility.
Finally, I am indebted to those most important to the project: Jonathan and Rachel Miller, for their blessing, support and generosity. I am grateful to them for permitting me such a free hand to select from and evaluate a remarkable career.
Ian Greaves
London, July 2016