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Frankenstein's monster and William

Let's get it straight. The show now running at Royal & Derngate is a 'does what it says on the tin' job.

It's pointedly billed as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Not the iconic take by Dudley-born James Whale that made Boris Karloff a star.

Not a Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee version.

"We want a bit of a CV," said the commissioning editor.

Very dodgy propositions these days, as I'm sure you're aware, either as readers or writers of same.

Now, from the Himalayan perspective of pensionerhood (a tributary of the great River of Life otherwise known as a creek that rhymes with grit) I can toss off a dozen very impressive sides of A4.

But let's keep it short. Don't worry, I only do the Powerpoint presentation stuff on a second or third interview.

I shudder to record that I know of people who these days hand CV memory sticks to their interviewers as they leave the inquisition room.

So, to dispense with all the meaningless bollocks about exam grades, my two Oxbridge degrees and my Yale doctorate, my time in the darker reaches of the intelligence service and my skills as a part-time gigolo, let's just say I've spent a long working life as a hack.