Which side does the Good Fairy enter from? What panto character is always last to take a bow? Which panto is rarely performed because, like Macbeth, it's said to bring bad luck?

Michael Billington discovers the answers to these and other questions in conversation with John Morley, who has written over 100 pantomime scripts for most of this country's leading pantomime artists and borrows heavily from the traditions and gags of the past in order to entertain audiences of today.