Beverley Nichols is 85 In September. His life as a professional writer began at the age of 8, when he had a poem published in a Torquay newspaper.
More than 70 years later he is still writing. In the second in a series of three conversations he talks about himself, his family and his friends, and the famous men and women of a far-off time - the 20s. 30s and 40s.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK