Samuel Pepys
Eric Gillett
On and off for the last three years Eric Gillett has given talks under the heading ' These My Friends'. In the present series he has discussed in his entertaining way Jane Austen , Benjamin Robert Haydon , the painter, and Maria Jane Jews -bury, early - nineteenth - century essayist. Gillett has varied the series with a talk on burlesque and another on comedians, illustrating both with gramophone records ; and now, choosing the immortal diarist Pepys for his subject, he brings the present series to an end. On May 22 he is to begin a new one-six talks on ' These Made Me Laugh '.