Galton and Simpson

Hancock's Half-Hour and Steptoe and Son - two persuasive reasons for making Ray Galton and Alan Simpson pre-eminent among Britain's postwar comedy writers. In their first full-length profile, the duo, who met as teenagers in 1948 when they were both convalescing from tuberculosis in Milford sanatorium, talk about their distinguished body of work to author and broadcaster Nigel Williams.