The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole some detail. The book also contains extracts from Sue Townsend's own diaries together with some of her essays, plus a collection of entries from an unknown teenage girl's diary written in the 1930s in Grantham. Townsend suggests that the girl was called Margaret Hilda Roberts and no one knows what became of her, although most readers will spot that this is a strong and bitter satire about Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Roberts was her maiden name). Townsend originally created this satire in the first few issues of the newspaper "Today", as "The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 13".
Alan Blaikley Blaikley and Howard's concept album, "Ark 2" (1969), performed by Flaming Youth, drew the comment that Blaikley and Howard "have a wit, gaiety, dignity and melodic flair reminiscent of Leonard Bernstein...which suggest that pop is becoming the serious music – in the proper sense – of the age" Blaikley and Howard wrote two West End musicals, "Mardi Gras" (Prince of Wales Theatre, 1976) and "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" (Wyndham's Theatre, 1984 – 1986), and two BBC TV musicals "Orion" (1977) and "Ain't Many Angels" (1978). They also wrote music and lyrics to the 1990 UK tour of Roald