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".
Ken Howard (composer) "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 for the 1990 UK tour of Roald Dahl's "Matilda". As a British film maker Howard has worked extensively in drama, music and documentary films. These have included (for the BBC) "A Penny for Your Dreams", "John Lennon - A Journey in the Life", "The Miracle of Intervale Avenue", "Open Mind", "Mr Abbott’s Broadway" and "Sunny Stories"; (for ITV) "South Bank Show" profiles of the New World Symphony Orchestra, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Hakan