Wendy Cope Arts and Reviews editor for the Inner London Education Authority magazine, "Contact". Five years later she became a freelance writer and was a television critic for "The Spectator" magazine until 1990. Five collections of her adult poetry have been published, "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" in 1986, "Serious Concerns" in 1992, "If I Don't Know" in 2001, "Family Values" in 2011, and "Anecdotal Evidence" in 2018. She has also edited several anthologies of comic verse and was a judge of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. In 1998, she was voted the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll to
Kenneth Cope a female nurse as part of his father's attempt to rob a maternity hospital. Once there Cyril finds love with a real nurse. In 1975–76 he wrote three series of the BBC children's television series "Striker", starring the young Kevin Moreton and inspired by the local youth football team in the village of Islip, Oxfordshire, where the Cope family was then living. Cope later appeared in the "Doctor Who" story "Warriors' Gate" (in 1981), and guest starred in four episodes of "Casualty", as well as taking roles in "The Bill", "Waking the Dead", "A Touch of Frost", "Minder" and "Kavanagh