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In the s Henry's production company, Crucial Films, involved him in many new projects including a workshop for new writers and performers called Step Forward. He also began to garner a reputation as a television actor. His performance in Alive and Kicking alongside Robbie Coltrane won several awards, while his situation comedy Chef! In he appeared as school head teacher Ian George in Hope and Glory , a TV drama that reflected current fears about the British state school system and brought him personal critical acclaim, though the series itself was not highly rated.

In Henry himself returned to education when he began studying for a degree in English literature part-time at the Open University. Henry has credits as writer, actor, director, and producer of many TV shows, has performed voiceovers for cartoons and documentaries, and continues to tour with his one-man show. In he was rewarded for his contribution to entertainment and for his work with Comic Relief when he was honored as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE.

Career: Comedian, England, performed in pubs and clubs as well as with the Black and White Minstrels, s; television and film actor, s—; The Comic Strip, comedian group, —; Comic Relief, founder, —; Crucial Films, independent film production company, founder, s? We were in digs, and we came out of the theatre in Clywd. We were all standing there waiting for the bus to come and get us.

Then somebody came out and said, "All right, lovely. What are you people doing out here at this time of night? Peter Bankole, who played my son, said to me afterwards when we were having a cup of coffee and decompressing, "You should have said, 'we're coming for your wallet! It was a good twist on it, too, because I don't think there's ever been a black cast of that.

I really enjoyed the challenge of it. I was just sad that more black people didn't come to see it. Chichester is a lovely venue. But literally, Lashana [Lynch, who played Rita] and I were the only black people within mile radius. It was a really, really long play to do. I think there are people in the audience still watching it now.

Bloody hell, it was long. I have dreams sometimes when I'm in the middle of a scene still doing it. It's about the painful poverty of black lives in the ghetto and what people feel they have to do to survive. It's about the legacy of gun crime. It's about how you get through that and about the adventure or tragedy of it all. And it was a real trip.

I adore acting. It's a real full circle since pretending to be James Bond as I walked to school. To embody another human being and to do that on stage in front of people seems like the ultimate in play acting. I love that. I've done lots of other random things. I don't know why. Touring is great, but exhausting, and it takes you away from home.

I enjoy it, but I don't enjoy the travelling and being away from home. So I'll probably do less touring in the future. But I do love doing stand-up and I do love being on stage. So maybe there'll be another incarnation of touring, which might be me doing the show, but in the same place for a while. I was always envious of Rowan Atkinson, being somewhere for five weeks, and I always thought how great to be able to do your set and then go home.

So maybe that's what I'll do in the future. I write more than I used to — and I thank having a computer for that. I used to make lots of lists all the time. When I was starting out, I was a compulsive list-maker. I wrote lots of lists and had lots of ideas, but I never really finished anything. I think it's because my handwriting was appalling.

It still is, so if anybody knows of a calligraphy teacher, please let me know. But my handwriting looks like some ants crawled through some spilled ink and just made a squiggle across the page. My handwriting is literally the worst you've ever seen. At the behest of a book called The Artist's Way, I've spent years writing a journal every day for half an hour — but can I read it?

I've written radio plays, too. The first few were done with a brilliant Radio 4 producer called Claire Grove, who sadly is no longer with us. Claire did this fantastic thing where she encouraged me, she had empathy for the things I wanted to write about, and she absolutely gave me permission to write. She said, "Go ahead and write. It's about a woman called Corrinne who leaves an abusive relationship in Jamaica.

She's been having lessons in obeah, which is like witchcraft or voodoo, from the local witchy woman to protect herself and her children from her husband. Then she leaves Jamaica to live in Britain, but she leaves her kids with him. Then when she goes back 20 years later, she has to cope with the fact that she left and she has to explain herself to her daughters.

I think it's the most complete radio play I've written. But I've enjoyed doing all of them. I actually remember I cried at the read-through. It wasn't just because of the money you get paid on the radio, which is not really very good, but because I'd written something that was going to go out on the radio and I was really chuffed.

I want to write more for the radio. I've been really supported by Radio 4 drama and comedy. Rudy's Rare Records was my idea, but it was written by Danny Robbins. I was an associate on that.