Murray Watts asked me to play Theodore, "a drunken sot", in Angela Tilby's play Solstice, which he was producing in Emmanuel College Chapel for a week's run. The role involved a couple of songs and some dialogue, and smelling the part to the audience behind the choir stall on which I was leaning by virtue of a mouthful of White Horse swilled around just before the performance.

I got to meet the controversial chaplain Don Cupitt, at sherry after the last performance. Angela Tilby became a BBC producer and now runs Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge.

Several of the cast, including me, went on to be part of Breadrock, which later became Britain's first and arguably best professional Christian drama company, Riding Lights.