Following up on the unexpected contact I’d had from Brian Hilling of Spitting Image…
…I also wrote to Bill Dare:
Bill Dare 28 December 1993
Spitting Image
17-19 Plumber’s Row
London
E1 1EQ
Dear Bill
SONGS
I am writing on the advice of puppeteer Brian Hilling, who saw the enclosed song “Domestic Fuel” in News Revue and took a shine to it.
I have written a great deal for News Revue since your Giles Pilbrow kindly put me in touch with them many moons ago. Spitting Image gave me a great deal of encouragement in my early days of writing, and I feel that I have been somewhat remiss in losing touch with you.
I have now built up a large portfolio of material and would like to meet with you to explore possibilities of using or adapting my material to suit your needs.
Yours sincerely
Ian Harris
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cc:Brian Hilling
Nothing came of it, meeting-wise. I’m not sure I even got a reply, but I do have a file of incoming correspondence, including some from Spitting Image, which absolutely needs to be trawled and scanned at some point.