JEREMY NICHOLAS started acting, playing the piano and writing comic verse when he was at infant school. He states that he has not really progressed much since then, having spent nearly all his professional life doing exactly the same. Nurtured on a diet of Gilbert & Sullivan, Noël Coward, Flanders & Swann, and Tom Lehrer with lots of Lewis Carroll, John Betjeman, Marriot Edgar and Harry Graham thrown into the mix, his love of rhyme has been a lifelong passion. WHAT LARKS is a wide-ranging collection of some of the poems and song lyrics Jeremy has written over the past four decades, most of them composed under the influence of panic and looming deadlines.