John Sandilands

letters to and from John to editors


Date published: various dates
Publisher: not published publicly

Years after the event, letters to and from editors make hilarious reading.  Although highly talented, John could also be a difficult customer and all too frequently, rubbed editors up the wrong way with the result that they lashed out at him.

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Ballooning


Date published: 1970s
Publisher: No idea where this was published

John was prepared to do almost anything for a story. Here he has a go at hot-air ballooning.

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The Toad Cross Code


Date published: 1980s
Publisher: YOU magazine

John could spin straw into gold, or turn toads into princes, as this article shows.

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Peter Sellers; that is the problem


Date published: April 1969
Publisher: Nova Magazine

Peter Sellers was notoriously difficult to interview but Sandilands managed it ...

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In bed with John Sandilands plus Jilly Cooper, Zandra Rhodes and Peter Cook


Date published: 1984
Publisher: Over21 Magazine

For this issue of Over21 magazine, John appeared on the cover with the above celebrities. It is one of his most intimate and revealing pieces.

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Know the Type


Date published: 1998
Publisher: The Guardian

For about a year, John contributed a weekly column to the Guardian about the well-known estate agents Pratt and Idiot.  Each one is a miniature masterpiece.  Here are two of them.

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Animal poems


Date published: various
Publisher: not published

John had his light moments—and his lighter moments.  This animal alphabet, just done for fun at odd times, shows an Edward Lear-type mischievousness at work.

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The Toad Cross Code


Date published: 1980s
Publisher: YOU magazine

John could spin straw into gold, or turn toads into princes, as this article shows.

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Albert and the Jaguars


Date published: 2000?
Publisher: not published - except on the website

John wrote this clever poem about John (now Lord) Prescott when Prescott was Deputy PM, charting what a long way he had come from his early beginnings as cabin crew on the cross-channel ferry.

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Herogram


Date published: 1985
Publisher: Mail on Sunday

Here is one of the best Herograms John ever received:

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