ill put you in my diary comedian kenneth williams was known to threaten on occasion although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime here at last in one spellbinding volume are four million words of it for more than forty years from his sixteenth birthday until the eve of his unexpected death in 1988 the beloved actor and outrageous carry on star kenneth williams kept a candid diary devastatingly honest about himself he is equally unsparing in his verdicts on his fellow man in his descriptions of tony hancock maggie smith joe orton and countless others his waspish sense of humour love of anecdote and ear for dialogue are given full rein malicious hilarious and harrowing the kenneth williams diaries are a unique portrait of one of britains most popular and most misunderstood performers