Growing up in England, my brother and I had a running joke about old people who had been at the job for 35 years. We said it in a toothless sort of way. Life catches up with you; I still have teeth, but I find myself rapidly approaching the point when I will have been doing my one-man shows for 35 years myself, ever since I gave up my stage career. That career was largely one show – Wait a Minim! – a musical revue from South Africa that I co-wrote and which ran for seven years on four continents, including a year on Broadway. Now I have created eight different one-man shows I perform for school audiences. Two of them are ageless – About Africa and The Great Briton – and can be done for adults or kindergartners, it makes no difference. The others are aimed at the elementary school level, and the most popular one of these is called Your Character Counts. It was the birth of my daughter, Sarah, that inspired me to become a songwriter. Jim Henson got hold of my first album and used several of my songs on his Muppet Show. (I still get 5