Andrew Doyle: A Satirist, Writer, and Doctor of Renaissance English Poetry

Stephen Blackwood: Andrew Doyle is a satirist, writer and doctor of Renaissance English poetry. He says he was all set to be an academic but became disillusioned with academia after finishing his doctoral thesis at Oxford University. After moving to London where he started putting on plays and writing comedy things mostly, he gradually drifted away from academia that way. "I'd be like the professor in Uncle Vanya - I want to go and do some stuff for myself"