Comedian Mark Thomas: why I wrote a show about my dad

As a teenager working on my dad's building site, I used to cringe when he blasted opera out to the workers. Now I've written a show about him – in all his grumpy gloryTen years ago, my dad, Colin Alec Todd Thomas, was diagnosed with a disease called progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative and incurable condition that is often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis. He is now nearly blind, can't walk, can barely talk, can't swallow properly, has diabetes and dementia, and last week my mum, h...

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