It's easy to condemn Oliver Reed for the squandered talent and drunken antics, but the genius of this one-man show is to make you love him a little bit. Reed’s father dismissed him as a dunce ...

But it was the nude wrestling scene with Alan Bates in the 1969 film Women in Love that started the wave of publicity that later threatened to engulf Reed. 'I don't punch people any more' His ...