Since 1980, he has been, in the guise of his alter ego Desmond Olivier Dingle, the artistic director of The National Theatre of Brent. The NTOB's productions include The Charge of the Light Brigade, Wagner's Ring, The Messiah, All The World's a Globe (Montreux Radio award winner) and The Arts and How They Was Done. The NTOB company has included Jim Broadbent as Wallis, and guest-starred such luminaries as Ben Kingsley, Harriet Walter, Juliet Stevenson and Brian Cox.
