FEATURE BY JEM ROBERTS
Ouirky Who vignettes have become a tradition for the BBC’s two charity telethons – Comic Relief and Children in Need – but by 1999 they seemed like they might have become a thing of the past. Richard Curtis, patron saint of Comic Relief, relied on talented backroom staff to make each biennial Red Nose Day’s entertainment inspire the people of Britain to reach for their credit cards, and chief among these bods was TV producer Sue Vertue, daughter of legendary producer Beryl and wife of then celebrated farceur Steven Moffat.