TOM SHARPE DIED YESTERDAY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6nmYL5vhAE&feature=share&list=PL0877EBCA616D9547
The featured series I have posted, Blott on the Landscape was adapted by BBC TV in 1985 and broadcast in six episodes of 50 minutes each. It was scripted by Malcolm Bradbury. They are worth seeing. Take your time.

Sharpe, who was born in London in 1928, died in the coastal town of Llafranc in north-eastern Spain on Thursday.

Scabrous, savage, scatological, writer of high force and low farce, creator and inflator of wayward condoms and threatening sex dolls: Tom Sharpe was the master of situations that couldn't possibly get any more embarrassing, sensitive or tricky, but did. Sharpe was never one for holding back, as his first novel, Riotous Assembly, featuring, among much else, apartheid, an elephant gun, murder, incompetent policemen and interracial lesbianism, triumphantly demonstrated. (...)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-savage-sense-fun

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/06/06/actualidad/1370504260_091037.html