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Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2021: Michael Amherst on One Foot in the Grave Michael Amherst
Michael Amherst is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. His book Go the Way Your Blood Beats, exploring desire and sexuality, won the 2019 Stonewall Israel Fishman award for nonfiction
Our lives in lockdown – shrunken, claustrophobic, with time to ponder life’s meaning – are perfectly represented in
One Foot in the Grave.
Released on BritBox, when the service launched in November last year, it is darker, yet more poignant than other recent sitcoms. The show, which ran from 1990-2000, follows the lives of Victor and Margaret Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie. Victor is forced into early retirement, replaced as a security guard by an electronic box, rendering him “a lower form of life than a Duracell battery”.