The chequered life of Clarissa Dickson Wright, the larger of the two stars on the eccentric cooking show Two Fat Ladies.

Short and chequered and full of trouble as was his life, it is amazing what an immense amount of literary work he accomplished.

But even the faults which chequered his character told for him with the middle classes.

They are unconsciously tinged and imbued with its picturesque and chequered incident, as was the great singer of Israel.