Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward story review - fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great

Barnaby Thompson's well-researched documentary highlights the contradictions of the sparkling playwright's life He was the epitome of a certain kind of urbane, aristocratic Englishness. But Noël Coward grew up in relative poverty, in his mother's boarding house. He was famously erudite but an autodidact (he left school at nine to earn a living as a child performer). He was both a satirist and a sentimentalist; a heart-throb who was covertly gay. This very enjoyable and informative documentary, ...