THE late, great humourist Miles Kington had a list of things in Britain no one ever says a bad word about—steam engines, Morecambe and Wise, the Settle-Carlisle Railway among them. Were he around today, Kington would surely have added the names Wallace and Gromit to his list. The hapless Plasticine heroes are so universal it surprised nobody when The Queen told schoolchildren that the cheese-fixated duo are her husband’s ‘favourite people in the world’.
‘Wallace and Gromit have been around all my life, they give everyone a lovely warm, nostalgic feeling,’ enthuses Emma Stirling-Middleton, the curator of an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, London W1, devoted to the dynamic duo’s second screen outing,. Regarded by critics as one of the pinnacles of British cinema, the film
