Nearest and dearest

[smouse]

Yes I'm still stuck on several and its driving me mad

B B & P P - butt of many a snape, I mean snide, joke

I have got Billy Bunter in my head and it wont go away but if it is that who is P P and if it isnt Bunter what is it?

 

Also

S H and J T she has reminisced recently at length about him

 

O O Mayfair's cat killer

[greenfingers]

SH and JT = Sheila Hancock and John Thaw.

( Sheila Hancock has recently written a book about their marriage.)

[smouse]

Thanks - once you get John Travolta in your mind its hard to remove him!

[jennymac]

Bernard Bresslaw played Private Popplewell in the very old series on TV The Army game.  But if it is comics there was a character called Pansy Potter.

[swinton1]

Could it be Penelope Pitstop & the Bully Brothers?

[incognito]

BB &PP = probably Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears...
The reference being to Snape Maltings where Benjamin Britten founded his music festival