Driberg throughout his life was a devout Anglo-Catholic ; Wheen suggests that Evelyn Waugh , in '' Brideshead Revisited '' , may have had Driberg in mind when the novel 's protagonist Charles Ryder is warned on arrival at Oxford to " beware of Anglo-Catholics — they 're all sodomites with unpleasant accents . " Driberg was the subject of a play , '' Tom and Clem '' , by Stephen Churchett , which was staged at London 's Aldwych Theatre in April 1997 . The action takes place during Driberg 's brief visit to the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 , and deals with the contrast of compromise , represented by the pragmatic Clement Attlee , and post-war idealism , personified by Driberg . Michael Gambon 's portrayal of Driberg , as " a slovenly , paunchy Bacchus with a mouth that can suddenly gape like a painfully-hooked fish " , won special praise from '' The Times '' critic Benedict Nightingale
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
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