Philip Barlow Oakes (31 January 1928 – 18 December 2005) was a British journalist, poet and novelist.
Oakes was later expelled from there and finished his education at a grammar school in rural Lancashire.
[1] Oakes was conscripted towards the end of the Second World War and eventually found himself working on a troop newspaper.
Oakes also made regular appearances on the radio programme Stop the Week.
[1] His published works included at least four novels: The God Botherers (André Deutsch 1969, retitled Miracles: genuine cases contact Box 340; a novel John Day 1971 [US]); Experiment at Proto (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1973 [US], André Deutsch 1973 [UK], retitled The Proto Papers Quartet 1974), which describes a scientific project to develop human-primate communications; Cast of Thousands (Victor Gollancz 1976) portraying a libidinous film critic; and the humorous Shopping for Women (André Deutsch 1994) about fetching a female Giant panda from North Korea.