 At Cambridge he organised cabarets for the Footlights Society and in 1956 wrote a musical about Regency Brighton titled "The First Resort".His contemporaries included Derek Jacobi, Peter Cook, Michael Frayn and Ian McKellen, and he was also a member of the Marlowe Society, performing in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II", which was broadcast on the Third Programme in 1958 with Jacobi in the title role.That year he had already gained a BBC general traineeship, and his early career at the BBC was as a foreign correspondent (Drummond spoke fluent French and Russian).