Mike Dilkes is the patron saint of snorers: a clinical beacon guiding us poor souls suffering interrupted sleep, harangued by sharp-elbowed loved ones and the butt of many a joke.

But snoring is not funny. It ruins relationships, destroys careers and, in its most extreme form, it can kill, which is why Dilkes, a consultant surgeon at London’s Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, wants us to wake up and smell the coffee...

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