Great Lives - Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis
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"It's absolutely joyous, one of the highlights of my career!" Peter Oborne on being joined by Martin Jarvis, the man who brings Just William to life.
Journalist Oborne is nominating both William Brown and his creator, Richmal Crompton. She wrote 39 multi-million selling books, and her delight in William is clear to hear in the archive. Other contributors include her biographer, Mary Cadogan, and her niece, Richmal Ashbee. But it's the brilliance of Martin Jarvis's impersonations of William, Ginger and the gang that brings this programme to life. Plus the interplay between Peter Oborne and Matthew Parris.
"Do you think William would have been Brexit?"
"I don't think there's any evidence."
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019.
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