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That Was The Week That Was. William Rushton. Credit: BBC
William Rushton

William Rushton

  • English
  • Actor and writer

Press clippings

ISIHAC: how radio's smuttiest show has beaten the censors for 50 years

Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments - and its future.

Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 11th April 2022

Radio Times poll of best radio comedies

Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has come top of a Radio Times list of the greatest radio comedy shows.

British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020

The problem then is whither Willie. What is he for? In Rushton's Illustrated, which is all his own work, he has surrounded himself with excellent character actors (Junkin, Kinnear, Paddick) and the quirky dilapidation of music hall.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 19th February 1980

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