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Just William - Live!. Martin Jarvis. Copyright: Jarvis and Ayres Productions
Just William - Live!

Just William - Live!

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2001 - 2019
  • 12 episodes (6 series)

Martin Jarvis performs Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live on-stage in front of audiences.

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Series 3, Episode 2 - Aunt Arabelle in Charge

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In Aunt Arabelle in Charge, William and his faithful Outlaws (Ginger, Douglas and Henry) encounter a strangely complacent six year-old who is staying in the village. This odious child turns out to be the hugely famous Anthony Martin, subject of his mother's best-selling books and poems.

The Outlaws need to redeem themselves in the admittedly short-sighted eyes of Ginger's journalist aunt. She, equally, is desperate to secure an exclusive interview with the child star. It's soon clear that this wonderfully constructed story is a brilliant parody of - who else - A.A. Milne's Christopher Robin.

The packed Winchester audience understood this at once. In Jarvis' inhabitation of both the smug infant and Ginger's aunt, the comedy is unremitting.

Can William sort this out and, incidentally, give the horrific child his just deserts? Blackmail is the answer, of course.

Broadcast details

Date
Sunday 30th December 2012
Time
7:15pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

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