Martin Jarvis turns in a fantastic performance as William in the BBC Audio CD series of Richmail Compton's 'Just William'. He gets the tone of hard-done-by William Brown just perfect and his rants against the unjustness of the world keep our kids and us in stiches on car journeys long or short.
In 'Home For The Holidays' William holds forth on diverse areas of life, which he believes he can significantly improve upon for all concerned. Topics range from how life would be improved if we were more like lions where Aunts were concerned 'Lions have Aunts all right, it's just that if they meet them they are as like as not to fight them.'
William also believes filling Christmas Stockings with nuts and oranges and things is 'tantamount to cheatin', New Year should be moved further away from Christmas so you might have forgiven everyone for the terrible Christmas presents before having to make your resolutions and fathers should be sent to school during the holidays so they are more prepared to avenge the wrongs done to their sons by teachers as they would have suffered just the same.
Classic stuff.
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