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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib, Episode 1

Master raconteur Kenneth Williams offers entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions.

Master raconteur Kenneth Williams offers entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions. Recorded at BBC Pebble Mill in 1982.

Kenneth Williams presents the first of a compendium of entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions.  

Beginning with the tale of his trip to Lichfield - the literary home of Samuel Johnson - the master raconteur shares tales of historical people and places. 

Williams winds his way through stories of writers, buildings, the death of Thomas Cromwell and the funding of wars - and touches on the monarchy, the legal system and anecdotes of Prime Ministers past. 

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Pebble Mill.

Producer: Michael Ford 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1982.

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