Just William: A Second BBC Radio Collection - Richmal Crompton

Category: Children, Classic, Humor
Language: English
Keywords: Douglas Ginger Henry (the Outlaws) Violet Elizabeth

Written by Richmal Crompton
Read by Martin Jarvis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 06-07-18
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

William and the Outlaws…there back!

A second wonderful collection of Just William stories, selected and read by Martin Jarvis.
Richmal Crompton’s stories featuring irrepressible schoolboy William Brown have been firm favourites with both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks usually end in disaster - for his harassed elders at least.

With friends Ginger, Douglas and Henry (the Outlaws) and the angelic thorn in his side, the lisping Violet Elizabeth Bott, William has rightly joined the literary and radio immortals.

P.S. I love Violet Elizabeth

Richmal Crompton, who wrote the original Just William stories, was born in Lancashire in 1890. In all, thirty-eight William books were published, the last one in 1970, after Richmal Crompton’s death. Martin Jarvis, who has adapted the stories in this book for younger readers, first discovered Just William when he was nine years old. He made his first adaptation of a William story for BBC radio in 1973 and since then his broadcast readings have become classics in their own right. Martin is an award-winning actor who has appeared in numerous stage plays, television series and films.

Martin Jarvis, who has been hailed as ‘the wizard of the talking book’ by The Daily Telegraph, has made the voice of William his own, and this collection of 54 laugh-out-loud stories will delight long-standing fans and first-time listeners alike.

The stories in this collection include:
That Boy
The Bishop’s Handkerchief
William and Uncle George
The Haunted House
William and St Valentine
April Fool’s Day
Not Much
The Cure
William’s Wonderful Plan
The Outlaws and the Penknife
William the Reformer
William’s New Year’s Day
Aunt Florence and the Green Woodpecker
The Plan That Failed
William and the Begging Letter
A Question of Exchange
William and the Temporary History Teacher
The Outlaws and the Tramp
A Few Dogs and William
The Outlaws and the Missionary
William the Good
William and the Young Man
William and the Spy
William and the Badminton Racket
William Turns Over a New Leaf
William and Dear Little Peter
William and the Waxwork Prince
William and the White Cat
William and Photography
The Great Detective
The Fete - and Fortune
The Weak Spot
The Outlaws Go a-Mumming
William’s Double Life
William to the Rescue
William the Film Star
William the Rat Lover
William the Showman
William and the Monster
William the Persian
The New Game
William and the Love Nest
The Cat and the Mouse
Waste Paper Wanted
William the Globe Trotter
William and the Prize Pig
A Present from William
A Night of Mysteries
William and the Chinese God
William and the League of Perfect Love
Fireworks Strictly Prohibited
William the Psychiatrist
William Joins the Waits
Violet Elizabeth Takes Control
William - the Dear Little Boysie
William’s Brilliant Plan
The Outlaws and Aunt Jo
Violet Elizabeth’s Special Party

These are so much fun! Not my rip, my thanks to a friend for this treat.