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4 Extra Debut. From Noel Coward to Bobby Vee. Cartoonist, actor and writer Willie Rushton shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley. From 1984.

From Noel Coward to Bobby Vee.

Cartoonist, actor and writer Willie Rushton shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

Willie was a much loved panellist on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's antidote to panel games 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'.

He explains how he came to be one of the magazine founders of Private Eye and recalls the early days of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV's popular weekly satire series ''That Was the Week That Was'.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in August 1984.

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