Jez Butterworth
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446 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Jez Butterworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I remember once they invaded our school, all the kids, like 400 kids, just suddenly overran my infant school and then my junior school.
They'd just do it every so often.
They'd occupy the woods.
You'd get ambushed by them when you were playing games, and it was absolutely terrifying.
Sounds like chaos.
Yeah, my mum was the receptionist at the local...
The local doctors and half the people on the books were from the Traveller's Camp.
So it was like this sort of fascination and threat on your doorstep of these kids who just live by completely different rules.
We had kids in our class who were out of control, but it was just this spirit that was...
absolutely mythical to grow up like around and like leaving your door and going into the woods you would take you know you would take your life in your hands when you're like seven years old so uh it was it was very affecting of a sort of young imagination and then um
you're then sitting in a classroom with a load of seven-year-olds reading Stig of the Dump and, you know, and there's this sort of sense that these characters mean something deeper in your soul, these characters who live outside of society or are outlaws.
So I think it was more that that I was, like, tuned into and never stopped being fascinated by much more than anything going on politically.
I think that most of the political crossover was pure chance because I don't really...
pay that much attention to that.
It's never really turned me on.
When I was writing my first play that ended up being on at the Royal Court, a play called Mojo, in 1995.
In 1994, I moved to a village called Pusey in Wiltshire.
And that's the model for Flintock.
I was 24 years old.
There was a man who lived there called Mickey Lay, who was kind of one of the few models for Rooster.
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