Jez Butterworth

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446 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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He was, you know, he was banned from every pub in the village and he was a deeply unpleasant man, actually.

And I was just trouble on a stick, you know, and he was a sort of a painter and decorator and a philanderer.

And I only had a couple of encounters with him and it really made an impression on me.

And I remember on St.

George's Day...

meeting him once outside the pub and him talking to me about, um, England and all that kind of stuff.

And he didn't really have much of a, much of an interest to take on.

It was basically racist.

But, um, but I remember thinking that there was just something about that crossover that, um, felt to me to be dramatic.

Even then I thought there's, there's something here.

There's a, there's a, there's a drama here.

I think something here just sort of found its way in.

They did a, they did a, uh,

They still have a festival in Pusey, but it's an autumn festival.

And I remember once going along and Mickey was there just causing trouble all day long and trying to smash the thing up.

They had a parade there where the old May Queen had to give her crown to the new May Queen, even though it was in October.

They'd waited until then to do it.

And when she handed it over, she burst into tears and ran out of the room.

And something about her reign coming to an end,

that this was her last day as the queen just went in.

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