John Wilson
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3,430 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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Now I want to tell happy stories and not stories about pent up rage or grief.
So I don't want to tell those stories anymore.
I want to tell stories that make people feel warm and fuzzy, basically, instead of leaving the place in floods of tears.
What sort of cultural upbringing did you have as a child and cultural education?
We lived in the depths of Dorset and with very little access to anything apart from television.
And my mother was really good at sort of taking us to places and she would take me to places.
shows that she wanted to see, maybe in Bath or in Bournemouth or wherever.
When did you first start thinking that acting might be something you could do?
I think I was about four.
Right, OK.
And I would go down to the village shop when I was about eight, convinced that the lady running the village shop, Mrs Vendyback, wouldn't recognise me because I had a headscarf on and dressed as the Queen or something.
And I was going down to the village shop.
You were already playing characters?
Yeah, already playing characters.
I must have been insufferable, actually.
When you started thinking, actually, I want to act, were there particular actors that you emulated or who were your favourites?
I mean, who were the role models?
I remember seeing French films, I don't know how, it must have been very late at night, I shouldn't have been awake, on television and seeing Anoukéme in Anoukéme and thinking, oh, that is what I want to do.
I want to run along beaches in Macintoshes and look like Anoukéme and be, you know... But you've had such a lifelong association with France.
Do you think it goes back to seeing those early films, Anoukéme?
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