The Jon Pertwee Files
Story Number: 273No of Episodes: 1
Radio 4 Extra (United Kingdom):
First Broadcast: Saturday 6th July 2019
Running Time: 1 hour
Sean Pertwee celebrates his father Jon’s broadcasting career in this special centenary documentary.
Featuring rediscovered archive material, rare interviews and behind the scenes recordings.
From his radio days playing a disreputable postman and a chief petty officer in The Navy Lark, to his TV portrayals of the dandy Doctor Who and the anarchic scarecrow, Worzel Gummidge.