Will Hay

You know, BAFTA winner, I think.

But he co-wrote some of the Will Hay films with Marriott's Edgar.

And so obviously the reason he did Boys in Blue is because it's based on Ask a Policeman with Will Hay that he co-wrote.

um and um and i kind of knew that link and he was one of the first people i interviewed val guest not for any particular i used to interview people just because i wanted to interview them yeah and all sorts of people i got to know the the actor michael ward um the carry-on actor etc who'd been in sort of everything normal you're

preaching you're preaching to the converted this is what i do for a

Some amazing footage now of the Home Guard in Wiltshire testing out a flamethrower drawn along on a trolley where the fire is coming.

It looks like something out of a Will Hay comedy.

It looks like an absolutely disastrous way to happen, but they use it properly.

And they serve an absolutely vital function in this sense, because in testing out this weaponry...

That is incredible.

'Cause he, Marriott Edgar also wrote some of George Formby's films, and Will Hay, he wrote-

Yes

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