Willo the Wisp beech wood in Oxfordshire, near the director's home. Kenneth Williams provided voices for all of the characters. The principal narrator, Willo the Wisp, was a blue, floating creature drawn as a caricature of him, while the name refers to the ghostly light will-o'-the-wisp from folklore. The other main characters were Arthur the caterpillar (as a gruff cockney), Mavis Cruet, a plump, clumsy fairy with an erratic, magic wand, and the principal antagonist, Evil Edna, a witch in the form of a walking, talking television set who could zap people with her aerials. Other characters included Carwash, a snooty bespectacled cat
The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately (TNPFAI) was a cult BBC comedy of the 1970s, now almost completely forgotten. The programme starred Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey, David Gooderson and Jonathan Cecil. The basic story revolved around a comedy factory, Allied British Comedy with the manager CMD (Wallis) and secretary/announcer Iris (Coffey). Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the late night Friday slot, as a summer replacement for "Week Ending". "Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead" occupied the slot as well. A running joke was that Cecil, an actor with a very distinctive