WHO IS ROGER WILMUT, ANYWAY?
If you found this page by searching on the name ‘Wilmut’ you may be looking for information about Dolly, the famous cloned sheep; well, she was the responsibility of my cousin, Ian Wilmut, and she certainly made him famous. My own claim to fame is fortunately more modest, resting on six books about (mostly) broadcast comedy – more about them on a separate page (and I have written a separate page on the history of the Wilmut family) I was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1942. My parents moved there when they were married in 1940 and my father, who had been teaching in Caterham, Surrey, got a post at King Edward the Sixth School in Stratford. My mother was delighted because she was a keen theatregoer, and as a result of all this I saw many of the Shakespeare productions at the theatre – all of them from the late 1950s to about the early 1970s. I went to Warwick School from 1953 to 1961; the school was chartered by King Edward the Confessor and could be described as a minor pu
