Several of the novels were read for television for the BBC's series Jackanory, starting with Agaton Sax and the Max Brothers in 1972, with Kenneth Williams as the storyteller intercut with the illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies.
The audio of the books was originally recorded by Kenneth Williams.
He abandoned his first profession of acting, largely at the urging of Kenneth Williams, to become a successful playwright.
He reprised his role as Kenneth Horne in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! - a BBC film drama about the life and death of the legendary British comedy icon Kenneth Williams.
John Williams | Robin Williams | Robbie Williams | Tennessee Williams | Williams College | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Ted Williams | Vanessa L. Williams | William Carlos Williams | John Kenneth Galbraith | Hank Williams, Jr. | Hank Williams | Kenneth Branagh | Don Williams | Williams | Kenneth McClintock | Shirley Williams | Lucinda Williams | Andy Williams | Victoria Williams | Serena Williams | Kenneth Grahame | Brian Williams | Vanessa Williams | Esther Williams | Paul Williams | Bert Williams | Rowan Williams | Hype Williams | Wendy O. Williams |
Artists who began their careers in the Central Pool of Artists, and later the CSE, included Kenneth Williams, Spike Milligan, Stanley Baxter, Ken Platt and Peter Nichols.
Ewan Bailey (born 1966) is an actor, writer and voice artist located in Central London, best known for writing and performing in The Sunday Format, BBC Radio 4's satire of British Sunday newspapers, Funland, BBC Three's darker than dark comedy set in the English seaside town of Blackpool, HBO's recent epic series Rome and the recent, highly acclaimed bio-pic of "Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!".
They include: Tom Stoppard, Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov, Judi Dench, Alan Bennett, Denis Healey, David Attenborough, Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Williams, Douglas Adams, John Mortimer, Neil Kinnock, Katharine Whitehorn, Malcolm Muggeridge and Lord George-Brown.
The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, announcer Douglas Smith with music by Jill Day, Edwin Braden, the Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Revue Orchestra.