Julian Dutton

Julian Dutton is a writer and performer whose work has won a British Comedy Award, a BAFTA, and a Radio Academy Gold Award. He is the co-creator, co-writer & co-star of BBC TV's comedy series 'Pompidou' starring Matt Lucas, he co-created, wrote & performed in BBC1's hit comedy series 'The Big Impression,' and his TV sitcom 'Scoop' ran for three series of 39 episodes. Born in London, he has toured as an actor throughout the UK & Europe and as a comedian and impressionist has appeared in the West End supporting many of Britain's top comics like Harry Hill and Al Murray. He has written & performed in more than two hundred radio comedy shows for the BBC and is the author of nine books ranging from travel and humour to history and fiction - the best-selling 'Shakespeare's Journey Home: a Traveller's Guide through Elizabethan England,' 'Keeping Quiet: Visual Comedy in the Age of Sound,' ('A brilliant history of modern slapstick,' - Harry Hill), 'The Secret Diary of Samuel Pepys, aged ten & three quarters,' and 'Are We All Here?' - a collection of humorous articles, some of which first appeared in the Independent on Sunday. Most recently he has published 'Water Gypsies: a history of life on Britain's Rivers and Canals,' for The History Press, based on his childhood growing up on a Thames houseboat, 'The Parade's Gone By: everyday life in Britain in the twentieth century,' 'My Town, My Rules, - the Diary of Britain's Greatest Councillor,' based on his cult comic creation on twitter, Councillor Battley, and 'Old Man Out,' a fantastical comic thriller. He combines writing books and scripts with touring the UK in a sell-out show about the actor John Le Mesurier, Do You Think That's Wise? and performing his impressions shows aboard cruise-ships.