Or I could try and do it in terms of volume with my voice’. Against the fitting backdrop of the King’s Library Tower, home to the Magna Carta and original Beatles lyrics, we began by discussing the book which Williams references in the title of his travel blog: Patrick Lee Fermor’s 'A Time of Gifts', (his blog is entitled 'A Time of GIFs'). I fell down and had to go into hospital for three weeks. Not exactly rich but not poor, either. ¶ I did notice, and I hope you don’t mind me saying this, that so many commentators and interviewers seem to say about you and your work the same batch of adjectives — and I’m not confusing you with the rugby player Liam Williams….

And I’d thought that maybe I would do a podcast about it. Now, after a radio series with the same name, here's a TV version of Ladhood, a semi-autobiographical six-parter in which Williams explores the nature of modern masculinity while putting his own original, dry, distinctive spin on a … They were always self-inflicted either through rage and/or stupidity. I had to pretend to kick a wall, and after a day’s drinking, I missed pretty badly and I really booted it. I hear you are writing a novel? This world just comes to life unexpectedly. The book takes football seriously at its root, and looks at how larger forces drive the sense of allegiance of football-loving individuals — what hidden personal stories make the Beautiful Game beautiful when it can seem so ugly? Titles of artworks ‘Like This’ (2018). ‘Well, thanks. ¶ Why did you decide to blog about it and not do anything more formal with your travels? I like doing stand-up. You talk about your friends and family in the show... do you run things past them first? It wasn’t a context in which he thrived: he recalls an unsuccessful support slot for Micky Flanagan, after which the stadium-courting comic informed him he’d “caught them wrong”. ‘That’s an interesting way to interpret them, and to an extent you are right. ¶ The second series of the BAFTA-nominated ‘Pls Like’ has just been commissioned by the BBC. I spent far too long on it. Something close to laddish idiocy is dominating global politics.”, The lad is something Williams has been thinking about a lot lately. To pitch a text, please email: submissions@iiiimagazine.com The online publication continues all year round, and publishes articles in three broad categories: If your text does not fit into one of the above categories, don't fret, we just need a pitch. And then in the last 10 years, we’ve had the sad lad subcultures, the irony lad.”, Now, Williams argues, the lad is rearing his ugly head in the political classes, with both Donald Trump and Boris Johnson practising “that laddish recklessness and fecklessness.

“That sort of volatility is something that some people now say comedy shouldn’t be, but maybe those settings are a bit more exemplary of the working-class roots of the artform.”, Masculinity may be Ladhood’s dominant theme, but class is the series’ other preoccupation. Well, partly the idea of going travelling like that was to crack on with the novel.

Just got back from three months' travelling in Europe. But the heels were much more serious. Series 2 of your Radio 4 show is coming up. By the standards of most social media self-promoters I’d say it wasn’t popular, but for me, it was the most traffic I’d ever had to my website.