Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero
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Did He Have a Cat?
How did he become the subject of a pantomime? Yeah, it's an interesting one. And I always say to people that the important thing you need to know is if you've seen a panto, you need to find out about the real man. Oh, was there a real man? Yes, there was a real man.Yeah, and here's the book. But more than that, I think the pantomime is very interesting for a number of reasons. It does give us an insight which we both, we discussed at the beginning of the podcastThat he is actually saying to people, look, you know, I've done that. Or what we find people saying
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