Raymond Briggs is the rare artist who has created soaring and heartbreaking works for both children and adults almost in equal measure. For over forty years he has given us gentle, poetic and wrenching stories, including the Christmas children's classics The Snowman and Father Christmas, but also the nonfiction story of his parents Ethel And Ernest, and the acclaimed anti-war parable When the Wind Blows.
In this episode we take a look and four wonderful comics that put on display Briggs' talent and empathy, and the way he harnesses both in his tragicomic, half melancholy-half silly tales of the a different working class.

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Father Christmas: https://amzn.to/2QzfvTG
Gentleman Jim: https://amzn.to/3n6QawF
When the Wind Blows: https://amzn.to/32AWAe1
Ethel and Ernest: https://amzn.to/2OX3Ayp

The Snowman: https://amzn.to/3srz3qe
Father Christmas Goes on Holiday: https://amzn.to/3x3PNav
Fungus the Bogeyman: https://amzn.to/3tvCtJK

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00:00 Who is Raymond Briggs?
01:08 Why is he special?
02:11 The 4 Comics
04:11 Main Titles
04:22 Father Christmas/ working man
09:47 Gentleman Jim/ no country for highwaymen
13:26 When the Wind Blows/ whose line is it?
18:34 Ethel and Ernest/ ordinary extraordinary
22:10 The not-secret charm of Raymond Briggs
25:24 More Raymond Briggs?