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Article: Ewan McGregor leads tributes to Oor Wullie at 65
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- December 30, 2001
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HE'S a national icon, a children's hero, the character Ewan
McGregor would most like to portray on film. His image is even used
as currency in Africa ... and now Oor Wullie is a pensioner.
At 65, the Sunday Post's dungaree-wearing hero is finally
entitled to a free bus pass. But unlike millions of former schoolboy
fans, Wullie hasn't aged.
He is still a ragamuffin with spiky yellow hair and a rusty
bucket, running circles around his Maw and PC Murdoch with his pals
Fat Bob and Wee Eck.
To celebrate Wullie's enduring charm and the genius of his
creator Dudley Dexter Watkins, BBC Radio Scotland has recorded a
special tribute to Scotland's most mischievious pensioner.
The programme, to be ...