William Boot
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William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel Scoop.
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[edit] Character
Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the Daily Beast. He is then sent abroad as a foreign correspondent to the fictional African state of Ishmaelia which is on the brink of a civil war, having been mistaken for a war reporter. Although he is completely inept, he accidentally gets the 'scoop' of the title.
[edit] Inspiration for character
It has been suggested that Waugh based the character of William Boot on his own experiences and on the legendary journalist Bill Deedes who was a junior reporter in Addis Ababa.
[edit] Television portrayals
- Michael Maloney played William Boot in a 1987 British television movie entitled Scoop, produced by LWT.
- Harry Worth played the character in a 1972 BBC television series, which was an adaptation of the novel scripted by Barry Took.
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