[1] During an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme later in life, he described his childhood growing up in Germany during World War II as "very grim".
[2] During this time Davis made regular appearances on the BBC's live Budget programmes presented by Ian Trethowan.
[3] Davis provided live comment and analysis of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget speech as it was delivered in the House of Commons.
In 1968 William Davis was named editor of the satirical magazine Punch and the rival publication Private Eye dubbed him "Kaiser Bill".
[citation needed] Davis appeared as a contributor on The Pound in Your Pocket, a retrospective series of archive programmes shown on BBC Parliament in 2007.