Early Life
Burton grew up in Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and after attending Langtree School, Woodcote, and The Henley College, Henley-on-Thames, went on to study History at the University of York, where he was a contemporary of Harry Enfield. It was Enfield who advised him to go along to the open meetings for BBC Radio 4’s Week Ending.
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