Tiny Tim

With his ukelele and his falsetto renditions of pre-Second World War popular songs like Tiptoe through the Tulips, Tiny Tim was an unlikely star, and an even less likely sex symbol.

Yet during the 1960s, he became the darling of the hippie counterculture.

He married three times, most famously live, on US network television, in front of 45 million viewers.

Writer and musician CP Lee tells the story of a very unusual talent and a genuine eccentric, Tiny Tim.

Tiny Tim died aged 64 in 1996.

Producer: Bob Dickinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005.