Minster FM in the UK offers an item titled: “Brother Walter Willman was a hermit who lived a solitary life in All Saints Church in North street in York.”
The summary: “An obscure English religious hermit was interviewed by BBC in 1961. He had one moment of fame when BBC TV’s Alan Whicker came to meet him in 1961 for the Tonight programme, a sort of One Show of the period.The film has just been put on the BBC Archive Facebook page. [Although the Minster FM item represented by the URL includes the five-minute video.] He had lived on his own since the 1930s in a tiny room and was a rare example of a religious recluse.
It’s thought that he died in the 1970s.”
The BBC interview is available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098q0zn
URL: https://www.minsterfm.com/news/local/3029814/video—-meet-the-hermit-who-lived-in-york/