Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.88
Review "Round the Horne": The Very Best Episodes: v. 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-07-25
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50
Review The Very Best of Ken Dodd: Vol 1 / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2005-07-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.94
Review Off the Wall: Live (Jethro) / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2005-07-22
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50
Review Back to the Front: Vol 2 / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99
Review The "Good Life": Mutiny No. 3 (Radio Collection) / John Esmonde & Bob Larbey:
Creator: Ronnie Barker
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.55
Review The Two Ronnies, It's Goodnight from ME... (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tony Hancock
Publication date: 2001-11-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £34.99
Price: £20.99
Review Hancock's Half Hour: Collector's Edition (Series Three) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:When Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created Hancock's Half Hour-their first big hit before Steptoe and Son-they needed a supporting cast, and their choices were inspired. Sid James became the quintessential shifty crook, Bill Kerr played Tony Hancock's best friend while Moira Lister became his girlfriend, and as Kenneth Williams intoned a variety of authority-voices-police, magistrates, etc. -another comic star was born. Out of the 16 original programmes from the period under review, the BBC managed to lose six-culpable carelessness-but among the extant 10 there are outright gems, some of which will be unfamiliar even to fans, and many of which would today be banned as hopelessly un-PC. Viz Hancock's cheery greeting: "Morning Charlie. Working? Oh, of course you don't need to, with 28 children!" Or his observation-of some sluggish British workmen building a house-that he's glad they've been provided with shovels complete with arm-rests. Asked for his own address, he replies "I've just moved. They pulled down my house to build a slum". Relayed cold, such comments may not even raise a smile: Hancock's magic was all in the telling, and in the momentum he built up, as in his Monte Carlo rally programme, in which signposts were turned round and bridges blown up. One of the nicest sketches evolves out of him being left to do the housework like Cinderella, while everyone else troops off to the ball. [+]When he died, a victim of depression, in Australia in 1968, Britain lost something irreplaceable: this five-CD set, with its accompanying booklet, makes a splendid memento. The next batch of releases is eagerly awaited. -Betty Tadman.
Authors
- David Ramsden
- Harry Venning
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.18
Review Clare in the Community: Series 3 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.98
Review The News Quiz: Hold the Front Page (BBC Audio) / The News Quiz:
Publication date: 2005-10-10
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.06
Review 1966 and All That / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Authors
- Spike Milligan
- Larry Stephens
- Eric Sykes
Publication date: 1996-05-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.25
Review The Goon Show Classics: And There's More Where That Came From! (Previously Volume 5) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Miriam Margolyes
Publication date: 1996-11-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £5.00
Price: £3.98
Review Blackadder's Christmas Carol: Includes Comic Relief Blackadder - The Cavalier Years (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-07-25
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98
Review Jethro: Stark Raving Bonkers / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2005-02-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £59.99
Price: £35.99
Review "Beyond Our Ken", Collector's Edition Series 2 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Martin Freeman
Publication date: 2006-06-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Macmillan Audio Books:
Authors
- David Mitchell
- Robert Webb
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.94
Review Mitchell and Webb in Daydream Believers / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £44.99
Price: £29.48
Review Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:When Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created Hancock's Half Hour-their first big hit before Steptoe and Son-they needed a supporting cast, and their choices were inspired. Sid James became the quintessential shifty crook, Bill Kerr played Tony Hancock's best friend while Moira Lister became his girlfriend, and as Kenneth Williams intoned a variety of authority-voices-police, magistrates, etc. -another comic star was born. Out of the 16 original programmes from the period under review, the BBC managed to lose six-culpable carelessness-but among the extant 10 there are outright gems, some of which will be unfamiliar even to fans, and many of which would today be banned as hopelessly un-PC. Viz Hancock's cheery greeting: "Morning Charlie. Working? Oh, of course you don't need to, with 28 children!" Or his observation-of some sluggish British workmen building a house-that he's glad they've been provided with shovels complete with arm-rests. Asked for his own address, he replies "I've just moved. They pulled down my house to build a slum". Relayed cold, such comments may not even raise a smile: Hancock's magic was all in the telling, and in the momentum he built up, as in his Monte Carlo rally programme, in which signposts were turned round and bridges blown up. One of the nicest sketches evolves out of him being left to do the housework like Cinderella, while everyone else troops off to the ball. [+]When he died, a victim of depression, in Australia in 1968, Britain lost something irreplaceable: this five-CD set, with its accompanying booklet, makes a splendid memento. The next batch of releases is eagerly awaited. -Betty Tadman.
Publication date: 2004-03-15
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.48
Review Last of the Summer Wine: Four Original BBC Television Episodes - Starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Brian Wilde v. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Dawn French
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.72
Review "Vicar of Dibley": WITH The Window and the Weather AND Elections AND Animals AND Engagement Vol 3 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-02-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.85
Review The Good Life", Backs to the Wall: No. 2 (BBC Radio Collection) / John Esmonde & Bob Larbey:
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